Christopher Otrok

Senior Economic Policy Advisor at Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas, Research Fellow at Federal Reserve Bank Of St Louis, Sam B Cook Professor at University of Missouri

Christopher Otrok is a Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia and the University of Missouri. From July 2016 until May 2017 he was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. Otrok was Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from 2010-2016.

Publications 

Latest contributions 

VoxEU Column

On the legacy of financial crises: Lessons from Mexico’s sudden stop history

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  • COVID-19
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  • Financial Markets
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  • Global crisis
VoxEU Column

Are macro-prudential policies prudent?

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  • Global crisis
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  • Global governance