Leonardo Auernheimer


Leonardo Auernheimer was an Argentine economist, professor, and international monetary consultant.

Early life

Auernheimer was born in Argentina to Jose Ignacio Auernheimer and Maria Elena Savanti de Auernheimer. He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1973. Before completing his doctorate, he served as a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil.

Career

After obtaining his Ph.D., he joined the economics department at Texas A&M University, where he was a professor until his death in 2010. He was department head from 2002 to 2006.
While at Texas A&M he visited the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as a visiting scholar, and was a visiting professor at ITAM, in Mexico City, the Université du centre d'études macroeconomiques d'Argentine, in Buenos Aires, and the University of Göttingen in Germany.
He was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Economics.
He consulted on macroeconomics policies for international organizations in several countries throughout Latin America and the Middle and Far East. He directed and served on dozens of dissertation committees for students around the world.

Research

His research was in the area of monetary economics and open economy macroeconomics, particularly dynamic inconsistency and the fiscal theory of the price level. He published in the premier economic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He was a frequent consultant to the World Bank in the evaluation of macroeconomic programs in many Latin American countries, as well as in Mongolia, the Republic of Georgia and Lebanon.

Books