(Bloomberg) -- Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, recounts how a male high school teacher sparked her interest in economics with his passion for the subject, and says in order to succeed in economics, women must be passionate about it, never give up, and "have the grit that is necessary to succeed."
Restrepo-Echavarria, who specializes in international macroeconomics, focusing on capital flows and sovereign defaults, as well as the theory of search and matching, speaks with Bloomberg Global Economics and Policy Editor Kathleen
Hays at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.