Serafín Frache

Serafín Frache

Associate Professor

Universidad de Montevideo



I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de Montevideo. My primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, numerical methods and applied econometrics. I have research experience in monetary economics, household income dynamics and their consumption and saving decisions, and how firms form their expectations.

MONT2 Econ Lab Founding Member

Publications

  • “Belief-dependent pricing decisions,” [with Rodrigo Lluberas and Javier Turen], Economic Modelling, Vol. 132, 106630, March 2024.
  • “Countercyclical prudential tools in an estimated DSGE model,” [with Javier García-Cicco and Jorge Ponce], Latin American Journal of Central Banking, Vol. 4(3), 100095, 2023.
  • “Buffer-Stock Saving and Households' Response to Income Shocks,” [with Giulio Fella and Winfried Koeniger], International Economic Review, Vol. 61(3), 1359-1382, 2020.

Working Papers

Work in Progress

  • “Evaluating export benefits along the value chain", with Francesco Amodio and Giorgio Chiovelli.
  • “Labor reallocation and inequality: measurements from Uruguay matched employer-employee data”, with Jesper Bagger, Rodrigo Lluberas, Juan Pablo Rud and Leandro Zipitría.

Policy Papers

  • “Assessing the Impact of Climate Policies in Uruguay,” World Bank Group Report, Forthcoming 2024.
  • “Un modelo estocástico de equilibrio general para la economía uruguaya con producción de commodities,” [with Helena Rodríguez], Banco Central del Uruguay, Documentos de trabajo 2021006, 2021, .
  • “Estimación de los efectos de la Ley de Inclusión Financiera en un marco Dinámico Estocástico de Equilibrio General,” [with Juan Odriozola], Banco Central del Uruguay, Documentos de trabajo 2016006, 2016.
  • “Un modelo estocástico de equilibrio general para la economía uruguaya,” Banco Central del Uruguay, Documentos de trabajo 2016002, 2016.
  • “Estimating a Risky Term Structure of Uruguayan Sovereign Bonds,” [with Gabriel Katz], Department of Economics - dECON, Documentos de Trabajo 0304, 2004.

Teaching

Universidad de Montevideo

Lecturer
  • Macroeconomics II [2018 - present]
  • Macroeconomics I (Master) [2018 - present]
  • Macroeconomics II (Master) [2021 - present]
  • Mathematical Economics I [2018 - 2022]
  • Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance (Master)[2017 - 2019]

Universidad del CEMA - Argentina

Lecturer
  • DSGE Modelling for Monetary Policy Analysis (Master & Ph.D) [2018 - 2021]

dECON - School of Social Sciences - UDELAR - Uruguay

Lecturer
  • Macroeconomics (Master) [2014 - 2017]

School of Economics and Finance - UDELAR - Uruguay

Lecturer
  • Econometrics I [2014 - 2017]
  • Econometrics II [2014 - 2017]
Teaching Assistant
  • Econometrics I [2003 - 2008]
  • Econometrics II [2003 - 2008]
  • Mathematics I [2003 - 2005]

School of Economics and Finance - Queen Mary University of London

Teaching Assistant
  • Macroeconomics II [2012 - 2014]
  • Corporate Finance II [2012 - 2013]

School of Business and Management - Queen Mary University of London

Teaching Assistant
  • Quantitative Research Methods for Business [2010 - 2011]

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