Regular biography
Jose Luis Montiel Olea is an Associate Professor and Louis Salvatore ‘92 Faculty Leadership Fellow in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. His research interests include econometrics, with a focus on advanced topics and applications in the field. Montiel Olea is affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and contributes to the undergraduate and graduate economics programs. His work emphasizes the integration of econometric methods with real-world policy analysis, supporting data-driven decision-making in economic contexts.
Scholar-generated biography
José Luis Montiel Olea is an Associate Professor of Economics at Cornell University, specializing in econometrics. His research focuses on developing robust statistical methods for econometric inference, particularly in the presence of weak instruments, set-identification, and model misspecification. He has contributed to the theory and application of local projections, structural vector autoregressions, and machine learning techniques in econometrics. His work addresses challenges in causal inference, policy evaluation, and robustness to distributional assumptions. Montiel Olea's research also explores the implications of fat tails, quasi-hyperbolic discounting, and decision theory under partial identification. His publications emphasize methodological innovation and empirical relevance in macroeconomics and applied econometrics.