Eduardo   Gilberto   Loría   Díaz   de   Guzmán   holds   a   PH.D. in   Economics   from   the   National   Autonomous   University of    México    (UNAM    for    its    acronym    in    Spanish);    a Master´s    Degree    in    Economics    from    the    Center    for Economic     Research     and     Teaching     (CIDE     for     its acronym in Spanish). He   is   Full-Time   “C”   Research   Professor   and   recognised with     the     “Academic     Faculty     Performance     Bonus Program”   (PRIDE   D   for   its   acronym   in   Spanish)   in   the Department    of    Economics,    UNAM,    since    1992.    He belongs   to   the   National   System   of   Researchers   (SNI   for its   acronym   in   Spanish)   as   a   National   Researcher   Level III.    Founder    and    coordinator    of    both    the     Center    for Modeling    and    Economic    Forecasting    (CEMPE    for    its acronym    in    Spanish)    and    the    Graduate    Program    in Applied Econometrics at the UNAM. His   research   lines   are   macroeconometric   and   forecast modeling,   focused   on   explaining   the   slow   growth   of   the Mexican   economy.   He   has   written   22   books,   22   book chapters    and    111    published    articles    in    national    and international   journals   with   arbitration   and   impact   factor. He   has   1782   citations   with   an   h-index:   23   and   g-index: 32.