Yan Carrière-Swallow is an Economist in the Regional Studies Division of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, where he conducts research and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the IMF in 2012, he was an Economist at the Central Bank of Chile in Santiago. His research focuses on international macroeconomics and emerging markets, and has explored the topics of investment under uncertainty, the determinants of monetary policy autonomy, the design of macroeconomic policy frameworks, and methods for nowcasting macroeconomic variables.