Alberto J. Arredondo-Chavez

Alberto J. Arredondo-Chavez

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics. Colby College

Welcome! I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College. I am a macroeconomist with particular interest in firms’ investment and financing decisions. I am also interested in solution and estimation methods for macroeconomic models and economic history.

On this website you can find my updated research, cv, and some materials related to the courses I teach at the college. Please feel free to email me with any comments or suggestions related to this site or my research work.

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Computational Economics, Economic History

Hobbies: Hiking, Photography and my dog Popcorn


Working Papers

Financing constraints of capital goods producers and investment dynamics
The User Cost of Labor and Inflation Dynamics

Resting paper

Cyclical time to deliver capital goods and monetary policy

Work in Progress

Firm investment and financing when financing costs are low

with Andrew Usher

Underinvestment and the shadow values of capital and inventories

with Andrew Usher


Teaching

Money and Banking

Upper level elective

The Drivers of Economic Growth

Junior Research Seminar

Intermediate Macroeconomics