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NBER: Fernando Perez - Researchers from Banco de Mexico
Fernando Perez - Researchers from Banco de Mexico
>From: Fernando Perez Cervantes <fernandoperez_at_uchicago.edu>
>
>Mexico City, November 14, 2014
>
>Dear Denis,
>
>We are writing to present to you a joint
>application for the meetings of the NBER
>Economics of Digitization group. We currently
>work at Banco de Mexico, the Mexican Central
>Bank, where we conduct research at the
>Directorate of Prices, Regional Economies and
>Information Analysis. Gerardo is the Manager of
>the Economic Information Systems Division and
>Fernando is a researcher. We have both completed
>our graduate studies, and both of us have
>conducted intensive work and research on digitization.
>
>Gerardo has a Masters degree in Information
>Systems Administration from Carnegie Mellon
>University, and is responsible to maintain the
>datasets that the Bank produces to the public
>and for internal use (more than 66,000 series of
>data are produced or updated every day).
>Furthermore, he is also responsible for
>constructing data sets that require either data
>mining, web scrapping, or any other technique to
>give the Bank up-to-date information about
>specific issues and patterns. His current
>research is directed towards understanding how
>the new technologies have changed the way
>businesses are run, enterprises are created, and consumers are affected.
>
>Fernando, while completing his PhD in Economics
>at the University of Chicago, not only became an
>Institute on Computational Economics Fellow (a
>joint venture between the Hoover Institution,
>Argonne National Laboratory, and the Booth
>School of Business), but also has conducted
>research on transportation and information costs
>to compute sector specific dynamic and real-time
>price indices for the Bank. He is well versed
>both in computational methods and in economic modeling.
>
>Our current research at Banco de Mexico has
>shifted towards analyzing the impact of new
>information on the price-formation process, and
>we have comprehensive data on all the electronic
>monetary transactions in Mexican territory. We
>also have a data set from cell-phone carriers,
>power grids, wi-fi hotspots, and several other
>sources of what we like to call “information
>catalyzersâ€. We think that by being in contact
>with the new techniques at the NBER meetings we
>will be able to answer important questions about
>the effect of the new technologies on the
>economic environment and the economic decision-making process.
>
>Banco de Mexico will provide all of our travel
>and living expenses for those days including
>hotel, so funding will not be necessary for us
>should you accept our application.
>
>All the best,
>
>Gerardo Avilez-Alonso
>
>Fernando Perez-Cervantes
Received on Mon Nov 17 2014 - 09:35:17 EST
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