Leonardo Martinez
Last Updated: March 30, 2016
Leonardo Martinez is a senior economist in the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department. His research focuses on sovereign debt crises, fiscal rules, international reserves, household credit, and political economics. Between 2009 and 2015 Leonardo worked at the IMF Institute for Capacity Development and participated in missions with the IMF Fiscal Affairs and Western Hemisphere Departments. Before that, he worked at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond . Leonardo first studied economics at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
Email: LMARTINEZ4@imf.org
Personal WebPage: http://works.bepress.com/leonardo_martinez/
Fluent In: Spanish.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester
M.A. in Economics, University of Rochester
Lic. in Economics (Licenciatura), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
Referee Activities:
American Economic Review, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, B.E. Journals of Macroeconomics, B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics, Computational Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Letters, Economic Theory, Economica, IMF Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies
Work in progress:
International reserves and rollover risk (with Javier Bianchi and Juan Carlos Hatchondo). Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review.
Non-defaultable debt and sovereign risk (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Yasin Kursat Onder). Revise and Resubmit, Journal of International Economics.
Fiscal rules and the sovereign default premium (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Francisco Roch).
Sovereign cocos and reprofiling of debt payments (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Yasin Kursat Onder, and Francisco Roch).
Calibrating the cost of defaulting in models of sovereign defaults (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo)
Credit risk without commitment (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo)
Sovereign Bailouts (with Bulent Guler, Juan Carlos Hatchondo, and Burhanettin Kurusku)
Whatever it takes (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Yasin Kursat Onder)