Mark A. Aguiar is the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. Aguiar co-directs the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies (GCEPS). Aguiar joined the Princeton faculty in 2011, after  holding appointments at the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and serving as senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Aguiar’s research addresses issues in open- and closed-economy macroeconomics. Aguiar has studied emerging market business cycles, sovereign debt, the political economy of capital taxation, and growth. His recent research on sovereign debt concerns self-fulfilling debt crises and equilibrium maturity choice. He has also investigated life-cycle consumption, time allocation, inequality, and trends in labor supply. His recent research includes work on young men’s labor supply and hand-to-mouth consumption behavior. Aguiar serves as co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research program on International Finance and Macroeconomics. He was co-editor of the American Economic Review, and previously served on the board of editors for the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, and AEJ: Macroeconomics. From 1989-1995, as a US Department of State foreign service officer, he served in embassies in Seoul and Beijing, and also in the Office of Japanese Affairs in Washington, DC. Aguiar received his BA in history and Chinese from Brown University, and his PhD in economics from MIT.