Jose E. Gomez-Gonzalez

My research is in macroeconomics and finance, with much of my work focused on emerging and developing economies, particularly Latin America. I am especially interested in sovereign risk, financial stability, and the factors that make economies more vulnerable, or more resilient, to financial and macroeconomic shocks.

In my recent work, I have studied sovereign debt and fiscal risk, the links between governments and banks, and how economic complexity, institutions, and climate change affect growth and financial vulnerability. I am particularly interested in how these forces interact. For example, some of my research asks whether the structure of an economy can make a country less prone to fiscal crises, how climate risks affect sovereign borrowing and economic growth, and how shocks to public debt can spill over to the banking system.

I have also worked extensively on financial contagion and the transmission of shocks across countries and markets. This includes research on banking and credit, exchange rates, stock markets, commodities, and real estate. Although these topics are diverse, they are connected by a common interest in understanding how financial vulnerabilities develop, how shocks spread, and why some economies are better able to absorb them than others.

My research has been published in journals including World Development, Energy Economics, Ecological Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of Commodity Markets, and Emerging Markets Review.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and am an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance, Information Systems, and Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY), Lehman College. Before joining CUNY, I held several senior positions at the Central Bank of Colombia, taught at Universidad de La Sabana, and worked as an external consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank.