CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor at ITAM since January 2024

PREVIOUS POSITION

Visiting Professor at ITAM September 2023 - December 2023

Senior Researcher at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank                                                          May 2017 - August 2023

Research Economist at Bank of Mexico                                                      September 2014 - May 2017

EDUCATION

École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland                     2009 - June 2014

PhD, Dissertations: "Financial Frictions within the Macroeconomy: Policy Analysis from an Empirical and Theoretical Perspective."

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Luisa Lambertini

Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Department of Economics, Princeton University     Spring 2012

Sponsor: Prof. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina                                  2009

Licenciatura en Economía. Honor: 3rd. of the class.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics, Fiscal, and Monetary Policies

AWARD

Premio de Banca Central Rodrigo Gómez (CEMLA)                                                                 November 2017

SEMINARS, CONFERENCES and DISCUSSIONS

IMF, Washington DC, October 2022; Bank of Canada, Ottawa, October 2022; MFF, University of Kent, UK, September 2022; CEF, Dallas, TX, June 2022;  LACEA, November 2021; CEF, June 2021; CEBRA's Internaitonal Finance and Macroeconomics at Bank of Mexico, December 2019; IMF Annual Conference at the Central Bank of Chile, July 2019; SED, St. Louis, MI, July 2019; Tsinghua Workshop in International Finance, Beijing, China, June 2019; Washington Area International Finance Symposium (WAIFS), University of Maryland, Washington, DC, April 2019; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2019; ASSA Meetings, Atlanta, January 2019; IMF, Washington, October 2018; CEBRA meeting at Goethe University, Frankfurt, August 2018; ESEM, Cologne, August 2018; Ridge, Montevideo, August 2018; SED, Mexico City, July 2018; NASMES, UC Davis, June 2018; CEMLA Seminar, Mexico City, May 2018; Bank of Mexico, Mexico City, May 2018; Inflation: Drivers & Dynamics Conference 2018, Cleveland, April 2018; Washington Area International Finance Symposium, Washington, March 2018; XX Workshop on International Economics and Finance, Mexico City, March 2018; CEBRA meeting at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, July 2017; Boston Policy Workshop, Boston, July 2017; IBEFA Summer Meeting at the WEAI, San Diego, June 2017; Canadian Economic Association, Nova Scotia, June 2017; LACEA-LAMES, Medellín, November 2016; Macro MidWest Meeting, Kansas City, November 2016; ESEM, Geneva, August 2016; SED, Toulouse, July 2016; CEF, Bourdeaux, June 2016; NASM of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia, June 2016; Joint BoE, ECB, CEPR and CFM Conference on Credit Dynamics and the Macroeconomy, London, December 2015; IJCB Conference, Mexico City, November 2015; 2nd ITAM-Pier Conference, August 2015; IBEFA Conference, Waikiki, June 2015; IBEFA Day-Ahead Conference, San Francisco Fed, June 2015; CEF, Taiwan, May 2015; Macro MidWest Meeting, St. Louis, May 2015; BIS CCA, Mexico City, April 2015; T2M Conference, Berlin, March 2015; XVIII Workshop in International Economics and Finance, Antigua, March 2015; Workshop of Eurosystem and Latino-american Central Banks, Bogota, March 2015; Central Bank of Sri Lanka, November 2014; Banco de México, April 2014; Victoria University of Wellington, February 2014; CEMLA, Mexico City, February 2014; Banco de México, February 2014; Bank of Canada, January 2014; Bank of Hungary, January 2014; University of Bristol, January 2014; Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, Santander, December 2013; 1st. Gerzensee Alumni Conference, Gerzensee, November 2013; DEEP Macro Workshop - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, November 2013; LACEA-LAMES, Mexico City, October 2013; INFINITI Conference - Science Po, Aix-en-Provence, June 2013; ICMAIF - University of Crete, Crete, May 2013; Young Swiss Economists Meeting, University of Bern, Bern, February 2013; Third Sinergia Common Workshop on the Macroeconomics of Financial Crisis HEID, Geneva, November 2012 ; Princeton Macro and International Workshop, Princeton, May 2012; EBIM Workshop, Bielefeld, December 2011; DEEP Macro Workshop - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, November 2011.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Recursive Methods in Macroeconomics (Graduate level, EPFL)              Fall 2013

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Luisa Lambertini

Macrofinance (Master, EPFL)                                     Fall 2011-2013

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Luisa Lambertini

Global Business Environment (Master, EPFL)              Fall 2009-2012

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Luisa Lambertini

Macroeconomics II (Undergraduate, UBA)                   Spring 2009

Teaching Assistant for Prof. José María Fanelli

Macroeconomics I (Undergraduate, UBA)                    2006-2009

Teaching Assistant for Ramiro Albrieu (Associate Professor)

RELEVANT COURSES

Study Center Gerzensee, Switzerland                                 2010

Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics

Summer School - CEMFI, Spain. "Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Public Policy"             September 2011

Prof. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki 

University of Pennsylvania "1st PIER Workshop on Quantitative Tools for Macroeconomic Policy Analysis"            May 2015

Prof. Francis Diebold, Prof. Enrique G. Mendoza, and Prof. Frank Schorfheide

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant  -  Spring 2009

Prof. Rafael Di Tella (HBS) and Dr. Ignacio Franceschelli (NERA Economic Consulting)                      

Paper: "Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011 , pp. 119-151(33)

Research Assistant for Prof. Daniel Maceira (CEDES and UBA) - 2008

LANGUAGES

Spanish (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate).

COMPUTER SKILLS

Stata, Matlab, E-views, Dynare, Latex, MS Office.

Nationality: Argentina.