PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 22nd February 1975
Nationality: Argentine
EDUCATION
Qualifications
- DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics (expected 2007),
Nuffield
College,
University of Oxford, UK. 2004-present
- MPhil in Economics, Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK. 2002-2004
- MPhil in Development Studies, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. 1998-1999
- Licentiate (Licenciado), MA (Magister) in Economics,
Univ. de San
Andrés, Argentina. 1993-1998
Languages
Fluent: Spanish (mother tongue), English.
Basic reading knowledge: French, Italian, Portuguese.
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Economic History, Development, Political Economy, Applied Econometrics.
AFFILIATIONS AND POSITIONS HELD
- Researcher, IGIER,
ISE and
Centro Dondena, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy. 2007-present
- Departmental Teaching Associate, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 2005-2007
- Student Research Associate, Team for the Advanced Research on Globalization, Education and
Technology (TARGET), Canada (from the UK). 2005-2007
- Assisting Editor, Journal of Economic History, Oxford, UK. 2005-2006
- Consultant, Latin America & Caribbean Region SU, World Bank, USA (from the UK). 2003-2004
- Research Assistant for Prof. Robert C. Allen, University of Oxford, UK. 2004
- Senior Analyst, Research Department, Central Bank of Argentina, Argentina. 2001-2002
- Researcher, Research Department, Central Bank of Argentina, Argentina. 2000-2001
- Junior Researcher, Centro
de Estudios para el Desarrollo Institucional, Argentina. 1998
- Researcher and Editor, Argentine Public Budget Report Project, Fundación Grupo Sophía, Argentina. 1997-1998
- Research Assistant for Prof. R. Cortés Conde, Univ. de San Andrés, Argentina. 1996-1998
- Assistant (summer job), Superintendence of Financial Entities, Central Bank of Argentina, Argentina. 1996
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate
Undergraduate
Other
- Lecturer in Public Finance, National Training Institute for Political Leaders,
Ministry of
Interior, Federal Government, Argentina. 2000
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- New Researchers Prize,
Annual
Conference of the Economic
History Society, UK. 2006
- Departmental Doctoral
Studentship, Department of
Economics, University of Oxford, UK. 2005-2007
- Humane
Studies Fellow, Institute
for Humane Studies, USA. 2003-2004
- British Chevening Scholarship,
British Embassy (Buenos Aires)
and British Council,
UK. 1998-1999
- Argentine
Mathematics Olympiads Scholarship, Univ.
de San Andrés, Argentina. 1993-1996
MEMBERSHIPS
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
RESEARCH
Works in progress
- "Old Habits Die Hard (Sometimes): What can Département heterogeneity
tell us about the French fertility decline?"
- "Malthus Persists: The Role of Mortality and Income in the French Fertility
Decline of the Long Nineteenth Century" (Provisional title)
Publications and papers
- "Modelos econométricos de predicción macroeconómica en la Argentina" ["Econometric
Models for Macroeconomic Forecasting in Argentina"] (with G. McCandless and F.
Gabrielli), Working Paper 19, BCRA, June 2001.
[paper]
- "Las PyMEs y el Mercado de crédito en la Argentina" ["SMEs and credit market in
Argentina"] (with G. Escudé, T. Burdisso, M. Catena, L. D'Amato and G. McCandless),
Working Paper 16, BCRA, July 2001.
[paper]
- Informe sobre el presupuesto público 1998 [Argentine Public Budget Report 1998],
Fundación Grupo Sophía, August 1998.
[get the report]
- "Un análisis económico del proceso de formación de leyes: el caso de la Ley de
Patentes en la Argentina" ["An Economic Analysis of Law Formation Process: the Case
of the Patent Law in Argentina"], Licentiate Graduation paper, UdeSA, March 1997.
[English abridged version]
Book reviews
- Robert Fogel, "The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death,
1700-2100", forthcoming in Revista de Demografía Histórica, Vol. 24,
No. 2, 2006.
Other
- "Just before the metre, the gram, the litre: Building a Rosetta Stone
of Weights and Measures in the Early Modern World" (with Bob Allen),
a project compiling world weights and measures for the early modern period.
[link]
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