Marco Ortiz
UP - ECONOMICS
UP - ECONOMICS
Marco Ortiz is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Perú. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy in emerging economies, combining quantitative methods and structural models to study monetary policy, exchange-rate dynamics, and external shocks. His work spans open-economy macroeconomics, inflation and expectations, informality and the interaction between financial conditions and the real economy, with a strong applied focus on Peru and Latin America.
"Exchange Rate Determination: The Role of Portfolio and Liquidity Shocks", co-authored with Adrian Armas B. (Michigan U.), accepted for the CEF 2025 in Santiago de Chile, Chile.
New publication: “The role of US bank liquidity and regulations in Covered Interest Parity deviations” (with Walter Bazán-Palomino, Marco E. Terrones, and Diego Winkelried), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (2025).
New Working Paper: “Exchange Rate Disconnect and Current Account Dynamics” (with Javier Ayala ), SSRN (Jan 22, 2025).
Book publication: Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models / Real Business Cycles Models: Closed and Open Economy (with H. Galindo and A. Montecinos), Springer (2024).
PhD Economics LSE, 2008/2013
MRes Economics LSE, 2006/08
BSc Economics, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú 1998/2002
Associate Professor, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú (UP)
Macroeconomics, International Finance, DSGE modelling, Numerical methods.