Carlos Garriga is a Senior Vice President and the Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His areas of expertise focus on macroeconomics and housing, household finance, asset pricing, financial and credit markets, and monetary economics. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank in 2007, he was faculty at the Department of Economics at Florida State University (2001-2007), and at the Universidad de Barcelona (1996-2001). He has been a visiting scholar at the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Reserve Bank in New Zealand, Sveriges Riksbank, the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Minneapolis and Atlanta and LAEF at the University of California Santa Barbara, CEDEC Washington University in St. Louis, the London School of Economics, and the University of Minnesota. He has given lectures at Washington University in St. Louis, the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED), and Abat Oliba CEU University. He received his BA in economics in 1989-1994 and a PhD in economics in  1995-1999 from the Universidad de Barcelona.

He is a highly accomplished economist with a long list of publications in top academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, European Economic Review, Journal of European Economic Association, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and chapters in books published by Chicago University Press and MIT Press. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-0649374), Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia in Spain (SEJ2006-02879, SEC2003-06080, SEC2001-3392), and Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR01-00029, 1999-SGR16). He is a member of the editorial advisory board at Public Finance Review, a former editor of the Review at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and a former Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Referee: American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Economica, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, Economic Inquiry, National Tax Journal, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Economic Modeling, Southern Economic Journal, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Public Finance Review, International Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Investigaciones Económicas, Hacienda Pública, Revista de Economia Aplicada.

Contact Information

Research Division

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

P.O. Box 442

St. Louis, MO 63166-0442

Phone: (314) 444-7412

Fax: (314) 444-8731

Email: carlos.garriga@stls.frb.org

Administrative assistant:

Julie Fletcher, julie.k.fletcher@stls.frb.org

Phone: (314) 444-8577

For media inquiries, contact:

Shera Dalin, mediainquiries@stls.frb.org

Phone: (314) 444-3911