Martín Uribe is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Previously he taught at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Staff Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Uribe obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, an Master degree from CEMA (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a BA degree from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Cordoba, Argentina). His