NBER Profile: Aaron Tornell.

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Aaron Tornell is an NBER Faculty Research Fellow in the Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics and a professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico in 1983 and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1987.

From 1987-9, Tornell was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia University. Pie then served as an advisor to the Minister of Finance of Mexico (1 989-9 1) and Associate Managing Director of the Soros Fund (1992). Returning to academe, he became an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University in 1993 and was promoted to associate...