NBER profile: Joshua Aizenmann.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief Article

Joshua Aizenman is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment and a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy and M.A. in Economics from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and his Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Aizenman joined the faculty at UCSC in 2001 following eleven years at Dartmouth College, where he had served as the Champion Professor of International Economics. His research covers a range of issues in open economy, including commercial and financial policies, crises in emerging markets, foreign direct investment, capital controls, and exchange...