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Anastasia Nesvetailova

  • Director, Macroeconomic and Development Policies, UNCTAD GDS

Anastasia Nesvetailova is Director in Macroeconomic and Development Policies Professor at UNCTAD GDS.

Anastasia’s main research focuses on the structure of the global financial system, processes of financialization, financial crises and governance. Her key publications include Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit (2007), Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (2010) and Shadow Banking Scope, Origins Theories (2017). In addition, Prof. Nesvetailova has authored numerous academic and media articles on financial crises, stability and regulation.

She is currently working on the political economy of financial innovation, systemic risk, shadow banking and wealth management. Between 2015 and 2016, Anastasia served as member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Shadow Chancellor of the UK.

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Can it Happen Again?

Article By Anastasia Nesvetailova | Mar 27, 2023

This time is different. But is it?

Why The Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy

Article By Photis Lysandrou and Anastasia Nesvetailova | Jun 24, 2022

The depth of the U.S. securities market helps ensure dollar hegemony

The Functional Importance of Asset Backed Securities

Paper Conference paper | By Anastasia Nesvetailova | Oct 2017

An Assessment and Some Policy Implications

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5th Annual UNCTAD-YSI Summer School

Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order

YSI Event Workshop YSI | Aug 1–6, 2022

The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.

Still Swimming Against the Tide?

40 Years of Thinking on Trade and Development

YSI Event Workshop YSI | Aug 1–7, 2021

The 4th UNCTAD YSI Summer School celebrates the approach and legacy of UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report (TDR). The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.

Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.