NBER Profile: Mark Aguiar.

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Mark Aguiar is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Program on International Finance and Macroeconomics. He is also a professor of economics at the University of Rochester.

Aguiar received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1999. He began his academic career at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business before moving to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 2004 and then to the University of Rochester in 2006.

Aguiar's research addresses issues in open- and closed-economy macrocconomics. He has studied emerging market business cycles, sovereign debt, the political economy of capital taxation, and growth. His recent research considers the...