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Office: E62-515
Tel: (617) 258-8374
Fax: (617) 258-6786
E-mail: rigobon@mit.edu
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Roberto Rigobon
Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Professor of Applied Economics
Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Rigobon’s areas of research are international economics, monetary economics, and development economics. In international economics, he focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries—the phenomenon that has been identified in the literature as “contagion.” He has developed econometric techniques to determine the existence of contagion and the extent of it …