Francisco Roldán

I am an Economist at the IMF's Research department and a senior researcher at RedNIE. I received a PhD in Economics from New York University in 2019.

My research topics are in macroeconomics, international finance, sovereign debt, and credibility. Here is my research statement.

Find here my CV and latest research.

Contact info

International Monetary Fund 700 19th St NW Washington, DC 20431

froldan@IMF.org

News

The Perils of Bilateral Sovereign Debt (with C. Sosa-Padilla) is out as NBER Working Paper 35590
Upgrading the Global Financial Safety Net: Implications of a Synthetic Reserve Deposit (with G. dell'Ariccia, P. Farahmand, P.O. Gourinchas, I. Mak, and A. Peralta-Alva) is out as IMF Working Paper No. 26/135
Discussion of The Austerity Threshold, by V. Elenev, T. Landvoigt, and S. van Nieuwerburgh, at Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt (IMF, Apr. 2026)

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