Carlos Fernández Valdovinos

President of the Central Bank of Paraguay
President of the Central Bank of Paraguay

Carlos Fernández Valdovinos (born February 9, 1965, in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan economist. Between October 2013 and August 2018 he was the president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Education

Fernández Valdovinos earned his degree in economics from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in 1990. He received his M.Sc. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1994, and his Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago in 1999, with the presentation of the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy". Robert E. Lucas (Chairman), Larry Sjaastad,[1] and Fernando Alvarez served as members of the evaluation committee.

Career

Fernández Valdovinos began his career at the Central Bank of Paraguay as the Section Head for Monetary Programming in 1991–1992. He served as an advisor for the managing director of the Economic Research Division in 1999–2001, and was later appointed managing director of the same division in 2001 and served until 2004.

Beginning in 2004, Fernández Valdovinos transferred to the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as senior economist covering Argentina until 2006. Later, he served in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as senior economist covering the EMEA region from 2006 to 2011. Furthermore, he served as the IMF Resident Representative in Bolivia and Brazil.

On October 3, 2013, Fernández Valdovinos was nominated to replace Jorge Corvalan as president of the Central Bank of Paraguay, until August 2018.

In October 2018, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Banco Basa.

In the academic field, Fernández Valdovinos was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción and Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. He has also lectured at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, with the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy".

Honors and awards

  • Central Bank Governor of the Year 2018 - Central Banking[2]
  • Central Bank Governor of the Year 2017 - Central Banking [3][4]
  • Central Banker of the Year, Americas 2017 – The Banker [5][6]
  • Best Central Banker 2016 – Global Finance[7]
  • Best Central Banker 2015 – Global Finance[8]

Publications

  • Año nuevo, mundo nuevo (2019)[9]
  • ¿Quo vadis, Paraguay? (2018)[10]
  • Las cuatro C de los Bancos Centrales (2018)[11]
  • La revolución Fintech (2018)[12]
  • En busca de la IED perdida (2017)[13]
  • Paraguay: Regulator Statement (2016)[14]
  • Paraguay: Más allá de la Estabilidad Macroeconómica. Logros y desafíos (2016)[15]
  • Darwin y las especies (2015)[16]
  • Paraguay: Central Bank Statement (2015)[17]
  • No se construye en días de lluvia (2015)[18]
  • La hormiga y las cigarras (2014)[19]
  • ¿Estamos listos? (2014)[20]
  • El Guaraní 70 años de Estabilidad. Una Conquista de la Sociedad (2013)[21]
  • Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU Countries (2011) Fondo Monetario Internacional Working Paper No. 11/59[22][23]
  • Economic Growth in Paraguay - Coautor (2006)[24]
  • Further evidence on Friedman's hypothesis: The case of Paraguay December (2001)[25] Cuadernos de Economía, No. 115. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
  • Inflation and economic growth in the long run 16 (2003).[26] Economics Letters Elsevier-North Holland, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 167–173.

References

  1. ^ "Larry Sjaastad, scholar of international economics, 1934-2012". 9 May 2012.
  2. ^ https://d2tyltutevw8th.cloudfront.net/media/document/global-finances-central-banker-report-cards-201-1537370825.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Central bank governor of the year: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos | Central Banking". centralbanking.com. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  4. ^ "Valdovinos is victorious in the first set of Central Banking's 2017 awards | Central Banking". centralbanking.com. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  5. ^ Banker, The. "Central Banker of the Year 2017". www.thebanker.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
  6. ^ www.mascreativo.com. "Presidente del BCP es nombrado Banquero Central del Año-Américas por revista The Banker - BCP - Banco Central del Paraguay". www.bcp.gov.py. Retrieved 2017-01-06.
  7. ^ "Best Banker 2016" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Best Banker 2015".
  9. ^ "Año nuevo, mundo nuevo". Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  10. ^ "¿Quo vadis, Paraguay? - Edicion Impresa - ABC Color".
  11. ^ "Las cuatro C que los bancos centrales deben tener en cuenta - BCP - Banco Central del Paraguay".
  12. ^ https://www.ultimahora.com/la-revolucion-fintech-n1120135.htm. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[permanent dead link‍]
  13. ^ "En busca de la IED perdida". 20 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Paraguay: Regulator Statement | IFLR.com". www.iflr.com. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  15. ^ www.mascreativo.com. "Artículos de Investigación - BCP - Banco Central del Paraguay". www.bcp.gov.py. Archived from the original on 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  16. ^ Color, ABC. "Darwin y las especies - Edicion Impresa - ABC Color" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  17. ^ "Paraguay: Central Bank Statement | IFLR.com". www.iflr.com. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  18. ^ Color, ABC. "No se construye en días de lluvia - Edicion Impresa - ABC Color" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  19. ^ "La hormiga y las cigarras". 28 December 2014. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  20. ^ Color, ABC. "¿Estamos listos? - Edicion Impresa - ABC Color" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2016-09-27.
  21. ^ "El Guaraní 70 años de Estabilidad. Una Conquista de la Sociedad (2013)".
  22. ^ Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability (PDF).
  23. ^ Kerstin Gerling; Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos (1 March 2011). Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU Countries. International Monetary Fund. ISBN 978-1-4552-2300-8.
  24. ^ Fernández Valdovinos, Carlos; Alexander, Monge Naranjo (2004-05-01). "Economic Growth in Paraguay". Economic and Social Study Series. Inter-American Development Bank. doi:10.18235/0008728.
  25. ^ Fernández Valdovinos, Carlos (December 2001). "FURTHER EVIDENCE ON FRIEDMAN'S HYPOTHESIS: THE CASE OF PARAGUAY". Cuadernos de Economía. 38 (115): 257–273. doi:10.4067/S0717-68212001011500001 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISSN 0717-6821.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  26. ^ Fernández Valdovinos, Carlos (2003-08-01). "Inflation and economic growth in the long run". Economics Letters. 80 (2): 167–173. doi:10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00085-5.