
Steve Kamin
Steve Kamin is the former director of the US Federal Reserve’s Division of International Finance. He is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
He retired from a 34-year career at the Fed in 2020, during which he provided analytic and operational support to the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and represented the Fed in many international groups while publishing on a wide range of issues in international macroeconomics and finance. Kamin also served as a visiting economist at the BIS, a senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and a consultant for the World Bank.
Kamin is a Central Banking contributing editor.
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Articles by Steve Kamin
A league table for central bank hawkishness
Steve Kamin runs the numbers to assess which central banks have raised rates most aggressively
Another financial crisis hiding in plain sight
Steve Kamin analyses how the risks that sank SVB were plain enough to those who looked for them
The strong dollar, global inflation and global recession
Steve Kamin asks whether the Fed’s tight policy is pushing the world towards recession
US inflation: it’s mainly global
Steve Kamin analyses the pre-existing conditions that impacted inflation in the US and elsewhere
Do CBDCs make sense for Latin America?
Steven Kamin says CBDCs may be particularly beneficial to emerging market economies
Is Latin American monetary policy still counter-cyclical?
Steve Kamin asks whether Latin American central banks are tightening aggressively by historical standards
Inflation, Fed policy and emerging markets: the good, the bad and the ugly
Steve Kamin explores the global implications of rising inflation and interest rates in the US
Fed faces longer-term challenges under new policy strategy
Steve Kamin warns central bank may not have paid enough attention to why r* has fallen
Estimating the cost of a pandemic grant for the world’s poorest economies
The cost of support measures for vulnerable economies is manageable, says Steve Kamin
How vulnerable are EMEs to renewed Covid-19 turbulence?
Emerging markets face pressures from the health crisis and global financial forces, says Steve Kamin