FACULTY
Hans Genberg

Phone: +41 22 908 5928 Fax: +41 22 733 30 49 Email: genberg@hei.unige.ch Address: HEI, 11A, avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva Office Hours: Wednesdays, 14:00h - 16:00h On leave during the academic year 2005/2006

Hans GENBERG is Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Head of Executive Education at FAME (The International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering) in Geneva. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate Business School of the University of Chicago and the University of Lausanne, and held visiting research appointments at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. From 1995 until 1998 he was Director of the International Center for Monetary and Banking Center (ICMB) in Geneva.

Mr. Genberg received his Studentexamen (High School Diploma) in Sweden before pursuing university studies in the United States obtaining a BA degree in Mathematics from Macalester College and MA and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Chicago.
From 1985 until 1989 he was responsible for the Diploma program at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and between 1989 and 1998 he was Head of its International Economics Section.

Recently he has been heavily involved with both the conception and the execution of technical assistance programs providing training courses for the staff of the Central Banks of Azerbaijan, Tanzania, and Vietnam. This program is financed by the Swiss government. He has also acted as a consultant for a number of organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank, USAID, UNCTAD.

He has been the director or co-director of several research projects dealing with international monetary and macroeconomic issues financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Thyssen Foundation.

Born in Örnsköldsvik Sweden in 1948, he is married and has two grown-up children.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

Working papers
"Inflation Targeting - The Holy Grail of Monetary Policy?", Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research Working Paper No. 2, 2002. (also published in Journal of Policy Reform, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2002, pp. 161-71.)

"Inflation in Hong Kong, SAR - in search of a transmission mechanism", with Laurent Pauwels, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research Working Paper No. 1, 2003

"Exchange-Rate Regimes: Does What Countries Say Matter?", with Alexander Swoboda, Graduate Institute of International Studies, May 31, 2004.

Articles
"The Swiss Franc and the Euro"
Hans Genberg and Arjan Kadareja
In R. Baldwin and A. Brunetti (eds.) Economic Impact of EU membership on Entrants, New Methods and Issues. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

"Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stability"
Hans Genberg
De Economist, 141, No. 4, 2002, pp. 433-53.

"Asset Prices in a Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework"
Hans Genberg, Stephen Cecchetti and Sushil Wadhwani
In W. Hunter, G. Kaufman, and M. Pomerleano (eds.) Asset Price Bubbles. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

"Inflation Targeting – the Holy Grail of Monetary Policy?"
Hans Genberg
Journal of Policy Reform, 2003

"Currency substitution in anticipation of EU accession"
Hans Genberg
In G. von Furstenberg (ed.) Euro and Dollarization: Forms of Monetary Union in Integrating Regions. London: CEPR.

Books
Sverige i EMU, Hur klarar vi övergången? (Sweden in the EMU, How to manage the transition?)
Hans Genberg
Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 1999.

Asset Prices and Central Bank Policy.
Hans Genberg, Stephen Cecchetti, John Lipsky, and Sushil Wadhwani
Geneva and London: ICMB and CEPR, 2000.

Courses Taught

• Macroeconomics
• Advanced Macroeconomics
• Applied International Macroeconomics
• Macroeconomics and Finance for Developing Countries
• Empirical Methods in International Macro and Finance
• Summer School in International Economics, Brussels