Fernando Avalos

Fernando Avalos

Senior Economist
Monetary and Economic Department, Financial Stability Policy

Fernando Avalos joined the BIS in the spring of 2011. He previously served as economist for Banco Itaú, in charge of covering the four Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Prior to that he was at the Central Bank of Argentina, where he launched and directed a department concerned with monetary and financial modelling. He also worked as economic and financial consultant in NERA Economic Consulting (New York), and performed consulting duties for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Securities Commission of Peru, among others. Fernando holds a PhD and MA in economics from the University of Chicago.

Fields of interest

  • Financial markets
  • International finance
  • Monetary policy

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April 2014

by Fernando Avalos

in Journal of International Money and Finance
October 2011

by Fernando Avalos

in Papers and proceedings of the 2011 conference on "Challenges of macroeconomic policy in emerging and developing economies"
Nov 2022

by Emmanuel C Mamatzakis and Fernando Avalos

in Journal of International Money and Finance
June 2017

by Andreas Schrimpf, Emanuel Kohlscheen and Fernando Avalos

in International Journal of Central Banking