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Galina Borisova Hale

Department of Economics
Yale University

28 Hillhouse Ave. Room 308
New Haven, CT 06511

fax: (203) 432-2128
phone: (203) 432-3562
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galina.hale@yale.edu

CURRENT APPOINTMENT
2002-  Assistant Professor. Department of Economics.
Yale University

VISITING POSITIONS
2004  Institute for International Integrated Studies (IIIS), Trinity College Dublin, visiting scholar (summer)
2003, 2004, 2005  Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Friday visiting scholar

RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Finance (F3), Open Economy Macro (F4), Economic History, Applied Econometrics

EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D. Economics. UC Berkeley.
1996 M.A. Economics (Cum Laude). New
Economics School, Moscow, Russia.
1996 B.A. Economics (Cum Laude). Moscow State University, Russia.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research
2000 Consultant, The World Bank Research Department
1998, 2001-2002 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Teaching
2002 Primary Instructor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1997-2001 Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
1999 Visiting Lecturer. New Economic School.
Moscow, Russia
Consulting and other
1996 Consultant.
Economic Expert Group. Ministry of Finance of Russian Federation. Moscow, Russia.
1995-1996 Chief Editor of Analytical Financial Weekly Review. Analytical department. Prime News Agency.
Moscow, Russia.
1993-1995 Media report writer on dishonest financial organizations.  Confederation of Consumer Rights Protection. 
Moscow, Russia.
1990-1991, 1992-1993 Economist.  Project Analysis Consulting Company.  
Moscow, Russia.
Outreach
March 2002, Invited lecture "An Update on Russian Economic Development," at Contra Costa Jewish Community Center.
1991-1996, Volunteer lecturer at School for Economics and Mathematics, Department of Economics,
Moscow State University.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Flight to Quality: Investor Risk Tolerance and the Spread of Emerging Market Crises,” with B.Eichengreen and A.Mody, in S.Claessens and K.Forbes eds. International Financial Contagion. Kluwer, 2001.
“Lessons from Russian 1998 Financial Crisis,” UC
Berkeley Center for Slavic and East European Studies Newsletter, Spring 2001, Vol.18, No.1.
“World Experience in Fighting High Inflation,”
Vestnik Moscow State University #3, 1996 (in Russian) .

WORKING PAPERS
3. "The Decision to Firs Enter the Public Bond Market: The Role of Firm Reputation, Finding Choices and Bank Relationships" (with Joao Santos, submitted)
2. "Courage to Capital? A Model of the Effects of Rating Agencies on Sovereign Debt Roll-over" (with Mark Carlson, submitted)
1. "Bonds or Loans? The Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals," Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1403, 2003. (revise and resubmit)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION
2005
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Workshop: "
Firms in Emerging Markets", May 20, 2005.(4)
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, March 21-23, 2005.(2)
2004
VII Workshop in International Economics and Finance at Universidad T.Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 10-13, 2004.(2)
LACEA 9th annual meeting, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 4-6, 2004.(2)
7th Annual Conference of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, October 15-16, 2004. (Discussant)
Dartmouth Summer Camp in International Economics, July 8-10, 2004.(2)
2003

CEPR 6th Conference of the Analysis of International Capital Markets RTN, Rome, December 12-13, 2003. (Discussant)
LACEA 8th annual meeting, Puebla, Mexico, October 9-11, 2003.(1)
NBER Summer Institute, International Finance and Monetary group, July 14-18, 2003. (1)
"The Impact of Globalization on the Nation-State from Above: The IMF and the WB", Yale, April 2003
. (Discussant)

2002

New Economic School conference on "The State of Economics and of Transition", Moscow, Russia, December 2002(1)

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
2005: University of Washington, Seattle (3)

2004: Yale University;
Institute for International Integrated Studies (IIIS), Trinity College Dublin (2)
2003: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2); University of Connecticut, Storrs (1)

2002: Bank for International Settlements (Basel, Switzerland); Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve; Boston College; Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; George Washington University; HEC Montreal; International Monetary Fund; Michigan State University; Stockholm Institute for Transitional Economics at Stockholm School of Economics; UC Davis; UC Santa Barbara; UC Santa Cruz; UC San Diego; University of Houston; Yale University (1)
2001:
University of California, Berkeley (1)
1999: University of California, Berkeley (1)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Executive editor: Journal of Restructuring Finance
Referee for:
Economic Inquiry, European Economic Review, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Restructuring Finance, Review of International Economics, NSF.

TEACHING
Graduate: International Finance (Yale University, 2002, 2003, 2005)
Undergraduate: International Monetary Theory and Policy (Yale University, 2003, 2005)

ADVISING
Principal advisor for:
Jose Rossi  (exp.2005)
Dissertation committee member for:

Borja Gracia (exp. 2005), Bernardo Guimaraes (2004, LSE), Sainan Jin (2004, Beijing University), Gerard McDonald (2004, McKenzie Co.)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2004 Social Science Faculty Research Fund award.

2003 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization research grant.
2002 Berkeley Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Dissertation Write-up Grant.
2000 UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.
1999 Continuing Student Fellowship, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley.
1999 Berkeley Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Summer Research Grant.
1996 First-year Fellowship, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley.
1996 Don Patinkin Memorial Award for best master’s thesis, New Economic School.

1995 Russian Chamber of Commerce “Best Law or Economics Student” Award.
1995
Moscow State University “Best Student” Award.

OTHER INFORMATION
Affiliations: American Economics Association, CSWEP, LACEA, Cowles Foundation (Yale), Economic Growth Center (Yale), International Center for Finance (Yale)
Languages: Russian, English, French
Citizenship status:
US Citizen
Hobbies: ice skating, music, outdoors, travel