Francisco García Hernández

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Francisco García Hernandez is a Mexican economist and professor. He has been an instructor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), at the Monterrey Campus. He has published several papers and academic articles. He is the author of "Boletin de Expectativas Economicas" (Economic Expectation Bulletin).

He has been an advisor of the Valores Corporativos Board of Directors, has worked for the Alfa Group, and as a consultant for Consultoría Index Economía Aplicada among other firms. He have a bachelor degree in economics from UANL,then he earned a master degree in statistics, by Chapingo's University, and a Ph.D. in 1980 at the University of California at Riverside. In the statistics field, his preferences are bayesian statistics and econometrics; he have worked with heavyweights statisticians like Press and Zellner, among others. In the economics field he is very known by his works in applied econometrics, energy economics, international economics, and macroeconomic theory.

In August 2000, he was invited by the University of Houston to forecast the actual and future demand for electricity in the northern border of Mexico.

In December 2006, he decided to get out of the faculty profession.

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