Professor
Fields: International Trade
Natalia Ramondo is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Boston University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), and the CESifo research network. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and a B.A. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Before joining Boston University, she held faculty appointments at the University of California, San Diego; Arizona State University; and the University of Texas at Austin.
Her research is focused on globalization issues at the intersection of international trade, multinational production, and macroeconomics. She develops theoretical and quantitative frameworks to study the distributional and welfare implications of trade and foreign direct investment, the role of multinational enterprises in global value chains and the environment, and the dynamic responses of firms to shocks in general equilibrium.
Prof. Ramondo has published her work in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies, and she is frequently invited to present her research at major conferences and leading universities worldwide, as well as Central banks and international organizations. She has also been recognized with research support from the National Science Foundation and Sloan Foundation.
She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. At Boston University, she actively mentors graduate students and helps foster the department’s research community in international and spatial economics.