About

Cesar Sosa-Padilla is an economist with research interests in the fields of international macroeconomics, sovereign debt and default, fiscal policy, and geoeconomics. Most of his recent research has focused on understanding sovereign default crises. Before coming to Notre Dame, Cesar was an Assistant Professor of Economics at McMaster University (Canada). At Notre Dame he teaches macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and international economics at the graduate level. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics and Oxford Open Economics. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017.

 

Thematic Interests

International economics and finance, macroeconomics, fiscal policy, credit risk, computational economics

Current Research

Understanding sovereign default crises, in particular their costs for the real economy and the financial sector. I am also interested in the design of public policy aimed at minimizing the disruptive effects of sovereign defaults.

Research Sub-Discipline
Regions

Journal Articles

Working paper (non-Kellogg)

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions
  • Faculty Research Fellow, NBER (2020- )
  • Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, CSC Collegiate Chair (2018–21)
  • Kenen Fellow, Princeton University (2019–20)
  • Luksic Family Collaboration Grant (2017-18): "The Notre Dame-PUC Luksburg Conference on Recent Advances in Macroeconomics"
  • John Charles Polanyi Prize (Economic Sciences), 2016