Ricardo Caballero

Ricardo Caballero

Ford International Professor of Economics

Research Fields

Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, International Economics

Contact Information

Office Phone 617-253-0489
Email Address caball@mit.edu
Office E52-528
Assistant Name Benjamin Boehlert

Short Academic Biography

Ricardo J. Caballero is the Ford International Professor of Economics, a director of the World Economic Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an NBER Research Associate.  Caballero was the Chairman of MIT's Economics Department (2008-2011).  His teaching and research fields are macroeconomics and finance.  Caballero has an extensive list of publications in all major academic journals. Among his major awards, he was the winner of the 2002 Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society for “Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing: A Generalized (S,s) Approach”, Econometrica, 67(4), July 1999 (joint work with Eduardo Engel);  the Smith Breeden Prize by the American Finance Association  for “Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode”, Journal of Finance, 63(5), October 2008 (joint with Arvind Krishnamurthy), Journal of Finance 2014 Brattle Group Prize for distinguished papers for “Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity,” joint with Alp Simsek. In April 1998, Caballero was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society and subsequently of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2010.