ProfileI am a Senior Economist at the IMF's Research Department. Here is a short bio.
My research and policy work focuses mainly on fintech and macro-financial interactions. I am an Associate Editor of the IMF Economic Review. You can reach me at: iagur [at] imf.org Selected recent highlights Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies (2022) Journal of Monetary Economics. 2nd place on the JME list of the "most cited articles since Jan. 2021" Over 300 citations on Google Scholar. Bank Competition and Household Privacy in a Digital Payment Monopoly (2023) CEPR DP. Also: IMF WP. Lessons from Crypto Assets for the Design of Energy Efficient Digital Currencies (2023) Ecological Econ. Key entry on Wiki page on Bitcoin & the environment. |