Ricardo Lagos

Professor of Economics - NYU


Ricardo Lagos is currently Professor of Economics at New York University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Fellow of the Econometric Society. His research interests are in macroeconomics, with emphasis on monetary and financial economics. Ricardo's research has been published in several journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Review of Economic Studies. 

Ricardo received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. He has worked as a Lecturer (UK equivalent of Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics, and as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He has taught Master and Ph.D. courses in monetary economics at Indiana University, New York University, Princeton University, Study Center Gerzensee (Switzerland), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), University of Minnesota, University of Tokyo, and Yale University. He has served as Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and Associate Editor of Economica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Review of Economic Dynamics, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.