Guillermo L. Ordoñez

Guillermo Ordonez is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a frequent consultant for the Philadelphia and Minneapolis Federal Reserve Banks and the Central Bank of Chile. He was previously faculty at Yale, earned a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, a M.A. in Economics from ILADES/Georgetown University and a B.A in economics from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina). He is currently an editor at the Journal of Economic Theory (JET) and a foreign editor at the Review of Economic Studies and was formerly an associate editor at JEEA, Theoretical Economics and the Review of Economic Dynamics. He has received several multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation and has regularly co-organized several yearly conferences on macro-finance (at Wharton, the NBER Summer Institute. EIEF and UPenn).

Professor Ordonez is a macroeconomist specialized on the study of banking, financial crises and information imperfections in financial markets. Recently, he has focused on how information processing affects the functioning of sovereign debt auctions, the formation of shadow banking and interbank networks, the use of collateral in credit markets and the economic outcomes surrounding financial crises.