Gara Afonso

Economist in the Money and Payments Studies Function at Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

Gara Afonso is an Economist in the Money and Payments Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her research interests center on financial economics and she is primarily interested in information economics, asset pricing, money markets and the study of financial crises and market liquidity. Gara Afonso received a Ph.D. in Finance from the London School of Economics in May 2008 and was a visiting graduate student at Princeton University from 2006 to 2008. She is the recipient of the 2009 Excellence Prize for Best Alumni from University Carlos III in Madrid.