Economist Carmen Reinhart Joins Peterson Institute as Fellow

Carmen Reinhart, the University of Maryland professor who has studied eight centuries of financial crises, was named a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Washington-based nonprofit said.

Reinhart, co-author of the 2009 book “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” is being appointed to an endowed chair named after the late Dennis Weatherstone, former chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s predecessor company, according to a release from the institute.