Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2018

Marco Bonomo is Professor of Economics at Insper, where he has served as Associate Dean of Research and Research Degree Programs and as director of the Center for Finance Center (CeFi). He is currently a CNPq (Brazilian Research Council) Research Fellow, and a member of the Latin American Standing Committee of the Econometric Society, of the board of directors of the Brazilian Econometric Society, of the Brazilian Economic Cycle Dating Committee (CODACE, IBRE-FGV), and of the CVM (Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission) Behavioral Studies Nucleus. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, finance and the Brazilian economy. Price setting and, more recently, credit markets are among the main studied topics in macroeconomics. In finance, his research ranged from consumption-based asset pricing model to the effects of short-sale constraints. His work has appeared in several academic journals such as Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Development Economics. He has also done research for government and multilateral organizations, as the Ministry of Finance of Brazil, IDB, IMF, and the World Bank. He has contributed for the Brazilian academic environment serving as president of the Brazilian Econometric Society and of the Brazilian Finance Society. Previously, he has been a faculty member of EPGE-FGV and PUC-Rio. Bonomo holds a PhD degree in economics from Princeton, and MA and BA in economics from PUC-Rio.