Nicolas Fernandez-Arias

Nicolas Fernandez-Arias is an economist in the Multilateral Surveillance Division of the IMF Research Department. Prior to this, he worked in the Western Hemisphere Department, covering the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Nicaragua. His research focuses on macroeconomics, economic growth and innovation, and combines empirical analysis and quantitative structural modeling. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics and an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University.

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• Well-Designed Regulatory and Institutional Reforms Can Boost Economic Growth
  • Published: August 25, 2026
  • Authors: Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Marwa Ibrahim, Colombe Ladreit
  • Summary: Many G20 economies face constraints from excessive labor, product-market, or consumer regulations, an IMF survey shows
• Policy Actions Can Reinforce Growth Progress in Many G20 Economies
  • Published: November 19, 2025
  • Authors: Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Shushanik Hakobyan
  • Summary: Concerted action on economic reforms can help the G20 achieve the group’s collective growth ambitions, but the reforms with the biggest payoff vary across countries
• Migration and Refugee Policies Steer People, and Economies, in New Directions
  • Published: April 15, 2025
  • Authors: Paula Beltran Saavedra, Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Samuel Mann, Carolina Osorio-Buitron
  • Summary: When destination countries tighten migration and refugee policies, it has economic ripple effects elsewhere
• G20 Economies Should Target Reforms to Boost Medium-Term Growth Prospects
  • Published: November 21, 2024
  • Authors: Paula Beltran Saavedra, Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Chanpheng Fizzarotti, Alberto Musso
  • Summary: Improving fiscal policy frameworks, fostering education and skills, and supporting the green transition can help ensure strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth
• Emerging Markets Are Exercising Greater Global Sway
  • Published: April 9, 2024
  • Authors: Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Alberto Musso, Carolina Osorio-Buitron, Adina Popescu
  • Summary: Policymakers must be ready to manage greater spillovers to the global economy as emerging markets’ influence grows
• G20 Economies Should Turn to Reforms to Improve Growth Amid Policy Tightening
  • Published: November 7, 2023
  • Authors: JaeBin Ahn, Nicolas Fernandez-Arias, Neil Meads
  • Summary: Recommended policies and reforms would boost output of major economies by up to 0.7 percent and foster more balanced, sustainable, and inclusive growth

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