Alberto Ortiz-Bolanos
Visiting Assistant Professor
Alberto.Ortiz@oberlin.edu

Alberto Ortiz (Ph.D. candidate, Boston University) is interested in Macroeconomics, International, and Development Economics. His research focuses on developing empirically viable macroeconomic models to generate evidence for emerging market economies. He estimates dynamic general equilibrium models using Bayesian methods to measure the importance of credit market imperfections, to characterize the evolution of monetary policies, and to analyze optimal monetary and fiscal policy responses to adverse capital account shocks during periods of global capital market turmoil. His teaching experience includes courses in Monetary and Banking Institutions and Macroeconomic Analysis at Boston University, and a course in International Financial Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Curriculum Vita (Resume): (PDF 117k)

Working Papers :

• Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Sudden Stop: Is Tighter Brighter?
  Alberto Ortiz , Pablo Ottonello, Federco Sturzenegger and Ernesto Talvi
  2007

• Estimating SARB's Policy Reaction Rule
  Alberto Ortiz and Federco Sturzenegger
  2008

Fall 2008: