Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
- 2026– Faculty Member in Economics (Profesor de planta), School of Social Sciences and Government, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- 2025–2026 Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Fellow and Term Assistant Professor, George Mason University Korea
Education
- 2023 Ph.D. in Economics, George Mason University (Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science)
- 2013 M.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Andes
- 2012 B.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Andes
Fields
Applied microeconomics, experimental economics, public economics, political economy.
Publications
- “Public Good Provision and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Paul E. Carrillo and Carlos Scartascini). Journal of Public Economics, 198 (2021): 104422. DOI
Working Papers
- “Price Distortions and Hoarding: An Experiment” (with César Martinelli). GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-45, 2023. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. SSRN
- “Discretionary Procurement Flexibilization, Efficiency, and Rent-Seeking: Evidence from Chile During COVID-19” (with Anastasiya Yarygina-Udovenko and Gabriel Villalba Ortega). IDB Working Paper Series, 2026. Link
- “Imperfect Attention in Public Policy: A Field Experiment during a Tax Amnesty in Argentina” (with Carlos Scartascini). IDB Discussion Paper No. IDB-DP-665, 2019. DOI
Work in Progress
- “Beliefs About Price Controls and Zero-Sum Thinking” (with Stanislao Maldonado and Santiago Sautua)
- “Fairness, Misinformation, and Tax Policy Preferences” (with Stanislao Maldonado)
- “Affirmative Action, Sorting, and Efficiency in Competition for Selective Colleges” (with Stanislao Maldonado and César Martinelli)
- “Discretionality of Public Procurement and Efficiency: Colombia” (with Anastasiya Yarygina-Udovenko)
- “Patronage Networks and Favoritism in Colombian Public Procurement” (with Hugo Díaz)
- “Collective Deliberation: Theory and Experiment” (with Mikhail Freer and César Martinelli)
Conference Presentations
- 2026 Academics Against Corruption in the Americas, Quito; Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio
- 2025 LACEA Annual Meeting, Recife; Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, SUFE, Shanghai; APEE Annual Meeting, Antigua Guatemala
- 2022 APEE Annual Meeting, Las Vegas
- 2021 APEE Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale; Shadow Economy, Tax Behavior, and Institutions Workshop (online)
- 2019 National Tax Association Annual Meeting, Tampa
Grants and Awards
- 2024, 2025 Faculty Research and Development Award, George Mason University Korea (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
- 2024 SAET travel grant, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Santiago (awarded; did not attend)
- 2021, 2022 Young Scholar Program Award, Association of Private Enterprise Education
- 2017–2023 Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship, ICES, George Mason University
- 2007–2011 Full undergraduate scholarship “Quiero Estudiar”, Universidad de los Andes
- 2006 Best National College Admission Test Score (ICFES), ranked 1/1000 nationwide
Teaching
Tecnológico de Monterrey
- 2026 EC1025 From Micro Incentives to Macro Outcomes (De microincentivos a macroresultados)
- 2026 EC1015 Behavioral Economics (Economía conductual)
- 2026 EO 4024 Prices and Agents’ Behavior
George Mason University Korea
- 2024–2025 ECON 103 Principles of Microeconomics
- 2024–2025 ECON 306 Intermediate Microeconomics
- 2025 ECON 495 Policy Impact Evaluation
- 2024 ECON 104 Principles of Macroeconomics; ECON 311 Intermediate Macroeconomics; ECON 445 Design and Analysis of Experiments
George Mason University
- 2022 Instructor, Graduate Math Camp
- 2021–2022 Teaching Assistant, ECON 886 Experimental Economics II (Ph.D. game theory)
- 2021 Teaching Assistant, ECON 535 Applied Econometrics
- 2020–2021 Teaching Assistant, ECON 811 Microeconomic Theory II (Ph.D.)
Universidad de los Andes
- 2013–2014 Lecturer, Introduction to Microeconomics
- 2012–2013 Teaching Assistant, Regulation and Competition Policy (graduate)
Research and Professional Experience
- 2017–2023 Graduate Research Assistant, George Mason University
- 2022 Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank (IFD/FMM-0007)
- 2021 Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank (RES-0006)
- 2018–2019 Pre-Doctoral Fellow, CESED, Universidad de los Andes
- 2018 Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank (RES-0005)
- 2014–2017 Research Fellow, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC
- 2014 External Consultant, SENA, Bogotá
- 2011–2014 Researcher (intern in 2011), ECON ESTUDIO, Bogotá
Professional Activities
Referee: European Economic Review; Games and Economic Behavior; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Public Economics.
Advising: Thesis co-advisor, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima (Matías Villalba), 2023.
Summer schools: ISEO Summer School of Economics, Iseo, Italy, 2023.
Other
Software: Stata, R, Python, oTree.
Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent).