Iván Werning
Iván Werning (born June 20, 1974 ) is an Argentine economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2008, Werning was mentioned as one of eight top young economists by the Economist , who in particular synthesized Werning's theoretical pioneering work and his efforts to synthesize the thoughts of the British mathematician Frank P. Ramsey with those of the Scottish economist James Mirrlees .
education
After receiving his BA from the Universidad de San Andrés and an MA in Economics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella , Werning moved from Argentina to the University of Chicago in the United States . There he received his doctorate in 2002 under the supervisors Fernando Alvarez , Gary S. Becker , Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Pierre-André Chiappori with the dissertation Optimal Dynamic Taxation ("Optimal Dynamic Taxation").
Professional background
After graduating from the University of Chicago with his Ph.D. in Economics, Werning accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Parallel Werning worked from 2005 to 2006 as a Visiting Scholar at the branch of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and as a visiting professor of economics at the Harvard University . Finally, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Economics by MIT in 2007 and to Full Professor of Economics in 2008. In addition, Werning has been working as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 2002 .
In 2015 Werning was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
research
According to the economic publications database IDEAS , Werning is one of the 5% of the most research-intensive economists (ranked 1579) in the overall ranking. Werning's most cited article is entitled " Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity and Volatility " (2006) and was co - authored with George-Marios Angeletos . In this article Angeletos and Werning examine the role endogenous information plays in economic crises . The result of this analysis is that the precision of endogenous public information increases with the precision of exogenous private information.
Article (selection)
- Angeletos, George-Marios, Iván Werning (2006): Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity, and Volatility , in: The American Economic Review, Vol. 96, No. 5, pp. 1720–1736.
Individual evidence
- ^ Emerging economists: International young bright things , in: The Economist, December 30, 2008
- ↑ Overall ranking of the economic database IDEAS (English)
- ↑ Author profile of Iván Werning on IDEAS (English)
- ↑ http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/11015.html
Web links
- Curriculum Vitae Iván Wernings on the MIT website (PDF; 120 kB)
- Literature by and about Iván Werning in the bibliographic database WorldCat
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SURNAME | Werning, Iván |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine economist and professor at MIT |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1974 |