José-Víctor Ríos-Rull has been a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis since 2007 and has been affiliated with the Bank in various capacities since 1987. He was Carlson Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota from 2007 to 2015 and also taught economics at University College London and Carnegie Mellon University. In 2015 he became the Lawrence R. Klein Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Victor obtained a degree in sociology and economics from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1990 he obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on thinking simultaneously about individuals and the aggregate economy, on topics ranging from housing prices to production stocks, from credit and bankruptcy to household living arrangements, from economic fluctuations to positive models of economic policy.
In 2011, the Rafael del Pino Foundation awarded him the second Rafael del Pino Chair at the Carlos III University in Madrid.
Victor's large and well-respected body of research spans several decades and has appeared in many prestigious publications including the Journal of Political Economy the American Economic Review the Review of Economic Studies , Econometrica , Demography the International Economic Review the Journal of Economic Theory the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association . He is also a research affiliate at the European Policy Research Centre and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and directs the Rios Perez Centre for Analysis and Studies.