João Luiz Ayres Queiroz da Silva
Personal Data
Personal Data
Address:
Research Department
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Telephone numbers:
Cell: +1 (612) 545-7936
Office: +1 (202) 623-2677
E-mail: joaoay@iadb.org
URL: www.joaoayres.com
Citizenship: Brazil (G-4 Visa)
Research Interest
International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Public Finance.
Education
Advisors: Timothy Kehoe (advisor) and Manuel Amador (co-advisor).
Employment
Research Department
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
Telephone numbers:
Cell: +1 (612) 545-7936
Office: +1 (202) 623-2677
E-mail: joaoay@iadb.org
URL: www.joaoayres.com
Citizenship: Brazil (G-4 Visa)
Research Interest
International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Public Finance.
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2017.
Advisors: Timothy Kehoe (advisor) and Manuel Amador (co-advisor).
- M.A., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2015.
- D.Sc., Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EPGE), 2011.
- M.Sc., Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EPGE), 2009.
- B.Sc., Economics, University of Sao Paulo (FEA/USP), 2006.
Employment
- 2017-present: Economics Specialist, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
- 2013-2017: Research Analyst, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
- 2009-2011: Research Assistant, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV), Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.
- 2003-2004: Intern, Fator Asset Management, Sao Paulo-SP, Brazil.
Visiting Positions
Fellowships, Honors, Grants
Teaching Experience
Working Papers
Work in Progress
Presentations
Committee Member
Referee
Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Economic Theory; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Economics and Business; Quantitative Economics; Revista Brasileira de Economia.
Computer Skills
Fortran, MATLAB, Stata, LaTex.
Languages
English (fluent), Portuguese (native), Spanish (intermediate level).
- Visiting Researcher, Departamento de Estudos Económicos, Banco de Portugal, June 2017 - July 2017.
- Visitor, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, November 2009 - October 2010.
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Columbia University, November 2009 - October 2010.
- Visiting Student, Umeå University, January 2005 - June 2005.
Fellowships, Honors, Grants
- Grant for Visiting Researcher, Departamento de Estudos Económicos, Banco de Portugal, 2017.
- Third Prize, Hardy Third Year Paper Competition, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2014.
- Distinguished Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Summer 2013.
- Participant, The Princeton Initiative: Macro, Money and Finance 2013, Princeton. Nominated by the Department of Economics of the University of Minnesota, and selected by the organizers, Summer 2013.
- Mudgett Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2011-2012.
- CNPq, Fellowship for Sandwich Doctorate, 2009-2010.
- CAPES, Fellowship for Doctorate in Economics, 2008-2011.
- CAPES, Fellowship for Masters in Economics, 2007-2008.
Teaching Experience
- Instructor, University of Minnesota. Instructor for undergraduate level course in Cost-Benefit Analysis, Summer 2013.
- Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota. Led recitation sections for graduate level course sequence in Microeconomic Analysis, 2012-2013.
- Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota. Led recitation sections for undergraduate level course in Principles of Microeconomics, Summer 2012.
- Teaching Assistant, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV). Led recitation sections in Corporate Finance for the Professional Masters Program in Finance and Business Economics, 2011.
- Teaching Assistant, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV). Led recitation sections for undergraduate level course sequence in Macroeconomics II, Risk Management, and Futures and Options, 2008-2009.
Working Papers
- "Knowledge Flows and Dark Matter," job market paper.
- "Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations," with Gaston Navarro, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles. Revise and resubmit to Journal of Economic Theory.
Work in Progress
- "Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations," with Gaston Navarro, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles.
- "Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices," with Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini.
- "The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America: Brazil," with Marcio Garcia, Diogo Guillén, and Patrick Kehoe.
- "Lack of Firm Entry and the Slow Recovery of the U.S. Economy After the Great Recession," with Gajendran Raveendranathan.
- "Price Setting in a Variable Macroeconomic Environment: Evidence from Brazilian CPI," with Rebecca Barros, Marco Bonomo, Carlos Carvalho, and Silvia Matos.
- "Sales and the Macroeconomy," with Rebecca Barros, Marco Bonomo, and Carlos Carvalho.
- "Yet More Heterogeneity in Price Stickiness, Yet Larger Monetary Non-Neutralities," with Carlos Carvalho.
Presentations
- 2017: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Temple University, PUC-Rio, Insper, Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference, Banco de Portugal, Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ) Annual Meeting.
- 2016: Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference.
- 2015: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting.
- 2009: Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) Annual Meeting 2009.
Committee Member
- 2017: Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society.
Referee
Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Economic Theory; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Economics and Business; Quantitative Economics; Revista Brasileira de Economia.
Computer Skills
Fortran, MATLAB, Stata, LaTex.
Languages
English (fluent), Portuguese (native), Spanish (intermediate level).
