Veronica Warnock

Ph.D. in Economics, Fordham University;
A.B. in Economics, Ateneo de Manila University

Assistant Professor

Veronica Cacdac Warnock is Lecturer with the Urban and Environmental Planning department at the School of Architecture. She teaches PLAN 541 - Economics and the Built Environment in the spring semester.

Veronica taught the following economics courses for Semester-at-Sea Fall 2008 Voyage: Urban Environmental Economics, Development Economics & Policy, and Conversations on Development.

At the core of Veronica’s research is development and equity, with a current focus on expanding access to finance and financial sector development. She is working on a credit assessment system for housing microlenders in South Africa—partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with DIG and FinMark Trust. She has also worked on research for the World Bank, IFC, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Previously, Veronica was Senior Economist and Director at Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, DC and was Research Associate at Haver Analytics, Inc in New York City. She also taught economics at Colegio San Agustin in Manila.

Veronica is Batten Fellow at the Batten Institute at Darden Business School, where she co-teaches the graduate research seminar Markets in Human Hope. She is Principal of CW Economics Group, LLC and an adviser to Student Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) and ecoMOD—a multiyear design/build/evaluate project that constructs ecological, affordable, and modular house prototypes.

Areas of expertise and interest:
o Urban Economics
o Affordable Housing
o Housing and Housing Finance
o Financial Sector Development in Emerging Market Economies

Research and publication activities considered most significant or timely:
o Housing Microfinance
o National Housing Finance Systems
o International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates