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Dr. Jorge Miranda-Pinto is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Queensland. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia in 2017, M.A. in Economics from the University of Chile in 2010, and B.A. in Economics from the University of Chile in 2008. His professional career encompasses Senior Economist in the Research Department (Commodity Unit) at the International Monetary Fund since 2023 (contractual, currently on leave from UQ), Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Chile from 2021 to 2023, Lecturer at the UQ School of Economics from 2017 to 2021, Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Treasury from 2020 to 2021, and Research Analyst at the Chilean Pension Supervisor from 2009 to 2013. He has also been a Research Associate at the ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis since 2017.
A macroeconomist, Jorge Miranda-Pinto's research investigates sources of business cycle fluctuations, consequences and causes of sectoral shifts, transmission mechanisms of fiscal and monetary policy, production networks, commodity prices, service trade, and the role of firm-level and household-level heterogeneity in shaping macroeconomic volatility, recessions, and fiscal stimulus effects. His work appears in premier journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics ("Business Cycle Asymmetry and Input-Output Structure: The Role of Firm-to-Firm Networks," 2023; "A Model of Expenditure Shocks," 2025), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics ("Flexibility and Frictions in Multisector Models," 2022), Review of Economic Dynamics ("Production Network Structure, Service Share, and Aggregate Volatility," 2021), European Economic Review ("Saving Constraints, Inequality, and the Credit Market Response to Fiscal Stimulus," 2023), and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ("Production Network Diversification and Economic Development," 2024). He contributes to International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook reports (2023, 2024) and leads grants such as the Australian Research Council Discovery Project "Understanding Macroeconomic Fluctuations with Unobserved Networks" (2022–). Miranda-Pinto earned the UQ School of Economics Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018 and has supervised over 20 graduate students, many placed in PhD programs, central banks, and policy institutions.