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 field of research and professional interest is international macroeconomics, methodologically grounded in time series econometrics and quantitative macroeconomic models. Since 2022, I work at Springer Nature in the C-Level Corporate Strategy & Market Intelligence team. German and Venezuelan citizen. 

WORK IN PROGRESS 

• Geopolitical Risk, Commodity Prices and Economic Activity: Is their Dynamic Interaction Nonlinear? (with C. R. Proaño/U of Bamberg). [Revised version coming soon!]

• 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 Empirical Evidence

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

During doctoral studies and afterwards

• 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. [Replication Material]

• 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. 

Pre-doctoral publications

• 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 

• Behavioral Macroeconomics Workshop:  2025 & 2023 at Univesity of Bamberg, 2024 at University of Heidelberg..

• International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE): 2024 at the King’s College London, 2023 at the HTW Berlin.

• German Network for New Economic Dynamics (GENED): 2022 at the University of Gießen.

• Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM Conference): 2025.

• International Economics Research Seminar at HWR Berlin: 2026 & 2021.