Searcher
Vanessa Belapatiño
Vanessa Belapatiño
BBVA Research - Senior Economist

Vanessa Belapatiño is a Research Economist at BBVA Peru since October 2015. She is focused in monitoring and assessing macroeconomic variables, as well as forecasting these variables using econometric models and financial programming.


She was previously analyst in the Economic Studies area in an economical consultancy company in Peru, see topics about labor market, taxes, and market studies.


Her research interests are focused on macroeconomic and applied economics, and he has published on these subjects.


She has a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru). She has taken courses in Master of Economics in the same university.

Latest publications

In its October meeting, the Board of the Central Bank decided to maintain the policy rate at 5.25%, surprising the consensus that had anticipated a further 25-basis-point cut. The monetary policy stance, understood as the ex-ante real reference rate, remains contractionary.
The Big Data Consumption Index moderated its growth in September, in a context of lower pension fund withdrawals. Meanwhile, the Big Data Investment Index (private and public) continued to decline in the same period, associated with the still weak private component.
GDP will grow 2.9% this year and 2.7% in 2025. Private spending will gain traction in the coming quarters, supported by more favourable financial conditions, the impact of private pension funds withdrawals, and the beginning of construction of some infrastructure projects, while public spending will moderate.