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Short Bio

Sebastian Alvarez is Assistant Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Associate Researcher at the Graduate Institute (Geneva). His research focuses on sovereign debt, international banking, bond markets and financial crises in the XX century with special focus on Latin America during the interwar period and the international debt crisis of the 1980s. To investigate these issues he employs qualitative as well as quantitative methods. His work has been published in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Revista de Historica Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Financial History Review and Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research, América Latina en la Historia Económica. His first book "Mexican banks and foreign finance: From internationalization to financial crisis, 1973-82" was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan. He has been awarded the Prix de la Relève 2016 by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and a number of fellowships by the SNSF, the European Commission and the French government. He has been academic visitor at the University of Zurich, Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and New York University. He holds a Phd. in Economic and Social History from the University of Geneva, a Master in Economics from the University of Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor in Economics from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina.

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