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João Luiz Ayres Queiroz da Silva
Personal Data

​Address:
Research Department
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20577

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)
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​Research Interest

International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Public Finance.

​Education

  • ​Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2017.
                Dissertation: "Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics."
                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

  • ​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
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  • ​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.

​Publications
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  • "Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations," with Gaston Navarro, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles. Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 175, pp. 803-812, 2018.

​Working Papers

  • "The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America: Brazil," with Marcio Garcia, Diogo Guillén, and Patrick Kehoe. (this is a chapter in forthcoming book The Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America)
  • "The Firm Dynamics of Business Cycles," with Gajendran Raveendranathan. (submitted)
  • "Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices," with Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini. (revise and resubmit at Journal of International Economics)
  • ​"Firm Knowledge and International Real Business Cycles." (previously circulated under the title Knowledge Flows and Dark Matter)

​Work in Progress

  • ​"Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises with Long Stagnations," with Gaston Navarro, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles.​
  • "Price Setting in a Variable Macroeconomic Environment: Evidence from Brazilian CPI," with Rebecca Barros, Marco Bonomo, Carlos Carvalho, and Silvia Matos.
  • "Yet More Heterogeneity in Price Stickiness, Yet Larger Monetary Non-Neutralities," with Carlos Carvalho.

Presentations

  • 2019: North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (NAWM), University of Houston (expected).
  • 2018: European Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), LuBraMacro, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES), MFRI/IADB Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America Conference.
  • 2017: Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 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, Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES).
  • 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.
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Committee Member

  • 2017: Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society.

Event Organizer

  • MFRI/IADB Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America Conference

​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).