

Full Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where he has also played a leading role in graduate training and academic research. He previously served as Senior Researcher at the Central Reserve Bank of Peru and as a member of Peru’s Fiscal Council. Before returning to Peru, he held faculty positions at the University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Montreal.
His research focuses on econometrics, macroeconometrics, and applied time series analysis, with particular emphasis on structural change, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and financial econometrics. His work studies macroeconomic fluctuations, inflation, exchange rate dynamics, and financial market volatility, especially in the Peruvian and Latin American context. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, The Econometrics Journal, Empirical Economics, and the Journal of Economic Studies.


Professor of Economics and Associate Dean, Research and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University. She is also a member of CIRANO and GRADE, and leads the Women’s Empowerment in Development Lab (WEDLab). She previously served as Director of McGill’s Institute for the Study of International Development.
Her research focuses on development economics, gender economics, labour economics, and health economics, with particular emphasis on social policy, women’s economic empowerment, and decision-making under uncertainty. Her work combines surveys, laboratory experiments, and randomized evaluations, drawing on field research in Peru, Paraguay, Kenya, and the Caribbean. Her research has appeared in journals such as World Development, Health Economics, Demography, and Economic Development and Cultural Change.


Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously held visiting positions at Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
His research focuses on international trade, labor markets, and economic geography. His work studies how trade, migration, and technological change shape the allocation of economic activity across regions and sectors, with particular emphasis on structural transformation and labor market dynamics. He has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Labor Economics.


Senior Economist and Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. She previously served on the faculty at Stony Brook University and held research positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester.
Her research focuses on macroeconomics, political economy, and international finance. Her work studies the interaction between political polarization, fiscal policy, sovereign debt, and financial markets, with particular attention to how political frictions shape macroeconomic instability and investment decisions. She is especially known for developing the Partisan Conflict Index, a widely followed measure of political disagreement in the United States. Her research has appeared in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the International Economic Review.


Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science and the Center for Study of Public Choice. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and serves as Associate Editor of the European Economic Review and Advisory Editor of Games and Economic Behavior. He previously held academic positions at ITAM, the University of Rochester, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
His research focuses on economic theory, game theory, political economy, and public economics, with an emphasis on collective decision-making, electoral accountability, and the role of information in economic and political environments. His work combines theoretical and experimental approaches to study voting behavior, media, and institutional design, and has been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Economic Journal.