She is also an associate editor of Econometrica and a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review.
She received this award within the first seven years after completing her PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
[4] Halac was born and raised in Buenos Aires and studied economics at the University of CEMA, Argentina from 1998 to 2001.
Following her graduation in 2001, she and her husband, Guillermo Noguera, became research assistants at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and then both earned doctoral degrees in economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
[5] Her research focuses on theoretical models of how to optimally delegate decision making, such as optimal rules for firms that need to delegate investment decisions to managers with competing incentives,[3] problems of how to motivate experimentation and innovation, the design of fiscal rules to constrain government spending, and the role of reputation in maintaining productivity, addressing strategic uncertainty with incentives and information, and inflation targeting under political pressure.