Iván Werning

Iván Werning ( born June 20, 1974) is an Argentine economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Werning 2008 was mentioned as one of eight top young economists by The Economist, which, in particular, the theoretical pioneering work Wernings as well as his efforts to synthesize the thoughts of the British mathematician Frank P. Ramsey with those of the Scottish economist James Mirrlees.

Training

After receiving his B. A. of the Universidad de San Andrés and an M. A. in Economics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella Werning moved from Argentina to the United States at the University of Chicago. There he received his doctorate in 2002 under the doctor fathers Fernando Alvarez, Gary S. Becker, Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Pierre -André Chiappori with the dissertation Optimal Dynamic Taxation ( " Dynamic Optimal Taxation" ).

Professional career

After him, the University of Chicago in 2002 his Ph.D. was awarded in economics, Werning took a position as Assistant Professor at 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 of Minneapolis and as Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Finally, he was promoted by MIT Associate Professor of Economics and 2008 full professor of economics in 2007. In addition Werning since 2002 working as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ).

Research

According to the economics publication database IDEAS Werning part in the overall ranking of the 5 % of most research economists (Rank 1579). The most zitierteste Wernings 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 investigate the role of endogenous information in economic crises. The result of this analysis is that the precision of endogenous public information with the precision of exogenous private information increases.

Articles (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.