Job Market Candidate

Gabriela Best

Gabriela Best is a Ph. D candidate and will be on the job market this year. Originally from Mexico City, Gabriela completed her undergraduate economic studies at The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and at California State University, Los Angeles. Gabriela’s fields of research include monetary policy, macroeconomics, time series econometrics, behavioral economics, and international economics.

Gabriela earned a dissertation internship at the Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis in the summer of 2008. During her three months as a visiting scholar Gabriela was able to advance her research on “The Great Inflation” under the guidance of economist Edward Nelson. She also conducted two seminars on her dissertation research. Gabriela presented the first chapter of her dissertation which evaluates Mexico’s monetary policy at the Small Open Economies on a Globalized World Conference in Waterloo, Canada.

Gabriela is currently working on her dissertation under the guidance of Professor Fabio Milani. Her dissertation research explores monetary policy issues under adaptive learning. Gabriela's job market paper examines the causes of the Great Inflation. Her paper supports the view that the Great Inflation was due to policymakers’ beliefs about the state of the economy, in addition to a change in policymakers’ preferences for inflation stabilization relative to the output gap after 1979.

At UC Irvine, Gabriela served as an instructor in Econ 100C (Intermediate Macroeconomics) during the summer of 2009. Gabriela has also received multiple opportunities to serve as a teaching assistant and research assistant. She has received several research fellowships from the School of Social Science and Department of Economics.

In her spare time, Gabriela enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter Sofia. She also enjoys working out, traveling and studying French.