I am a Research Manager for Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group, World Bank.

I also manage the World Bank Research and Development Center in Chile and support the East Asia & Pacific Chief Economist Research Center in Malaysia.

My research area is financial development and international finance. In particular, I work on: banking; capital flows; corporate and sovereign bonds; benchmark indexes; debt and equity markets; emerging market finance; financial crises; firm financing; firm performance and growth; institutional investors; international financial markets and institutions; micro and macro financial risk.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, when I joined the World Bank's Young Economist and Young Professionals Programs.

I am a member of the Money and Finance Research (Mo.Fi.R.) group and Treasurer of LACEA, the Latin America and Caribbean Economic Association, since 2004.

I have visited the Bank for International Settlements, the Central Bank of Chile, CREI at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Dutch Central Bank, and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

I taught at the Department of Economics of University of Maryland (1999-2003), worked at the International Monetary Fund Research Department (2004-2005), was Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics (2001-2004), and have participated in several other editorial boards.

In earlier years, I worked at the Argentine Central Bank, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC, and the Inter-American Development Bank Research Department.