Contributors

Mark Aguiar is the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University.

Fernando Alvarez is an Argentine macroeconomist and professor of economics at the University of Chicago.

Manuel Amador is professor of economics at the University of Minnesota and a monetary advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Eduardo Fernández Arias is a Uruguayan economist. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Peking University and an independent consultant for several multilateral organizations on economic development issues.

Joao Ayres has been an economist in the research department at the Inter-American Development Bank since 2017.

Saki Bigio is assistant professor at the department of economics of UCLA.

Luigi Bocola is assistant professor of economics at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the 2020 Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Francisco J. Buera is the Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Associate Editor of The Review of Economic Studies and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

Guillermo Calvo is professor of Economics, International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic research (NBER).

Rodrigo Caputo is associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Santiago, Chile. He is also a Research Associate at the Santiago Center for Experimental Social Sciences, Oxford University.

Roberto Chang is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2020 he is a BP Centennial Professor at LSE.

Carlos Javier Charotti is a researcher at the Central Bank of Paraguay. Currently, he is a PhD student at The University of Manchester.

Simon Cueva is an Ecuadorian economist and international consultant and director at TNK Economics Ecuador.

Julián P. Díaz is associate professor of economics at the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago.

Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II Distinguished Professor of International Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His latest book is American Default: The untold story of FDR, the Supreme Court and the Battle over Gold (2018).

Carlos Esquivel is assistant professor in the department of economics at Rutgers University.

Arturo José Galindo is a Governor at the Central Bank of Colombia.

Márcio Garcia is full professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil, a research associate of CNPq and FAPERJ, member of the board of directors of Banrisul and of the Bellagio Group.

Diogo Guillen is currently a lecturer at PUC-Rio and Insper.

Lars Peter Hansen is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor and the director of BFI’s Macro Finance Research (MFR) Program at the University of Chicago.

Patrick Kehoe is an international macroeconomist. Since 2015 he has been a professor at Stanford University.

Timothy J. Kehoe has been a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota since 1987. In addition, he is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He is coeditor of Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century.

Carlos Gustavo Machicado Salas works as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD Foundation), based in La Paz, Bolivia. He is also senior economist at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Bolivia. He works as an undergraduate and postgraduate professor in the Department of Economics of the Bolivian Catholic University (UCB) and the Bolivian Private University (UPB).

Joaquín Marandino is a master’s candidate in Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina.

Alberto Martin is currently a Senior Research Adviser at the European Central Bank and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (London). He is also a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Research Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (on leave). He is a member of the Board of Editors of the Review of Economic Studies, an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics, and a Member of the Panel at Economic Policy.

Cesar Martinelli is professor of economics at George Mason University and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Economic Theory Fellow. He is currently an Advisory Editor for Games and Economic Behavior.

Dr. Felipe Meza is a researcher at CAIE and a professor of Economics at ITAM in Mexico City.

Pablo Andrés Neumeyer is professor of economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Guggenheim Fellow and Premio Konex Platino. He is the head of LACEA's network on International Finance since and the founding editor of the blog Foco Económico.

Juan Pablo Nicolini is a senior research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He also teaches part-time at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.

Gabriel Oddone is Head Professor of Economic Policy at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and a Partner of Cinve (Centro de Investigaciónes Económicas; Montevideo Uruguay).

Daniel Osorio is the Head of the Financial Stability Department at the Banco de la República (the Central Bank of Colombia).

José Peres Cajías is assistant professor at the University of Barcelona.

David Perez-Reyna is currently assistant professor at the department of economics of Universidad de los Andes.

Fabrizio Perri is currently monetary advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Andrew Powell is currently the Principal Advisor in the Research Department. He has edited several books and coordinated the annual IDB’s Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report for several years.

Diego Restuccia is professor of economics and a Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics and Productivity at the University of Toronto in Canada, a Research Associate in NBER’s Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program, a Research Director of Macroeconomic Development at the Research Institute for Development, Growth, and Economics (RIDGE), an Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and a Fellow at the Bank of Canada.

When working in this project, Diego Saravia was the Manager of Economic Research at the Central Bank of Chile. Currently he is director at Proficio (Argentina) and professor at Universidad de los Andes. He is consultant to governments, central banks, international organizations and firms in the private sector.

Thomas Sargent is professor of economics at New York University.

José A. Scheinkman is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Theodore Wells ’23 Professor of Economics (emeritus) at Princeton University. He is a research associate at the NBER, member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and a corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Felipe Gonzalez Soley is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom (graduation expected 2021).

Teresa Ter-Minassian is currently an international economic consultant.

Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos is a Member of the Board at Banco Basa in Paraguay.

Marco Vega is Deputy Manager of Economic Research at the Central Bank of Peru. He also holds a part-time position in the Economics Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Carlos Végh is the Fred H. Sanderson Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins University.

François R. Velde is a senior economist and research advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is the co-author, with Thomas Sargent, of The Big Problem of Small Change.

Alejandro Werner assumed his current position as Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January 2013.