Isaac Baley

UPF and BSE

PhD, New York University

Research interests

  • Macroeconomics
  • Information Frictions
  • International Economics
  • Labor Economics
  • Development
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Isaac Baley is Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Associated Researcher at CREI, and
Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He is also a Research Affiliate of CEPR.

He received his PhD in Economics from New York University and a Master in Economic Theory from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

His research has the objective to understand how agents behave in environments with information frictions and the implications of these choices for macroeconomic outcomes. His work spans a wide range of topics including firm’s pricing behavior, monetary policy, international trade and labor markets.

Previously he was economic advisor at the Mexican Ministries of Economics and Finance, where he was responsible for designing and implementing policies to expand access to financial markets.

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Isaac Baley,Ana Figueiredo,Cristiano Mantovani, andAlireza Sepahsalari
BSE Working Paper 1538
December 2025
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Isaac BaleyandJavier Turén
BSE Working Paper 1476
January 2025
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Isaac BaleyandAndrés Blanco
BSE Working Paper 1312
January 2022
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Isaac Baley,Lars Ljungqvist, andThomas J. Sargent
BSE Working Paper 1288
September 2021
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Isaac BaleyandLaura Veldkamp
BSE Working Paper 1287
September 2021
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Isaac Baley,Ana Figueiredo, andRobert Ulbricht
BSE Working Paper 1151
February 2020
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Isaac BaleyandAndrés Blanco
BSE Working Paper 1116
September 2019
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Isaac Baley,Lars Ljungqvist, andThomas J. Sargent
BSE Working Paper 1019
February 2018
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Isaac BaleyandAndrés Blanco
BSE Working Paper 918
July 2016
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Isaac Baley,Laura Veldkamp, andMichael Waugh
BSE Working Paper 917
July 2016

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Isaac Baley, Lars Ljungqvist, and Thomas J. Sargent
The Economic Journal

February 2025
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Isaac Baley, Lars Ljungqvist, and Thomas J. Sargent
Review of Economic Dynamics

October 2023
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Isaac BaleyandAndrés Blanco

September 2022
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Isaac Baley, Ana Figueiredo, and Robert Ulbricht
Journal of Political Economy

May 2022
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Isaac BaleyandAndrés Blanco
Econometrica

January 2021
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Isaac Baley, Laura Veldkamp, and Michael Waugh
Journal of International Economics

June 2020
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Isaac Baley
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

January 2019

BSE Focus

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Macroeconomics
September 2025
The Hidden Beliefs of Professional Forecasters
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