VICTOR
AGUIRREGABIRIA
Professor in Economics
Short Bio
Victor Aguirregabiria is
Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He has previously held
appointments at the University of Western Ontario, University of Chicago, and
Boston University. He is a graduate from CEMFI. He has served as Editor of the Journal
of the Spanish Economic Association, and as Associate Editor of the Journal
of Economic Literature, Quantitative Economics, Journal of
Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, International
Journal of Industrial Organization, and Quantitative Marketing and
Economics. He is Lifetime Fellow of the International Association for
Applied Econometrics, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy
Research, Honorary Fellow of the Spanish Economic Association, and
Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Canada. His research has been published in
leading journals, including Econometrica,
Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, and RAND
Journal of Economics. Professor Aguirregabiria’s research focuses on models, methods,
and applications in Empirical Industrial Organization, with emphasis on dynamic
structural models of oligopoly competition. Among his current research projects,
he is working on evaluating the contributions of market power, product
differentiation, brand switching costs, price stickiness, and firms’ biased
beliefs to the short and long run effectiveness of monetary shocks.