Andrés Erosa

Andrés Erosa obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1996 (supervisor: Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Prize Laureate in 2004) and his B.A. in Economics at Universidad de la República Uruguay. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Western University (1996-2000) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2001-2002). After that, he was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (2003-2008, with tenure since 2006) and Research Professor at IMDEA Social Sciences (2008-2012). Since 2012 he holds a Full Professor position at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid where he was the director of the Ph.D. program from 2014 until September 2019. Andrés Erosa's research interests cover a set of fields in the broad area of Macroeconomics. His research papers have been published in leading international academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.


Andrés Erosa has supervised numerous Ph.D. students in the area of Macroeconomics whose job placement includes prestigious institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Iowa, and the Richmond Fed. He has directed research projects sponsored by the European Commission and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others. He was a Fulbright Fellow and was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation and the Dean’s Merit Award for his contributions to the Economics Department at the University of Toronto in 2006-2007. Throughout his career, he received several distinctions for the quality of his teaching.