Iván Werning
Born (1974-06-20) June 20, 1974
NationalityArgentine
Academic career
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
FieldMacroeconomics[1]
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (PhD)
Universidad Torcuato di Tella (MA)
Universidad de San Andrés (BA)
Academic
advisors
Fernando Alvarez
Robert Lucas
Gary Becker
Pierre-André Chiappori
Doctoral
students
Emmanuel Farhi[2]
Stefanie Stantcheva[3]
ContributionsResearch on optimal dynamic taxation
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Iván Werning (born June 20, 1974) is an Argentine economist who has served as the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014.[4]

Born in Argentina, Werning received a BA in economics from the Universidad de San Andrés, and an MA in economics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, both in Buenos Aires.[4] He received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2002, where he studied under Gary Becker, Robert Lucas, Fernando Alvarez, and Pierre-André Chiappori.[4]

Werning has been a research associate at the NBER since 2002, and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013.[4]

In 2008, he was described by The Economist as one of the world’s 8 best young economists.[5]

References

  1. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0904/arts_sciences/method.shtml
  2. Farhi, Emmanuel (2006). Three essays in macroeconomics (PDF) (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 20 Jun 2017.
  3. Stantcheva, Stefanie (2014). Optimal taxation with endogenous wages (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/90133. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Werning, Iván (2022). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
  5. "International bright young things", The Economist, December 30, 2008


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