Manuel Amador

Personal

Date of birth: January 11 of 1976
Citizenship: Cuban, Dominican

Education

Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, B.S. in Economics, 1997
P.I.M.A., Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1998
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in Economics, 2003

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 2006-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 2005-2006
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2003-2006

Publications

Commitment versus Flexibility, joint with Ivan Werning and Marios Angeletos, Econometrica, March 2006. 74(2), p. 365-396. link to journal
Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang, joint with Mark Aguiar and Gita Gopinath, Review of Economics Studies, lead article, January 2009, 76(1), p. 1-31. link to journal
Expropriation Dynamics, joint with Mark Aguiar and Gita Gopinath, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2009, 99(2), p. 473-79. link to journal

Papers under Revision

Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare, joint with P.O.Weill. Revise and resubmit requested from Journal of Political Economy.
Growth under the Shadow of Expropriation, joint with M. Aguiar. Revise and resubmit requested from Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Working Papers

Sovereign Debt and the Tragedy of the Commons, (previous title "A Political Economy Model of Sovereign Debt Repayment".
Learning from Private and Public Observations of Others Actions, joint with P.O.Weill.

Work in Progress

On the Optimality of Tariff Caps, joint with K. Bagwell.
Balanced Budget Rules, joint with M. Aguiar.
Dynamic Partnerships with Private Shocks, joint with A. Skrzypacz
Neoclassical Growth with Quasi Geometric Discounting, joint with I. Werning.

Honors and Grants

Review of Economic Studies Tour, 2003
Solow Price for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research, MIT, 2003
National Science Foundation grant, Sovereign Debt and the Tragedy of the Commons

Presentations in Seminars and Conferences.

Fall 2009: Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, Toulouse School of Economics, Bank of Portugal.
Summer 2009: NBER summer meetings, EFG-JK, Dominican Republic's Ministry of Finance.
Spring 2009: University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. Princeton, Political Economy Conference. New York University - Stern, Economic Development Conference.
Fall 2008: American Economic Association Meetings. Cornell University. Rochester University. Yale University. University of Maryland.
Spring 2008: MIT
Fall 2007: World Bank, Economic Fluctuations Fall Meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research. University of Wisconsin, at Madison. University of California, San Diego. University of Pennsylvania. Washington University at St. Louis.
Summer 2007: Conference on Complementarities and Information, IESE, Barcelona, Spain. Trinity College, IIIS, Dublin Ireland.
Spring 2007: International conference "Frontiers of Macroeconomics and International Economics", Moscow, New School of Economics. University of Montreal, Canada, American Economic Association Meetings 2007, University of Chicago, GSB.
Fall 2006: Penn State. UCLA. Stanford University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Columbia University, Business School. Cornell.
Summer 2006: Minnesota Workshop on Theoretical Macroeconomics.
Spring 2006: Wharton school of business, University of Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. World Bank. Brown University.
Fall 2005: New York University. Princeton. Harvard. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Summer 2005: NBER (International Finance and Macroeconomics) Summer meetings.
Spring 2005: London School of Economics. University of Bocconni, Italy. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. University of California at Santa Cruz. University of California at Berkeley. San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.
Fall 2004: Stanford University.
Summer 2004: Society for Economics Dynamics, Florence.
Spring 2004: University of California, Los Angeles. International Monetary Fund, Research Department. Harvard University. American Economic Association 2004 Meetings.
Fall 2003: Dallas Fed/UT Conference on Sovereign Debt.
Summer 2003: SITE Conference, Stanford. London School of Economics.
Spring 2003: Rochester. University of Chicago. University of Chicago GSB. Stanford GSB. Maryland. Northwestern. Yale. University of California, Santa Cruz. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. UCLA : Anderson School of Management. Berkeley. American Economic Association 2003 Meetings.

Professional Activities

Referee for: American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, AEJ Macro, International Economic Review, Economic Theory, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and NSF.
Program committee member for the Society of Economic Dynamics meetings in Cambridge, USA 2008.
Program committee member for the Society of Economic Dynamics meetings in Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.

Discussions

Stanford Center for International Development 2009, Latin America and Caribbean economic policy reform. Pieschacon: Oil Booms and their impact through fiscal policy.
Santa Cruz Center For International Economics, 2007, Caballero and Lorenzoni: Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis.
2007 Pacific Basin Conference at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Alfaro and Kanczuk: Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt
International conference ``Frontiers of Macroeconomics and International Economics''. Moscow 2007. Fahri and Werning: Quantitative Explorations of the Inverse Euler.
IX Workshop in International Economics and Finance, Chile 2007, Araujo and Santos: Confidence Crises, Credibility and the Inflation Target Level.
American Economic Association Meetings 2006. Duffie and Manso: Information Percolation in Large Markets.
NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics program meeting October 27, 2006. Mendoza, Quadrini and Rios-Rull: Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances.
Santa Cruz Center For International Economics, 2006. Yue: Sovereign Default and Debt Renegotiation.
LACEA Conference in Paris 2005, sponsored by the American University of Paris. Andujar: The Political Economy of Policy Reform: An analytical framework for Dominican Republic.
Stanford Conference on Health, Demographics and Economic Development 2005. Boldrin, Jones and Khan: 3 equations describing the Industrial Revolution?
Allied Social Sciences Associations, Philadelphia 2005. Hernandez-Cata: Institutions to Accompany the Market in Cuba's Future Economic Transition.
American Economic Association Meetings Philadelphia 2005. Bulow and Rogoff: Grant versus Loans.
Economic Fluctuations and Growth Meetings Chicago 2004. Bassetto and Sargent: Politics and Efficiency of Separating Capital and Ordinary Government Budgets.
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics Workshop 2004. Burstein: North-South International Mobility of Entrepreneurs.

Visiting Positions

Invited Visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Oct, 2005
Invited Visitor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, April 2009