Ricardo Lagos is a Professor of Economics at New York University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His research has advanced understanding of the role of money in modern economies, liquidity in over-the-counter markets, the microstructure of money markets, the theoretical foundations and empirical estimation of money demand, and the role of money demand in monetary policy transmission. His work has been published in Econometrica, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, The Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Review of Economic Dynamics, and International Economic Review.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held positions as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Lecturer at the London School of Economics. He has taught graduate courses in monetary and financial economics at the University of Minnesota, Princeton, Yale, NYU, Indiana University, the University of Tokyo, the Gerzensee Study Center (Switzerland), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina).
He has served as Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and Associate Editor of Economica, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada and several Federal Reserve Banks, including Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and St. Louis.