Welcome to my personal research website. I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Bamberg (Germany), specifically at the Professorship of Macroeconomics & International Finance. MA in International Economics at the HWR Berlin (Germany). My primary fields of research and professional interest include international macroeconomics, applied econometrics, and long reconomic growth. Since 2022, I work at Springer Nature in the C-Level Corporate Strategy & Market Intelligence team. German and Venezuelan citizen. 

WORK IN PROGRESS 

• Geopolitical Risk, Commodity Prices and Economic Activity: Is their Dynamic Interaction Nonlinear? (with C. R. Proaño/U of Bamberg). [Revised version coming soon!]

• Fiscal Policy and the Exchange Rate in a Behavioral Open Economy Model: Theory and Empirical Evidence [Preliminary version coming soon!]

• International Reserves Holdings and the Global Financial Cycle: Theory and Empirical Evidence

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

During doctoral studies and afterwards

• Proaño, C. R.; Quero Virla, L.; Strohsal, T.  (2025). How strong is the link between the global financial cycle and national macro-financial dynamics? A wavelet analysis. Journal of International Money & Finance, 159, 103419. [Replication Material]

• Proaño, C. R.; Quero Virla, L. (2024). Macro-Financial Dynamics: Theories, Empirical Methods, and Time Scales. In: Booss-Bavnbek et al. (eds.), Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems II. Challenges for Sciences and Communication, Springer. 

Pre-doctoral publications

• Quero Virla, L. (2023). An Empirical Characterization of Volatility in the German Stock Market. SN Business & Economics, 3(127). 

• Quero Virla, L. (2016). Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Fluctuations in Colombia. Ecos De Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, 20(43). 

CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 

• Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop:  2025 & 2023 at Univesity of Bamberg, 2024 at University of Heidelberg..

• International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE): 2024 at the King’s College London, 2023 at the HTW Berlin.

• German Network for New Economic Dynamics (GENED): 2022 at the University of Gießen.

• Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM Conference): 2025.

• International Economics Research Seminar at HWR Berlin: 2026 & 2021.