Post-doc in Macroeconomics joins Department
Posted by Johan Fourie on 2015-06-10
The Department is happy to announce that from the beginning of June 2015, Fernando García Barragán is a post-doctoral fellow within the macroeconomic research cluster of the Department. He has received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy and also spent time as a PhD student visiting scholar at the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques, France. His main research fields are macroeconomics, DSGE models, financial intermediation and central banking.
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