Marina Mendes Tavares
Last Updated: October 6, 2023
Marina Mendes Tavares is an Economist in the Research Department (RES) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prior to join RES, Marina led the working group on the interconnections between macroeconomic policy and inequality under IMF-DFID Collaboration. This group has developed the “Macroeconomic and Distributional Analysis Toolkit” that has been used extensively at the Fund to operationalize inequality in surveillance and program countries. Ms. Tavares research interests include macroeconomics, public finance and inequality. Prior to joining the Fund Ms. Tavares worked as an assistant professor at Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and she holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota.
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/mmtecon/
Fluent In: Portuguese, Spanish.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 2011
M.A. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 2010
M.A. in Math, National Institute for Pure and Applied Math (IMPA), 2006
B.A. in Economics, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), 2003
Previous Experience:
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Assistant Professor, 2011-2013
Teaching:
November 2018, Instructor to the Internal Economics Training Course: The Application of the Heterogeneous Agent Model (HAM) in Policy Analysis, IMF
May 2018, Instructor to the Internal Economics Training Course: The Application of the Heterogeneous Agent Model (HAM) in Policy Analysis, IMF
November 2017, Instructor to the Internal Economics Training Course: The Application of the Heterogeneous Agent Model (HAM) in Policy Analysis, IMF
Fall 2013, Instructor to Seminar in Macroeconomics (join with Tim Kehoe), ITAM
Fall 2013, Instructor to Advanced Macroeconomics, ITAM
Spring 2012, Instructor to Topics in Macroeconomics (Graduate Level), ITAM