Post-Doctoral Fellow
Ana María Herrera
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University

Ana María Herrera is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. Her research interests are macroeconomics, monetary policy, and econometrics. Her current research focuses on the macroeconomic effects of oil price shocks, with particular emphasis on the role of inventories in explaining the significant time delay between the occurrence of a sharp increase in the price of crude oil and the following slowdown in U.S. GDP growth. More recently, she has been interested in whether the change in the monetary policy rule during the Volcker-Greenspan era is at least partially responsible for the change in how the economy responds to oil price shocks. She holds a PhD. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Osmel Manzano

Principal Economist

Andean Development Corporation

Osmel Manzano is Principal Economist at the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) since August 2000, and Coordinator of the Research Program since March 2002. He is also Assistant Professor at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello since September 2000 and has been invited to teach at different Latin American universities. He has been working on the issues of development on resource abundant countries with an emphasis on oil abundance. He is currently working on the interactions of price volatility with the tax structure of the oil sector and its effects on investment, fiscal revenue and macroeconomic stability. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Juan-Pablo Montero is Associate Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Chile, Research Associate at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and was Visiting Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management during 2001-2002. Professor Montero received a Civil Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His research concentrates on the fields of industrial organization and environmental economics and has appeared, among others, in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Journal of Public Economics, RAND Journal of Economics and Journal of Law and Economics. He is in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Economics and the International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, and is Co-Editor of Cuadernos de Economia-Latin American Journal of Economics. He also has been a consultant for the Government of Chile, private corporations and international organizations.

Ian Sue Wing is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Boston University (BU), and a research affiliate of the Center for Energy & Environmental Studies at BU and the Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Management & Policy from MIT and a M.Sc. in economics from Oxford University, where he was the 1994 Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Sue Wing conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy, with an emphasis on climate change and computational general equilibrium (CGE) analysis of economies' adjustment to macroeconomic shocks. His current research includes investigation of the sources of long-run change in the energy intensity of the U.S. economy, the theoretical and empirical performance of absolute versus intensity-based emission limits under economic and environmental uncertainties, the implications of trade-mediated international productivity spillovers for global carbon emissions and leakage, and the performance of different methods of representing endogenous technological change in CGE models for climate change policy analysis. He is currently supported by a grant from the Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Gernot Wagner

Ph.D. Candidate, Political Economy and Government

Harvard University

Gernot Wagner is a Ph.D. student in Political Economy and Government at Harvard, where he is a pre-doctoral fellow in the Environmental Economics Program. His research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, growth and development. Under the Repsol Fellowship, Gernot plans to conduct a comparative accounting study of social and environmental costs across different energy sources. His work so far has focused on issues relating sustainability and green accounting. Gernot was awarded a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for his undergraduate thesis. An Austrian citizen, he holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard and a master's in economics from Stanford.