Cristina Arellano is a Monetary Advisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is on the editorial boards of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Economic Literature. Her research focuses on international macroeconomics, sovereign debt, and financial crises. Cristina received her B.S. in economics from Indiana University and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. Cristina’s work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Economic Theory, among others.