MIGUEL A. IRAOLA

Assistant Professor of Economics, Centro de Investigación Económica, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

EDUCATION

Degree	Field	Institution	Year

Ph.D.	Economics	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	2009

M.A.	Economics	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	2002

M.A.	Business Administration and Quantitative Methods	Universidad Pública de Navarra	2000

B. A.	Economics	Universidad Pública de Navarra	1999

RESEARCH AND PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigación Económica (ITAM), Mexico City, Mexico, August 2007-Present.

Teaching Assistant, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, September 2000-July 2007.

Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University, November-December 2003.

Research Assistant, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, September 1998-June 1999

Traineeship, Banco Central Hispanoamericano, Pamplona, Spain, Summer 1998.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Technological Change, Computable General Equilibrium.

PUBLICATIONS

“Speculative Bubbles,” with Manuel S. Santos, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition,2008.

“Market Fundamentals,” with Manuel S. Santos, The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2008.

MANUSCRIPTS

“Long-Term Asset Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations,” with Manuel S. Santos, ITAM working paper 09-09, 2009.

''Asset Prices in an Economy with Default and Collateral Requirements'', 2007.

''Optimal Monetary Policy without Bubbles'', 2007.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Long-Term Fluctuations in Financial Premiums” with Manuel S. Santos, 2009.

“Productivity and Stock Returns” with Manuel S. Santos, 2009.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), Bayona, Spain, June 2005.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, November 2006.

Universidad de Vigo, Spain, December 2006.

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, March 2007.

European Workshop in Macroeconomics, Florence, Italy, June 2007.

Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, November 2007.

Universidad de Chile, June 2009.

Banco Central de Chile, June 2009.

Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2009

Society for Economic Dynamics (SED), Montreal, Canada, July, 2010.

Banco de México, July 2010

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México (Conacyt-SEP). Research grant No. 81825 for the project: “Financial Crises: Propagations and Real Effects.” Period:2008-11.

European project "MICFINMA: Microstructure of Financial Markets in Europe", European Commission, Research Directorate-General, Cod. HPRN-CT-2002-00232, Program: VPM-I proving Human Research Potential. Period: 2002-06.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Mexico’s National Research System, level C: 2010-Present.

Short Stay Visit Grant, Fundación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2004.

Award for The Second Best Academic Record in the Economics Degree, Universidad Pública de Navarra, 1999.

Research Assistant Grant, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Spanish Government, September 1998-June 1999.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Aug. 2007-Present	Instructor. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM). Dynamic Macroeconomics I, Ph.D. Program in Economics. Advanced Macroeconomic Topics, Ph.D. Program in Economics. Financial Microeconomics I, MSc Program in Finance. Financial Microeconomics II, MSc Program in Finance. Advanced Microeconomics I, Undergraduate Program in Economics.

Sept. 2000-Jul. 2007	Teaching Assistant. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Accounting I, Undergraduate Program in Business Administration. Accounting III, Undergraduate Program in Business Administration. Management Methods, Undergraduate Program in Business Administration . Accounting for Senior Management, Undergraduate Program in Business Administration.

Apr.-May 2003	Instructor. Instituto Universitario de Postgrado (IUP), Spain. Management Control, MBA

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

Referee for American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Social Choice and Welfare.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Citizenship: Spanish.

Date of Birth: July 3, 1977.

Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent).