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Cristina Fuentes-Albero

Economist Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section Research and Statistics
202-973-6971
cristina.fuentes-albero@frb.gov

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
  • M.A., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • M.Sc., Economic Analysis, Universitat de Valencia (Spain), 2004
  • B.A., Economics, Universitat de Valencia (Spain), 2002
  • Principal Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2017 - present
  • Senior Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2015 - 2017
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2013 - 2015
  • Assistant Professor

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    2010 - 2013
  • Andrés, Javier, José E. Boscá, Javier Ferri, and Cristina Fuentes-Albero (forthcoming). "Households' Balance Sheets and the Effect of Fiscal Policy, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
  • Chung, Hess, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Matthias Paustian, and Damjan Pfajfar (2020). "Latent Variables Analysis in Structural Models: A New Decomposition of the Kalman Smoother," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-100. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Carlson, Mark, Stefania D'Amico, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Bernd Schlusche, and Paul Wood (2020). "Issues in the Use of the Balance Sheet Tool," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2020-071. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Fuentes-Albero, Cristina (2019). "Financial Frictions, Financial Shocks, and Aggregate Volatility," Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1651-1689.
  • Andrés, Javier, José E. Boscá, Javier Ferri, and Cristina Fuentes-Albero (2020). "Household's Balance Sheets and the Effect of Fiscal Policy," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2018-012r1. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Chung, Hess, Cynthia Doniger, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Bernd Schlusche, and Wei Zheng (2018). "Simulating the Macroeconomic Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies," FEDS Notes 2018-07-20. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
  • Caldara, Dario, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Simon Gilchrist, and Egon Zakrajšek (2016). "The Macroeconomic Impact of Financial and Uncertainty Shocks," European Economic Review, vol. 88, pp. 185-207.
  • Fuentes-Albero, Cristina, and Leonardo Melosi (2013). "Methods for Computing Marginal Data Densities from the Gibbs Output," Journal of Econometrics, vol. 175, no. 2, pp. 132-141.
  • Rios-Rull, Jose, Frank Schorfheide, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Maxym Kryshko, and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (2012). "Methods Versus Substance: Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks," Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 826-846.
  • Fuentes-Albero, Cristina, and Santiago Rubio (2010 ). "Can International Environmental Cooperation be Bought?" European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 202, no. 1, pp. 255-264.
  • Fuentes-Albero, Cristina (2010). "Essays on Financial Frictions, Propagation of Shocks, and Macroeconomic Volatility," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

  • conference

    2013

    9th Dynare Conference (Shanghai)

  • seminar

    2013

    Gunghua School of Management, Peking University (Beijing)

  • seminar

    2013

    Tsinghua University (Beijing)

  • seminar

    2013

    Georgetown University

  • conference

    2013

    North-American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM) at USC

  • seminar

    2013

    Board of Governors

  • seminar

    2013

    Philadelphia Fed

  • discussion

    2013

    AEA meetings in San Diego

  • discussion

    2012

    NBER Workshop on Methods and Applications for DSGE Models, Atlanta Fed

  • conference

    2012

    Applied Time Series Workshop at the St. Louis Fed

  • seminar

    2012

    Fordham University

  • seminar

    2012

    Bank of England

  • seminar

    2012

    Bank of Portugal

  • seminar

    2012

    Bank of Spain

  • conference

    2011

    AEA meetings in Denver

  • conference

    2011

    Midwest Macro Meetings at Vanderbilt University

  • conference

    2011

    Workshop on the Interaction between monetary policy and financial stability at the Norges Bank

  • conference

    2011

    Greater New York Metropolitan Area Econometrics Colloquim at UPenn

  • conference

    2011

    17th Conference on Computing and Finance

  • seminar

    2011

    CUNY

Referee
  • American Economic Review
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
  • International Economic Review
  • Quantitative Economics
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • European Economic Review
  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • Journal of Banking and Finance
  • Economic Letters
  • Bank of England Working Papers
Last update: December 14, 2020