Philip Brock, Department of Economics

Philip Brock
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics, Latin American Central Banking
Email: plbrock@u.washington.edu
Office: Savery 345
Phone: (206) 543-5796
Office Hours: Mon, Wed 1:00-2:30 pm---Condon Hall 401
Professor Brock received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1982 and his B.A. in 1976 from Princeton University. Before joining the UW faculty, he taught at Duke University from 1982-1991.

Courses Taught

Books

Latin American Debt and Adjustment, Philip Brock, Michael Connolly, and Claudio Gonzalez Vega (eds.). Praeger Publishers, 1989
If Texas were Chile: A Primer on Banking Reform, Philip Brock (ed.). ICS Press, San Francisco, 1992
Why So High? Understanding Interest Rate Spreads in Latin America, Philip Brock and Liliana Rojas Suarez (eds.). Interamerican Development Bank, 2000

Working Papers

UWEC-2003-25 - " Measuring the Determinants of Average and Marginal Bank Interest Rate Spreads in Chile, 1994-2001 ," Philip Brock; Helmut Franken. (PDF)
UWEC-2009-11 - " Securitización de Hipotecas y Desarrollo Económico: Un Ensayo Sobre la Caja Hipotecaria de Chile ," Philip L. Brock. (PDF)
UWEC-2009-10 - " Transforming Bad Banks into Good Banks: Lessons from the Chilean Financial Crisis ," Philip L. Brock. (PDF)
UWEC-2009-09 - " Restructuring the Financial System ," Philip L. Brock. (PDF)
UWEC-2009-03 - " Collateral Constraints and Macroeconomic Adjustment in an Open Economy ," Philip L. Brock. (PDF)
UWEC-2008-02-R - " Mortgage Securitization and Economic Development: An Essay on the Caja de Crédito Hipotecario of Chile ," Philip L. Brock. (PDF)

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Published Papers

" The Securitization of Mortgages and Economic Development: An Essay on the National Mortgage Bank of Chile ," Philip L. Brock; Economía Chilena, Volume 12 (2009), 69-93. (PDF)
" The Transfer Problem ," Philip Brock; New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008), .
" Corrective Taxes and Quasi-Taxes for Financial Institutions and Their Interaction with Deposit Insurance , " Philip Brock; Oxford University Press, 2003.
" Financial Safety Nets: Lessons from Chile ," Philip Brock; World Bank Research Observer 15 (2000): 69-84, . (PDF)
" Understanding the Behavior of Bank Spreads in Latin America , " Philip Brock; Journal of Development Economics 63 (2000): 113-34 , co-authored with Liliana Rojas-Suarez.
" Trade Liberalization and Financial Crisis: A Historical Comparison of Chile and the United States , " Philip Brock; Anne O. Krueger, ed., Macroeconomic Reforms in Latin America, University of Chicago Press, 2003.