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Biography

Beatriz Armend谩riz is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics,听University College London. Prior to that, she was a Lecturer in Economics at , and an Associate Professor at the . She is also affiliated to the . Her dissertation on international finance was entirely written at MIT, but she received her PhD in Economics at in Paris.

Most Relevant Research Activity听

Beatriz鈥檚 research field was initially on international finance. From her 1990 PhD dissertation, she published her first article on international in the Journal of International Economics, "

Shortly after, and thanks to her then student, Lamiya Morshed, Beatriz discovered that international finance and microcredit contracts had a common feature, namely, that both contracts were often agreed by lenders and borrowers without explicit collateral. Her research since has focused on microfinance. Beatriz鈥檚 first paper on microfinance was published in the Journal of Development Economics,

This was followed by a series of contributions to the field of microfinance, most notably, her article co-written with Christian Gollier, which appeared 听in The Economic Journal, 听and an article听co-written with Jonathan Morduch in the Journal of Economics of Transition,

Beatriz鈥檚 research with Jonathan Morduch continued. Their book titled 听was first published by MIT Press in 2005, just a year before Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit in Bangladesh, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 鈥渃reating economic and social development from below鈥�. The Armend谩riz 鈥� Morduch book was revised, and the second edition of it was published again by MIT Press in 2010.

Armend谩riz also co-edited The Handbook of Microfinance with Marc Labie for Word Scientific, and, more recently, she co-authored yet another book for MIT Press in 2017, .听This book has made Beatriz to reflect on her earlier work on international finance and learn about latest-state-of-the -art topics which are relevant to Latin America and most of the developing world.

Awards

• Savings Banks Academic History Award (2nd Prize) 鈥� joint with Aaron Graham.听World Savings and Retail Banking Institute. Brussels, Belgium. 2019
• Brains Back in Brussels. Academic Award & Research Grant.听Solvay Brussels School in Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium. 2009.
• Fighting Poverty. Academic Award in Philosophy and Poverty.听Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. 2007.
• Ra煤l Bailleres Academic Achievement Award for Academic Achievement. Instituto Tecnol贸gico Aut贸nomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico, D.F., Mexico. 2006.
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Books

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(with Felipe Larra铆n B.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2017

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(with Marc Labie)听Singapore- London: Scientific Word Publishing. 2011
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, 2nd Edition (with Jonathan Morduch), 2010, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2010. (Translated into and Chinese)