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Guillermo Ordonez is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Department of Economics and the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics. He holds a PhD from UCLA and has previously worked at the Minneapolis Fed and Yale University. His research focuses on macroeconomics, financial crises, and information imperfections in financial markets, with a particular interest in sovereign debt, information spillovers, and political economy dynamics. He co-authored the book Macroeconomics and Financial Crises with Gary Gorton, which explores the intrinsic link between macroeconomic variables and financial crises.
His academic roles include being a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His work spans theoretical and applied economics, with recent contributions on topics like shadow banking, pandemic policy impacts, and technological progress in financial systems. He is based at the University of Pennsylvania, where he contributes to both undergraduate and graduate education in economics and finance.
Research Interests: Financial crises, information economics, sovereign debt dynamics, political economy, and macroeconomic policy design. His work emphasizes how information asymmetries and network structures influence financial stability and market outcomes.
Key Contributions: Developed frameworks explaining how credit booms and information dynamics trigger crises, analyzed the Eurozone crisis through information spillovers, and explored optimal debt auction mechanisms under uncertainty. His research bridges theoretical macroeconomics with real-world policy challenges.
Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the NBER and the Department of Economics at UPenn, collaborating on projects related to financial stability and macroeconomic policy.
