Laura D’Amato is an Associate Researcher at the IIEP-FCE (University of Buenos Aires) and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Network of Researchers in Economics (RedNIE). She teaches Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics at UCEMA and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
Until the end of 2019, she served as Principal Manager of Macroeconomic Models and Forecasts at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), where she held various positions in the Economic Research Department beginning in 1988. Previously, she worked at the Secretariat of Economic Planning of the Office of the President of Argentina.
She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the National University of La Plata. Her main research interests are macroeconomics and monetary economics. She has published academic articles on these topics in both local and international journals, as well as books and chapters in various volumes on economic history. Her most recent book is “La Economía de Perón: Una Historia Económica (1946–1955)”, Edhasa (2nd Edition, 2024), co-authored with Roberto Cortés Conde, Javier Ortiz Batalla, and Gerardo della Paolera.