CV - Diego Vilán

Diego Vilán
Vitae, November 2014
Department of Economics
University of Southern California
3620 South Vermont Ave., KAP 300
Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0253
Phone: +1 (213) 293 - 7734
Fax: +1 (213) 740 - 8543
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http://diegovilan.net/
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Southern California, 2015 (E)
M.A. Economics, Duke University, 2008
M.A. International Finance, Brandeis University, 2004
B.A. Business, Universidad de San Andrés, 2000
References
Vincenzo Quadrini (Chair)
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
+1 (213) 740-6521
[email protected]
Selo Imrohoroglu
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
+1 (213) 740-6546
[email protected]
Juan Rubio-Ramirez
Duke University - Economics
Durham, NC 27708-0097
+1 (919) 660-1865
[email protected]
Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
+1 (314) 444-8717
[email protected]
Michael Michaux
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
+1 (213) 740-3466
[email protected]
Experience
Economist
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, July 2004 - August 2007; Nov 2008 - August 2009
Junior Consultant
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, January 2001 - August 2002
Academic Fellowships
Dissertation Fellow
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, July - August 2013
Dissertation Fellow
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, June - July 2012
Research Fellow
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, June - August 2011
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Research
Working Papers
"Demand Shocks and Endogenous Uncertainty" [ Job Market Paper ]
"Commodity Volatility and Business Cycle Dynamics in Small Open Economies"
"Uncertainty shocks in a flexible price environment"
"The Real effects of volatile terms of trade in Small Open Economies" with Hernán Seoane
"Risk considerations of the Skill Premium" with Pedro Silos
Peer Reviewed Publications
"Bayesian estimation of NOEM models: Identification and Inference in small samples", with Enrique
Martinez-Garcia and Mark Wynne, Advances in Econometrics, Vol 28., 137-199, 2012.
"Investment-specific technology shocks and international business cycles", with Juan Rubio, Pau Rabanal
and Federico Mandelman, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 14(1), 136-155, Jan 2011.
Other Publications
"Is more still better?, Revisiting the Sixth District coincident indicator", with Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta Economic Review, Q3, 2009.
"New Financing trends in Latin America", with Myriam Quispe, BIS papers, #36, February 2008.
"When more is better: assessing the Southeast economy with lots of data", with Pedro Silos, Federal
Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review, Q3, 2007.
"Buy Foreign while you can: cheap dollar and exchange rate pass through", with Eduardo Ganapolsky,
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review, Q4, 2005
Scholarships, Honors, & Awards
Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2014 - 2015
Gold Family Graduate Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2014
Economics Department Research Fellowship, University of Southern California, Summer 2012
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Southern California, 2011
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Southern California, 2010
University of Southern California Graduate Scholarship, Fall 2009 - Spring 2014
Duke University Graduate Scholarship, Duke University, Fall 2007 - Fall 2008
Brandeis University Graduate Scholarship, Brandeis University, Fall 2002 - Spring 2004
Diego Vilán
Seminars & Conference Presentations
FRB St. Louis Seminar series, St. Louis, USA, 2014
FRB Dallas Seminar series, Dallas, USA, 2014
Midwest Macro Fall meetings, Miami, USA, 2014
FRB Atlanta Seminar series, Atlanta, USA, 2014
USC Macroeconomics Seminar series, Los Angeles, USA 2014
Midwest Macro Fall meetings, Minneapolis, USA, 2013
FRB St. Louis Seminar series, St. Louis, USA, 2013
Western Economic Association, Seattle, USA, 2013
FRB Atlanta Seminar series, Atlanta, USA, 2012
Dynare Summer School, Paris, France, 2011
Western Economic Association, San Diego, USA, 2006
Society for Computational Economics (SCE), 12th International Conference, Limassol, Cyprus, 2006
LACEA Annual Conference, Paris, France, 2005
Central Bank of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 2005
LACEA Annual Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2004
Research Interests
Macroeconomics and Finance, International Economics, Monetary Theory, Time Series Analysis.
Languages
Spanish (Native), English (Fluent), French (Proficient)
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