Hunter Monroe

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Hunter Monroe
Born (1962-03-29) March 29, 1962 (age 61)
Alma mater Davidson College (BS)
University of Oxford (M.Phil., D.Phil.)
Occupation Economist
Years active1987–present
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Hunter Monroe (born March 29, 1962) is an American economist, serving with the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, Peterson Institute for International Economics, and International Monetary Fund. He was the IMF's representative to Georgia (1996-99) and Honduras (2005-06). He has published in the areas of crypto-assets, central bank digital currencies, natural gas markets, Ponzi schemes, and Caribbean economies, and outside of economics on computational complexity and theoretical physics. He was a Rhodes scholar. [1] and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Background and personal life

Born in Chapel Hill, NC, Monroe graduated from Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) in 1980, and went on to study mathematics at Davidson College as a Stuart Scholar. He then obtained his D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, studying under Prof. John Vickers, examining systems versus components competition in the computer industry. [2]

Career

Monroe worked on the staff of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee during 1987-90, focusing on European integration. [3] He subsequently worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, co-authoring a book on the U.S. current account deficit. [4]

At the IMF, Monroe led Article IV and technical assistance missions to a range of countries, including Dominica, El Salvador, [5] [6] Georgia, Honduras, the Kyrgyz Republic, Myanmar, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, and Turkmenistan. His work examined subjects including fintech, spillovers within currency unions, Ponzi schemes, offshore financial centers, remittances, natural gas markets, and migration. He worked on teams delivering $3.5 billion debt relief to Bolivia, Honduras, and Zambia. He led development of the IMF's Financial Sector Stability Review, which has become the key tool guiding technical assistance to countries aiming to improve their financial stability, and helped raised $25 million from donor countries for the supporting Financial Sector Stability Fund. He served as IMF Representative to Georgia and Honduras.

Monroe also served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University's Elliott School for International Affairs, leading graduate seminars on the Economics of Natural Gas, and at Stanford University's Washington program, on international economics for undergraduates.

He has also published in fields outside of economics. In the area of computational complexity, he examined the relationship between computational problems with no fastest algorithm, such as matrix multiplication, [7] and whether closed timelike curves are undesirable in a physical model. [8] This paper "Are Causality Violations Undesirable?" was co-winner of the Queen Mary University of London Essay Prize on Closed Timelike Curves.

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References

  1. "Rhodes Scholars Announced; a First for Hispanic Women". New York Times. 3 December 1983.
  2. Farrell, Joseph; Monroe, Hunter; Saloner, Garth (February 1998). "The Vertical Organization Of Industry: Systems Competition versus Component Competition". Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. 7 (2): 143–182. doi:10.1162/105864098567380.
  3. Monroe, Hunter (June 21, 1990). European Developments and the U.S. Economy (PDF). United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.
  4. Lenz, Allen; Monroe, Hunter; Parsell, Bruce (1992). Narrowing the U.S. Current Account Deficit: A Sectoral Assessment. Peterson Institute for International Economics. ISBN   9780881321036.
  5. "Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Visit to El Salvador" (Press release). International Monetary Fund. November 2014. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  6. "FMI recomienda crear un fondo de liquidez a El Salvador". San Salvador: Contrapunto. November 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  7. Monroe, Hunter (2011). "Speedup for natural problems and noncomputability". Theoretical Computer Science. 412 (4–5): 478–481. arXiv: 0906.3765 . doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2010.09.029. ISSN   0304-3975. S2CID   6829092.
  8. Monroe, Hunter (2008). "Are Causality Violations Undesirable?". Foundations of Physics. 38 (11): 1065–1069. arXiv: gr-qc/0609054 . Bibcode:2008FoPh...38.1065M. doi:10.1007/s10701-008-9254-9. ISSN   0015-9018. S2CID   119707350.