Expertise

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International Capital Flows

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International Portfolio Allocation

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Financial Sector Development

 
Frank Warnock
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Paul M. Hammaker Associate Professor of Business Administration
B.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Faculty Pavilion 298D    434-924-6076     WarnockF@darden.virginia.edu

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Affiliations and Current Consulting Projects:
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Finance, Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Fellow, Globalization & Monetary Policy Institute (Federal Reserve Bank-Dallas)
Research Associate, Institute for Int'l Integration Studies (Trinity College Dublin)
External Advisor, Housing Finance in Latin America (IDB)

Recent Articles
  "US International Equity Investment" (w/ Ammer, Holland, and Smith), February 2012. Dataset on cross-listing and float.
  "Foreign Exposure through Domestic Equities" (w/Cai) Finance Research Letters (forthcoming).
  "On Returns Differentials" (w/ Curcuru and Thomas, January 2012)
  "Emerging Local Currency Bond Markets" (w/ Burger and V. Warnock) Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming; July 2011 version)
  "Capital Flow Waves" (w/ Forbes) Monetary Authority of Singapore's Macroeconomic Review X(2), Oct 2011.
  "U.S. Treasuries Lose 'Risk-Free' Luster" CFR Expert Brief, August 2011
  "Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight and Retrenchment" (w/ Forbes, NBER WP 17351, August 2011)
 
"U.S. international equity investment and past and prospective returns" (w/ Curcuru, Thomas, and Wongswan) American Economic Review 101(7): 3440-3455 NBER WP version.
  "Doubts about Capital Controls" Capital Flows Comment (April 2011).
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Sudden flight and true sudden stops" (w/ Rothenberg) Review of International Economics 2011.
 
"External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility" (w/ Burger, Rebucci, and V. Warnock) Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies (2010) 5(2): 1-37.
  "Two Myths About the U.S. Dollar" Capital Flows Quarterly (Sept 2010).
  "How Dangerous Is U.S. Government Debt? The Risk of a Sudden Spike in U.S. Interest Rates" Capital Flows Quarterly (June 2010).
 

Past Practitioner Talks
Housing Finance around the World, Il Foro de Vivienda (Bogota, Dec 2010)
Currency Wars, Capital Flows, and EME Consequences ADB-AIM Knowledge Hub (Manila, Nov 2010)
China's Currency Policy and Global Imbalance, Global HR Forum 2010 video/slides (Seoul, Oct 2010)
Global Imbalances: The Next Crisis? AEI's No Way Out series slides/video (Washington, Dec 2009)
US International Capital Flows NABE Professional Development Seminar (Washington, April 2009)
On the US Economy Houston Area Darden Tuck Alumni Group (Houston, Feb 2008)
Financial Globalization World Economic Forum/RBWC/G20 Deputies (Durban Sept 2007)

BIOGRAPHY (expanded, one-page version)
Frank Warnock is Paul M. Hammaker Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. His research, which focuses on international capital flows, international portfolio allocation, and financial sector development, has been published in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, and Journal of Housing Economics (among other journals) and featured in Financial Times, The Economist, Barron's, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. At Darden, Frank has been awarded an Outstanding Faculty (teaching) Award and a Wachovia Award for Research Excellence.

Prior to joining Darden in 2004, Frank was Senior Economist in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. He also taught at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina. Frank's international experience includes a stint with Merrill Lynch in Vienna, Austria as well as two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi's Thyolo District. His professional career started on Wall Street, where he was a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA).

Frank's current affiliations include Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge; Adjunct Senior Fellow for International Finance at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Senior Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute; and Research Associate at the Institute of International Integration Studies (IIIS) at Trinity College Dublin. He is also currently a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank on a project on housing finance systems in Latin American. In the recent past he has been Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and a consultant with the IMF and the ECB.