🌍 Economist | Researcher
🎓 MSc Economics Student, University of Bonn
📊 Research Assistant, Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics
🔎 Applied Macroeconomics | Production Networks | Firm Dynamics | Income Inequality
- 📖 I am an MSc Economics student at the University of Bonn and a Research Assistant at the Institute for Macroeconomics and Econometrics.
- 🔍 My research interests are in applied macroeconomics, with a focus on production networks, firm dynamics, and income inequality.
- 🌎 My current co-authored research studies production networks, firm adjustment, trade policy, and macroeconomic shocks in emerging economies.
- 💡 I enjoy combining economic research with computational tools such as Stata, R, Python, C++, MATLAB, and LaTeX.
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📄 Network Transmission of Fiscal Demand Shocks in Commodity-Dependent Economies
With Carlos Uribe-Terán, Wladimir Zanoni, Diego F. Grijalva, and Osmel Manzano.
IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-01793, Inter-American Development Bank, 2026. -
📘 From Preferences to Reciprocity: Firm Adjustment after the EU–Ecuador Free Trade Agreement
With Carlos Uribe-Terán and Diego Grijalva.
Book chapter in Las relaciones Ecuador–Unión Europea en el siglo XXI.
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📄 The Contractionary Effects of Protectionist Trade Policy
With Carlos Uribe-Terán, Iván Gachet, and Diego Grijalva.
Review of World Economics, 161, 821–868, 2025. -
📄 How do Trade Restrictions Affect Market Diversity?
With Carlos Uribe-Terán, Diego F. Grijalva, and Iván Gachet.
IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-01687, Inter-American Development Bank, 2025. -
📄 Reallocation under Protectionism: Firm-Level Evidence from a Trade Shock
With Carlos Uribe-Terán, Diego F. Grijalva, and Iván Gachet.
SSRN Working Paper, 2025. -
📄 Evaluation of the Value Added Tax Refund Program for Elderly Population in Ecuador
With Carlos Uribe-Terán, José Martinez, and Alejandro Rastaletti.
Fiscal Management Division, Inter-American Development Bank, 2024.
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Programming and Statistical Software:
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Data Analysis and Research Workflows:
Stata | R | Python | MATLAB | Mata | LaTeX | OCR-based data extraction
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📊 Econometrics II Projects
Applied econometrics projects using data analysis and statistical modeling. -
🧮 C++ Projects
Programming projects focused on data structures and computational applications.
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🏆 Best Undergraduate Research Paper
School of Economics, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), 2024.
Awarded for the thesis Poverty Traps and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from 33 years of Labor Surveys for Ecuador. -
📚 Magna Cum Laude Distinction
Graduated with honors from the B.S. in Economics program at USFQ, 2024.