Cristina Bodea

Cristina Bodea is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Bodea joined the MSU faculty in 2006, after earning a PhD degree from the University of Rochester (2006) and following a post doctoral research fellowship at Princeton University. Between 2007 and 2009 she has been on leave from Michigan State, working as an Economist at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Bodea uses game theory and econometric methods in her work and is substantively interested in issues in the fields of international and comparative political economy, as well as political conflict and democratization.  More specifically, current interests include reputation building in exchange rate policy, central bank independence and government spending, as well as civil war, coups, and low intensity violence as alternative manifestations of domestic conflict. Her work on conflict has been published in the Journal of African Economies and as working papers at the World Bank. Work on exchange rates is forthcoming in International Organization.