Iván Werning (born June 20, 1974) is an Argentine economist who has served as the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014.[4]
Iván Werning | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 20, 1974 |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics[1] |
| Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD) Universidad Torcuato di Tella (MA) Universidad de San Andrés (BA) |
| Academic advisors | Fernando Alvarez Robert Lucas Gary Becker Pierre-André Chiappori |
| Doctoral students | Emmanuel Farhi[2] Stefanie Stantcheva[3] |
| Contributions | Research on optimal dynamic taxation |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Born in Argentina, Werning received a BA in economics from the Universidad de San Andrés, and an MA in economics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, both in Buenos Aires.[4] He received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2002, where he studied under Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Fernando Alvarez, and Pierre-André Chiappori.[4] He joined the Department of Economics at MIT as an assistant professor in 2002, where he was tenured in 2007, and appointed the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics in 2014.[4]
Werning has been a research fellow at the NBER since 2002.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.[4]
In 2008, he was described by The Economist as one of the world’s 8 best young economists.[5]
References
edit- ^ "The University of Chicago Magazine: Arts & Letters".
- ^ Farhi, Emmanuel (2006). Three essays in macroeconomics (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 20 Jun 2017.
- ^ Stantcheva, Stefanie (2014). Optimal taxation with endogenous wages (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/90133. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Werning, Iván (2022). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
- ^ "International bright young things", The Economist, December 30, 2008
External links
edit- Website at MIT Archived 2009-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
  | This biographical article about an Argentine economist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |