St. Louis Fed Economist Restrepo-Echavarria Appointed Secretary of the Society for Economic Dynamics

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ST. LOUIS – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Policy Advisor Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria has been appointed secretary of the Society for Economic Dynamics (SED).

SED is a scientific society that encourages and supports economic research through publications, conferences and web dissemination. Restrepo-Echavarria co-chaired SED’s meeting in Cartegena, Colombia, June 29-July 1, 2023. In 2019, the St. Louis Fed co-hosted a SED meeting in coordination with Washington University in St. Louis.

Restrepo-Echavarria's research interests include international macroeconomics and search theory. Her work on the direction of capital flows, debt crises, sovereign default in commodity-rich economies, the incidence of the informal sector in the macroeconomy, labor market frictions, and theoretical models of the marriage and dating market has been published in prestigious journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory and the European Economic Review. In 2005, she received the Rodrigo Gomez International Central Banking Award from the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies for her work on inflation targeting.