Marcelo Veracierto is a senior economist and economic advisor in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that position, Veracierto conducts research and analysis on labor markets and macroeconomics.
Veracierto's research has been published in various research publications, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the International Economic Review, the American Economic Review and in Economic Perspectives, the Chicago Fed's quarterly research publication.
Before joining the Fed as an economist in 1998, he served as an assistant professor at Cornell University. He has also been a visiting professor at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Veracierto received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a master's degree from the Centro de Estudios Macroeconomicos de Argentina, and master's and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Minnesota.
