Iván Werning (born June 20, 1974) is an Argentine

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who has served as the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

since 2014. Born in

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, Werning received a BA in

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from the

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, and an MA in economics from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, both in

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. He received a

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in economics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

in 2002, where he studied under

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

Robert Lucas The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...

, Fernando Alvarez, and

Pierre-André Chiappori Pierre-André Chiappori is a French- Monégasque economist who is currently the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on household behavior, general equilibrium and mathematic ...

. He joined the Department of Economics at

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as an

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in 2002, where he was

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in 2007, and appointed the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics in 2014. Werning has been a research fellow at the NBER since 2002. He was elected a

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of the

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in 2013, and was elected to the

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in 2015. In 2008, he was described by ''

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'' as one of the world’s 8 best young economists.

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External links

Website at MIT
1974 births Living people 21st-century Argentine economists University of Chicago alumni Torcuato di Tella University alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences {{Argentina-economist-stub