Welcome to my personal research website. I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Bamberg (Germany), specifically at the Professorship of Macroeconomics & International Finance. MA in International Economics at the HWR Berlin (Germany). My primary fields of research and professional interest are international macroeconomics and applied econometrics. In parallel to my research activities, I have a decade of private sector experience supporting management teams on macroeconomic topics, and since 2022, I work at Springer Nature.

WORK IN PROGRESS 

• On the Nonlinear Interplay of Geopolitical Risk, Commodity Prices and Macroeconomic Activity (with C. R. Proaño/U of Bamberg). [Current version PDF]

• Fiscal Policy and the Exchange Rate in a Behavioral Open Economy Model: Theory and Empirical Evidence [Preliminary version coming soon!]

• International Reserves Holdings and the Global Financial Cycle: Theory and a GVAR model

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Proaño, C. R.; Quero Virla, L.; Strohsal, T.  (2025). How strong is the link between the global financial cycle and national macro-financial dynamics? A wavelet analysis. Journal of International Money & Finance, 159, 103419.

• Proaño, C. R.; Quero Virla, L. (2024). Macro-Financial Dynamics: Theories, Empirical Methods, and Time Scales. In: Booss-Bavnbek et al. (eds.), Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems II. Challenges for Sciences and Communication, Springer. 

• Quero Virla, L. (2023). An Empirical Characterization of Volatility in the German Stock Market. SN Business & Economics, 3(127). 

• Quero Virla, L. (2016). Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Fluctuations in Colombia. Ecos De Economía: A Latin American Journal of Applied Economics, 20(43). 

CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 

• 2025: 29th Conference of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) Berlin/scheduled; 7th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop, Universtität Bamberg.

• 2024: 18th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE), King's College London;  Workshop für Doktorand:innen am Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung (IMK); 6th Behavioral  Macroeconomics Workshop,  Universität Heidelberg.

• 2023: 17th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE), HTW Berlin & King's College London; 5th Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop, Universität Bamberg; International Economics Research Seminar, HWR Berlin.

• 2022: 8th Meeting German Network for New Economic Dynamics (GENED), Universität Gießen in 2022. 

• 2021: International Economics Research Seminar, HWR Berlin in 2021.