Career
His work has been recognized by the Mexican government with Level II membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Cabral Torres holds a bachelors in economics from the Tec de Monterrey, a masters in finance from the Tec of Monterrey as well as amasters and doctorate in economics from the University of New York His specialties include international economics, monetary policies and macroeconomics.
His research work centers on changing regimens, international commerce patterns, monetary policies and debt issues in emerging economies.
He is currently a professor and researcher with EGAP at the Monterrey Campus, and his given classes in macroeconomics in various parts of Mexico and abroad. He teaches dynamic macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and two courses at the graduate level, open economy macroeconomics and time series methods for forecasting.
He has also worked as a consultant for various companies, state and federal governments as well as international agencies as part of the Centro de Estudios Estratégicos of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. He has written one book with co author Daniel Villarreal Cabello European Union-Mexican, legal, commercial, and business relations. The European Union-Mexico agreement: What has happened to trade and capital flows since 2000? (2010), along with journal articles in publications such as the Journal of Development Studies in the United Kingdom, the North American Journal of Economic and Finance and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
His most cited work is Does Inflation Targeting Matter for Output Growth? Evidence from Industrial and Emerging Economies (2008), in Policy Research Working Paper Series and the most downloaded item is Intra-industry trade effects on Mexican manufacturing productivity before and after North American Free Trade Agreement (2011) in the Journal of International Trade & Economic Development.
His work has been recognized by the Mexican government with Level II membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.
