Alvaro Leandro
Former Research Assistant,
Álvaro Leandro Fernández-Gil, a Portuguese and Spanish citizen, worked at Bruegel as a Research Assistant from November 2014 until July 2016 in the area of Global and European Macroeconomics. Prior to this, Álvaro worked as a Research Assistant at “la Caixa” Research. He has also worked as an intern at the Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Sussex, and a master in Specialised Economic Analysis from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
The subject of his Master's thesis was the inter-connectivity in the financial system, and its consequences for systemic risk and regulation. At the University of Sussex he wrote a dissertation on Political Business Cycles.
Álvaro’s research interests include Macroeconomics, International Finance and Political Economy.
He is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Featured work
Redesigning EU fiscal rules: from rules to standards
It is an illusion to think that EU fiscal rules can be simple.
Spanish unemployment and the effects of the 2012 labour market reform
What’s at stake: Spain is currently the EU country with the second highest level of unemployment, after Greece. The high and persistent level of unemp
Implementation of European Semester recommendations worsens further
Economic policy coordination in the EU hardly works: the initially modest implementation has worsened further.
Brexit fears weigh on markets in euro-area periphery
Markets are beginning to price in the possibility that the EU will look different on the 24th of June.