Researcher
Andres Erosa is Research Professor at IMDEA Ciencias Sociales. Prior to joining IMDEA Currently, he was professor of economics at the University of Toronto. His research covers a number of fields in the area of Macroeconomics. In Monetary Theory, this includes the analysis of private money and the study of the distributive effects of monetary policies; in Public Finance, the analysis of the effects of capital gains taxation on business turnover, the study of how the government should set taxes optimally, and the evaluation of the aggregate and distributive effects of fiscal policies; in Economic Development, he has studied the consequences of capital market imperfections for entrepreneurship and aggregate total factor productivity in the economy; in Labor Economics, he has documented empirical regularities on labor supply and developed theories aimed at understanding gender differences in wages. Dr Erosa’s research has been published in leading international academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the International Economic Review, and Economic Theory, among others. He has been invited to present his work at leading academic institutions in Europe and North America, and his work has been included in the agenda of the most prestigious academic meetings in economics. Professor Erosa has supervised numerous Ph.D. students in the area of Macroeconomics and their doctoral dissertations led to publications in leading academic journals. His doctoral students have been placed at such prestigious institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and the University of Toronto, among others. He has directed and participated in several research projects sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Spanish Ministry of Education and the BBVA Foundation, among others. Born in Uruguay, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Economics, Dr Erosa earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1996. A Fulbright Fellow, he was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. Over the course of his career, he has received several distinctions for his teaching and received the Dean’s Merit award for his contributions to the Economics Department at the University of Toronto during the period 2006-2007. From 2002 to 2004 he served as an associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review.