Ricardo J. Caballero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chilean macroeconomist
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Place of Birth: Punta Arenas, Magellan and the Chilean Antarctic Region, Chile
About Ricardo J. Caballero
- Ricardo Jorge Caballero (born 20 October 1959) is a Chilean macroeconomist who holds the Ford International chair of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- He is a director of the World Economic Laboratory at MIT and an NBER Research Associate.
- Caballero received his PhD from MIT in 1988, and he taught at Columbia University before returning to the MIT faculty.
- Recently, Caballero's work has focused on Risk-Centric Macroeconomics and Safe Assets.
- He has also studied the aggregate behavior of economies with heterogeneous agents, the macroeconomic effects of irreversible investment in firm-specific assets, and Schumpeterian theories of technological progress through creative destruction.
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