Jesse Schreger http://scholar.princeton.edu/schreger/ [email protected]

Contact Information 314 Fisher Hall Princeton, NJ 08544-1021 Cell: 914-645-9519

Academic Positions 2016- Assistant Professor, Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School 2015-2016 Fellow, International Economics Section,

Education Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, , 2015 Thesis title: “Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics” Advisors: Gita Gopinath (co-chair), (co-chair), John Campbell, Jeffry Frieden, and Jeffrey Frankel A.M., Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, 2012 B.A., Economics and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests International Finance, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Political Economy

Teaching Experience: Spring 2014 Econ 2010d Economic Theory, Harvard University, guest lecture on “Defaulting on Local Currency Sovereign Debt” (graduate) Fall 2011 and Econ 1545 International Financial and Macroeconomic Policy, Harvard University, 2012 teaching fellow for Professor Kenneth Rogoff (undergraduate) Spring 2012 Econ 2530b International Finance, Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professor Gita Gopinath (graduate) Fall 2011 Econ 2530a International Trade, Harvard University, grader for Professor Elhanan Helpman (graduate)

Research Experience and Other Employment: Summer 2014 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dissertation Internship 2011-2012 Harvard University, Research Assistant to Professor Elhanan Helpman 2010-2013 Harvard University, Research Assistant to Professor Jeffrey Frankel 2007-2009 Council on Foreign Relations, Research Associate in International Economics

Professional Activities: Seminars and Conference Presentations: 2015 (* indicates scheduled): University of California-Berkeley*, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler*, DIW Berlin, Society for Economic Dynamics, NBER Summer Institute (IFM and EFMB), BIS*, IDB*, Boston College, Boston University, Brown University, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Harvard Business School, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, University of Chicago Booth 2014: Federal Reserve Board, International Monetary Fund 2013: Western Finance Association, State Street Center for Applied Research

Discussions: D’Erasmo, Pablo and Enrique Mendoza. “Distributional Incentives in an Equilibrium Model of Domestic Sovereign Default”, NBER Sovereign Debt and Financial Crisis Conference, October 2013 Referee: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Tax and Public Finance, Economics and Politics

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships: 2014 Harvard Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2013 SAC Capital Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research (Western Finance Association award for “Local Currency Sovereign Risk”) 2011, 2012 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching 2009-2014 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship (Harvard)

Publications: “Local Currency Sovereign Risk” with Wenxin Du. Forthcoming, Journal of Finance.

“Over-optimistic official forecasts and fiscal rules in the eurozone” with Jeffrey A. Frankel. Review of World Economics, 149(2), 247-272.

Working Papers “Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets” with Wenxin Du.

“The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina” with Benjamin Hébert.