Adam Honig
Department of Economics
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
(413) 542-5032 FAX: (413) 542-2090
Academic Positions
Professor of Economics, Amherst College (2017 – present)
Associate Professor of Economics, Amherst College (2011 – 2017)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College (2004 – 2011)
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 1998-2004. Dissertation: Essays on the Role of
Government in Emerging Market Financial Crises. Advisor: Frederic S. Mishkin.
B.A., Economics, Columbia University, 1997, Magna Cum Laude, Parker Prize in
Economics.
Publications
“Elections and Capital Flows,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 52: 2-3, 471-503, 2020.
“Foreign Currency Debt and the Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Rising U.S. Interest
Rates,” Applied Economics Letters, 26:21, 1739-1743, 2019.
“The impact of central bank independence on the performance of inflation targeting regimes,”
with Sami Alpanda. Journal of International Money and Finance, 44: 118-135, 2014.
“Financial Frictions and the Strength of Monetary Transmission,” with Uluc Aysun and Ryan
Brady. Journal of International Money and Finance, 32: 1097-1119, 2013.
“Extending the textbook dynamic AD-AS framework with flexible inflation expectations,
optimal policy response to demand changes, and the zero-bound on the nominal interest
rate,” with Sami Alpanda and Geoffrey Woglom. Modern Economy, 4: 145-160, 2013.
“Introducing liability dollarization and contractionary depreciations to the IS curve,” Modern
Economy, 3: 469-72, 2012.
“Bankruptcy Costs, Liability Dollarization, and Vulnerability to Sudden Stops,” with Uluc
Aysun. Journal of Development Economics, 95:2, 201-211, 2011.
“Political Monetary Cycles and a de facto Ranking of Central Bank Independence,” with Sami
Alpanda, Journal of International Money and Finance, 29:6, 1003-1023, 2010.
“The Impact of Central Bank Independence on Political Monetary Cycles in Advanced and
Developing Nations,” with Sami Alpanda, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 41:7,
1365-1389, 2009.
“Dollarization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Government Quality,” Journal of International
Money and Finance, 28:2, 198-214, 2009.
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“Addressing Causality in the Effect of Capital Account Liberalization on Growth” Journal of
Macroeconomics, 30:4, 1602-1616, 2008.
“Do Improvements in Government Quality Necessarily Reduce the Incidence of Costly Sudden
Stops?” Journal of Banking and Finance, 32:3, 360-373, 2008. (Featured in RGE Monitor
Emerging Markets section on Sudden Stops.)
“A Model of Liability Dollarization and Myopic Governments,” International Economic
Journal, 20 (3): 343-55, 2006.
“Is There a Link Between Dollarization and Banking Crises?” Journal of International
Development, 18 (8): 1123-35, 2006.
“Micro-Level Evidence on the Role of Moral Hazard in the Asian Financial Crisis,” with Sonali-
Jain Chandra, Applied Econometrics and International Development, 6 (1), 2006.
“The Exchange Rate Regime, Government Quality and External Liability Dollarization,” Journal
of World Economic Review, 1 (1): 71-85, 2006.
“Fear of Floating and Domestic Liability Dollarization,” Emerging Markets Review, 6 (3): 289-
307, 2005.
Editorships and Refereeing
Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Referee for: American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of
Banking and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, International Journal of Central
Banking, International Finance, Contemporary Economic Policy, The Journal of
Economic Education, Economic Systems, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Journal
of Economics and Business, Economics & Politics, International Journal of Financial
Studies, International Interactions, Journal of Economics.
Courses Taught
ECON-111: An Introduction to Economics
ECON-237: Financial Globalization, Growth and Crises
ECON-290: Special Topics: The Great Recession
ECON-330: Macroeconomics
ECON-331: Advanced Macroeconomics
ECON-360: Econometrics
ECON-435: Topics in Open-Economy Macroeconomics
ECON-499: Senior Thesis
College Service
2019-present: Chair of the Working Group on Navigating the College's Web Site
2019-present: Ad-hoc Committee on Student Learning
2016-present: Faculty Director of the Moss Quantitative Center
2016-2018: Teaching & Learning Collaborative Nexus Group
2015-2018: Curriculum Committee
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2014-2016: Chair of the Economics Department
2012-2015: Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), Chair 2013-2015
2013-2014: Project in Innovative Curriculum and Teaching (PICT) Oversight and
Assessment Committee
2010-2011: Internet Strategy Group (ISG)
2009-2011: Faculty Computing Committee (FCC)
2006-2007: Green Committee
2005-2006: Environmental Science Committee
