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Current Employment:
2019-
Senior Economist, Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, August 2019 to present.
Education:
2019
PhD Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 2019.
Dissertation: “Essays in Heterogeneous Agent Monetary Economics.”
Committee: Julia K. Thomas (advisor), Aubhik Khan, Kyle Dempsey.
2014
MA Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
2011
MA Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
2009
BA Economics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia.
Published Papers:
2023
The Long-Run Redistributive Effects of Monetary Policy,
Journal of Monetary Economics, 140: 106-123.
2023
The Contribution of Firm Profits to the Recent Rise in Inflation,
(with Panagiotis Bouras, Xing Guo, and Jacob Short), Economics Letters, 233: 111449.
2015
Countercyclical Reserve Requirements in a Heterogeneous-Agent and Incomplete Financial Markets Economy,
(with Franz Hamann), Journal of Macroeconomics, 46: 55-70.
2008
Race as Determinant on the Access of a Job of Quality: A Study for Cali, [in Spanish]
(with Santiago Arroyo), Ensayos sobre Política Económica (ESPE), 26 (57): 130-175.
Working Papers
- Debt Overhang, Monetary Policy, and Economic Recoveries After Large Recessions (February 2020).
Old Working Papers:
2012
Constant-Interest-Rate Projections and their Indicator Properties,
(with Luis E. Rojas), Borradores de Economía, No. 696, Banco de la República.
Previous Employment:
2009-13
Economist, Macroeconomic Modelling Department, Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia.
2009-09
Economist, Department of Financial Research, Colombian Banking Association (Asobancaria). Bogotá, Colombia.
2008-09
Research Assistant, Macroeconomic Modelling Department, Banco de la República. Bogotá, Colombia.
2007-08
Research Assistant, Research Group on Applied Microeconomics and Experimental Methods, MIMEX, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Cali, Colombia.
Seminars and Conference Presentations:
2023
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting (Cartagena, Colombia), European Summer Meeting of the
Econometric Society (Barcelona School of Economics), Lisbon Macro Workshop (Católica Lisbon).
2022
Canadian Economics Association Conference (Carleton), North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric
Society (U of Miami), Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting (Wisconsin), European Summer
Meeting of the Econometric Society (Bocconi).
2021
LACEA-LAMES Annual Meeting (Virtual), Banco de la República (Colombia, Virtual).
2020
World Congress of the Econometric Society (Virtual), Congress of the European Economic Association (Virtual).
2019
Louisiana State University, HEC Montréal, Bank of Canada, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, CIREQ - Concordia University, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (U of Washington).
2018
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (UC Davis).
2017
Midwest Macroeconomic Meetings (U of Pittsburgh).
2012
Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Researchers Network of the Americas - CEMLA (Montevideo).
Discussions:
2023
Lisbon Macro Workshop (Católica Lisbon), “Aggregation Across Each Nation: Aggregator Choice and Macroeconomic
Dynamics”, by Noëmie Lisack, Simon Lloyd, and Rana Sajedi. September, 2023.
2022
Canadian Macro Study Group (UQAM), “Corporate Debt Maturity Matters for Monetary Policy”, by Joachim
Jungherr, Matthias Meier, Timo Reinelt, and Immo Schott. November, 2022.
Refereeing:
- Economic Inquiry, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics.
Fellowships, Awards and Honors:
- Dice Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, Ohio State University, 2018.
- University Fellowship, Graduate School, Ohio State University, 2013-2014.
- Graduated with Honors (ranked first), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, May 2009.
Teaching Experience:
- Teaching Assistant (Ohio State):
- PhD Macro Theory IB: Fall 2015-17 (Prof. Julia Thomas).
- PhD Macro Theory IIA: Spring 2016-18 (Prof. Stefania Albanesi, Prof. Sanjay Chugh, Prof. Kyle Depmsey).
- Introduction to Microeconomics (Undergrad), Spring 2015.
- Teaching Assistant (Previous Experience):
- Universidad de los Andes: DSGE Modelling (Grad), Microeconomics 3 (Undergrad).
- Universidad Javeriana Bogotá: Macroeconometrics, Macro Theory (Grad).
- Universidad Javeriana Cali: Macroeconomics 1 and, Microeconomics 1 (Undergrad).
- Instructor:
- Central Bank of Guatemala: Applied Dynamic Macroeconomics (Grad).
Computational Skills:
- Fortran (with OpenMP and MPI), Matlab, Julia, R, Stata.