Victoria Vanasco is a researcher at CREI and a BSE Affiliated Professor. Before coming to Barcelona she was Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Victoria received her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a B.A. in Economics and a Master of Finance from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. Prior to attending Berkeley, she spent two years as a Junior Professional Associate at the World Bank, where she was part of the Finance Group for Latin America. Victoria Vanasco's research focuses on topics related to information asymmetries and their impact on financial markets and the real economy.
- ERC Starting Grant: "Information, Markets and the Macroeconomy" (2020)
- Journal of Financial Intermediation "Best Paper Award" (2019)
- BSE - "la Caixa" Foundation Research Grants on Socioeconomic Well-being (2019)
- Banque de France - Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance (2019)
- BSE Seed Grant, "Strategic Complexity / Market Opacity, Liquidity, and Quality / Aggregate Liquidity Cycles." (2018)
Working Papers
Banks vs. Firms: Who Benefits from Credit Guarantees?
Falling Interest Rates and Credit Misallocation: Lessons from General Equilibrium
Publications
Security Design in Non-Exclusive Markets with Asymmetric Information
Review of Economic Studies, Vol.91, No 2, 690-719, March 2024, 10.1093/restud/rdad056Open Access
Designing Securities for Scrutiny
Review of Financial Studies, Vol.36, No 9, 3693–3737, September 2023, 10.1093/rfs/hhad013Open Access
The Good, The Bad and The Complex: Product Design with Imperfect Information
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.15, No 2, 187–226, May 2023, 10.1257/mic.20210114Open Access