
Nationality: Ecuador
Affiliation: Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Student status: University Faculty
Level of education: Ph.D.
Field of Study: Economics
Joined: October 26, 2022
Marcela GuachamÃn
Quito, EC
Member: Financial Stability, Gender and Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Core, Sustainability
Organizer: Latin America
Working groups
Research Interests
- Applied Econometrics
- Central Banking
- Debt
- Economic Development
- Economic Geography
- Economic Growth
- Economic Shocks
- Employment
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Financial Crisis
- Financial Development
- Financial Inclusion
- Financial Stability
- Financialization
- Free Trade Agreements
- Global South
- Globalization
- Human Capital
- Income distribution
- Inflation
- Informal Economy
- International Financial Institutions
- International Trade
- Keynesian Economics
- Labor markets
- Latin America
- Liquidity
- Macroeconomics
- Microfinance
- Monetary Policy
- Political Economy
- Political Economy of Development
- Private debt
- Public Economics
- Public Finance
- Public Policy
- Regional and Urban Economics
- Risk Management
- Shadow Banking
- Social inclusion
- Sovereign Debt
- Special Economic Zones
- Statistics
- Uncertainty
- Welfare Economics
About
I am a professor of economics and finance, my research is related to macroeconomic and financial risk in South America. I have also worked on studies on financial inclusion and entrepreneurship.
About my research
In my studies I specialized in creating a macroeconomic and financial index for the 10 South American countries where I identified the macro, solvency, liquidity, market and development risks presented by the countries, using the partial structural equation model, in addition I created a risk monitoring traffic light which was tested by identifying periods of crisis using the Super Vector Machine. Subsequently, I evaluated how economic and financial globalization is linked to the Macroeconomic and financial risk that countries present, using spatial econometrics in order to identify the channels of risk and systemic contagion among South American countries, linking them by export and import concentration, economic cycle behavior and commercial treaties. I also investigated the liquidity and monetary risk of these countries in order to identify how it influences a high and low inflation and economic growth regime by determining thresholds through TVAR models. Currently, I am focused on evaluating the impact of financial inclusion, financial education, entrepreneurship and the popular and solidarity economy sector in Ecuador.