Victoria Vanasco is a Researcher at the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). She is also a Fellow of CEPR.

Her research focuses on topics related to information asymmetries and their impact on financial markets and the real economy. She is particularly interested in the factors that lead to information and belief heterogeneity, on how these factors may impact incentives of market players to screen and monitor assets, and on the study of regulatory policies to increase liquidity and discipline in markets. 

Before joining the BSE research community, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before earning her PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley, she spent two years as a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank.