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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is the John H. Makin Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets, a program to help students better understand the historical and philosophical underpinnings of markets. He is also codirector of the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project, which brings together scholars from across the university to explore the deep and growing ties among various methodologies and disciplines of economic history.
Dr. Fernández-Villaverde’s broad areas of research include macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic history. Some of his recent research projects have studied issues in monetary economics, the formulation and estimation of dynamic equilibrium models, and the historical effects of “fractured land” on state formation in Eurasia.
Dr. Fernández-Villaverde has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge and a visiting scholar at several Federal Reserve Banks, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Spain. He is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of leading economic journals such as Econometrica and the International Economic Review.
Dr. Fernández-Villaverde is the author of several books and dozens of scientific articles written in Spanish and English. He has been published also by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the Hill, among others.
Experience
- University of Pennsylvania: Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics, 2023–present; Professor of Economics, 2011–23; Director, Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets, 2017–present; Codirector, Business, Economic, and Financial History Project, Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation, 2022–present; Faculty, Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 2022–present; Director, Penn Institute for Economic Research, 2011–12; Associate Professor of Economics with tenure, 2007–11; Assistant Professor of Economics, 2001–07
- University of Texas at Austin: Nonresidential Fellow, Civitas Institute, 2022–present
- CESifo Research Network: Member, 2020–present
- Bank of Spain: Visiting Scholar, 2016–present
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago: Visiting Scholar, 2014–present
- Centre for Economic Policy Research: Research Fellow, 2006–present
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia: Visiting Scholar, 2002–present
- National Bureau of Economic Research: Research Associate, 2001–present; Faculty Research Fellow, 2005–07
- Columbia University: Wesley Clair Mitchell Visiting Research Professor, spring 2022
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: Visiting Scholar, 2021
- University of Oxford: Visiting Professor, Trinity terms 2018, 2019, and 2021; Visiting Professor, Nuffield College, Hillary and Trinity terms 2017
- Harvard University: Visiting Professor, spring 2018 and spring 2019
- University of Melbourne: Visiting Professor, August 2017
- Hoover Institution: National Fellow, 2014–15
- University of Cambridge: Visiting Scholar, Cambridge-INET Institute, 2015
- Princeton University: Kenen Fellow in International Economics, 2013–14
- University of Chicago: Visiting Scholar, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, 2014
- Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA), Spain: Research Associate Chair (Director de Cátedra), 2009–13
- Yale University: Visiting Professor, 2012; Visiting Associate Professor, 2008
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Visiting Scholar, 2010
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Visiting Scholar, 2002–08
- Duke University: Associate Professor of Economics, 2006–07
- New York University: Visiting Assistant Professor, 2005–06
Education
PhD, economics, University of Minnesota
BSc, economics and management, and LLB, ICADE, Madrid, Spain
Latest Work
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Research, Books, Speeches, and Testimonies
The (Un)Intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions Through the Dark Shipping of Sanctioned Oil
Taming the Curse of Dimensionality: Quantitative Economics with Deep Learning
