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Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Ilene Grabel

Education

PhD, University of Massachusetts
MA, University of Massachusetts
BA, Queens College

Profile

Ilene Grabel, PhD, is an Economist, Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and Co-Director of the MA program in Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration at the Josef Korbel School.  She was designated the University Lecturer for 2011-12, and the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 2005-2006. Grabel lectured at the Cambridge University Advancement Programme on Rethinking Development Economics since its founding. She has been a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts since 2007. Grabel has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Economic Development (UNCTAD)/Group of 24, the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research and with ActionAID and the NGO coalition, "New Rules for Global Finance."

She has published widely on financial policy and crises; the political economy of international capital flows to the developing world; the relationship between financial liberalization and macroeconomic performance in developing countries; central banking; exchange rate regimes; remittances; and, most recently, the normalization of capital controls and the effect of the global financial crisis on policy space for development. Her research has been published in numerous edited books and in academic journals such as Economia Informa, Cambridge Journal of Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Feminist Economics, International Review of Applied Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economics Journal, and Journal of Economic Issues. Grabel is co-author (with Ha-Joon Chang) of Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Policy Manual (London: Zen Books, 2004; U.S. distributor: Palgrave Macmillan, second printing in 2005; translations in Korean, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Tamil, Malayalam and Bahasa/Indonesian. Grabel also blogs on international finance and financial governance for the TripleCrisis.

Research and Expertise

Political economy of international finance; political economy of financial reform in developing countries; financial crises: causes, macroeconomic consequences, and preventative policies; international private capital flows; central banking and exchange rate regimes; macroeconomic policy options for developing economies; financial governance; IMF and World Bank.

Courses

INTS 4320: International Monetary Relations
INTS 4355: Financial Systems and Economic Development
INTS 4357: Advanced Issues in the Political Economy of Monetary Relations
INTS 3600: Undergraduate International Monetary Relations

Professor Ilene Grabel
  • igrabel@du.edu
  • 303.871.2546
  • 164 Sie Cheou Kang Center, Ben M. Cherrington Hall, first floor
  • Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
    • 2201 South Gaylord Street
    • Denver , CO 80208 USA
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