Lead Economist, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank
Vanessa Alviarez has been a Lead Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) since 2020. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2014 and was an Assistant Professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia before joining the IDB.
Her research examines how multinational corporations' location and sourcing decisions affect employment, trade patterns, firm performance, and aggregate productivity. More broadly, she studies the determinants of market power in global markets and its implications for competition and pricing. She also explores how buyer-supplier networks influence markups and price-setting within global value chains.
