Ricardo Meirelles de Faria holds a Ph.D in Economics from the Getulio Vargas Foundation at Sao Paulo (2006), and participated in academic exchange programs at Università Luigi Bocconi at Milan-Italy in 1995 and Georgetown University in Washington-DC during 2000/2001. He was an academic economist and professor at Mackenzie University and FGV. His main areas of research are monetary and fiscal policy. He has also worked at Citibank, Dupont, BDO Consultant Group. He is presently investment director at Trindade Investiment and chief-economist of Linus Galena, a private economic research and consulting firm in Sao Paulo. http://www.linusgalena.com
Recent Blog Posts by Ricardo Meirelles
- The End of the Official Brazilian Floating Exchange Rate
- Brazil: The Pitfalls of Our Short and Mid-Term Economic Scenarios
- Propensities, the bad news principle, Brazil and the global financial crisis
- The recent Brazilian FX market: a few comments
- 2008: Possible Impacts of a US Slowdown in Brazil
- Brazil: Against the Renewal of the Tax on Financial Transactions (CPMF)
- Volatility and Emerging Markets Financial Systems: Notes on a Conference
- Brazil: Good Policies and Good Luck
- Latin America (Brazil): three scenarios for the global markets correction
- Global imbalances and the Brazilian Real: What Comes Next?
