Competition & antitrust
Market definition, market power, mergers, restrictive practices, and economic analysis of business conduct.
Economic regulation
Regulatory design, public services, public enterprises, pricing, and regulatory impact assessment.
Markets & pricing
Demand, retail markets, pricing strategy, market structure, and applied industrial organization.
Empirical analysis
Econometric analysis of large datasets for policy evaluation, competition analysis, and market studies.
Institutional and consulting work
Work with international organizations, the public sector, and private clients.
International organizations
Senior consultant and project lead for the World Bank, IDB, CAF, ECLAC, PAHO, and UNDP.
Private-sector consulting
Market definition, mergers and conduct, regulation, demand and pricing analysis, and regulatory impact assessment.
Public-sector experience
- Ministry of Economy and Finance — IADB Project Manager, 2010–2013.
- Ministry of Economy and Finance — regulation, public health-care system, and bankruptcy reform, 2005–2009.
- Ministry of Economy and Finance — Chief Antitrust Economist, 2003–2009.
- Ministry of Economy and Finance, Dirección General de Comercio — economic analysis, 2003–2010.
- Office of Budget and Planning — regulatory impact analysis and pricing of public services, 2001–2003.
Academic work and policy analysis reinforce each other.
My research fields are industrial organization and applied microeconomics; my applied work concentrates on competition, regulation, and markets.