I am an assistant professor of finance at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). I earned my Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Haas Business School, UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UAI, I was at the Finance Department at Tulane University and later at Universidad de los Andes.
My research agenda is centered around understanding how information, regulation, and social interactions shape decision-making in complex economic environments. I work across three interrelated domains: household finance, corporate finance, and applied economics, with a consistent focus on how space—both physical and social—structures economic behavior.
Publications
1.“Labor Market Effects of Deleting Delinquencies” with J Nickerson and G Maturana (Forthcoming Economic Letters)
2.“Director Networks and Misconduct” with M Braun and E Valdivieso, Global Finance Journal 2025
3.“Removing the Fine Print: Standardized Products, Disclosure, and Consumer Outcomes” with S Kulkarni and G Iberti, Journal of Financial Economics 2025
4.“Do political Parties Matter for Municipal Finances? Evidence from Property Reassessments and Estate Taxes” with F Aldunate and C Diaz, PLOS ONE 2025
5.“On the Geography of Inequality: Labor Sorting and Place-Based Policies in General Equilibrium” with A Montecinos Spatial Economic Analysis 2023
6.“Agglomeration, knowledge spillovers, and corporate investment ” with W Grieser, I Spyridopoulos and G Maturana, Journal of Corporate Finance 2022
7. “The importance of Large Shocks to Return Predictability” with J Diaz, H Galindo, A Montecinos and D Duarte, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 2021
Working Papers
1. “The Ripple Effect: ESG Decisions in Director Networks” with M Braun, V Corral and C Raddatz
2. “Shocked into Action: ESG Diffusion Through Director Networks” with M Braun, V Corral and C Raddatz
3.“Estimating the Information Component in Switching Costs: A Structural Approach” with S Kulkarni and G Iberti
4.“Spillovers and Fairness: The Owens Valley Controversy as a Game of Spatial Externalities” (link) with J Espin-Sanchez and N Ryan
5.“Search and Negotiation with Biased Beliefs in Consumer Credit Markets”. (link) with S Higgins, S Kulkarni and E Berwart
6. “Scalable Property Valuation Models via Graph-based Deep Learning” with E Riveros, C Vairetti, S Maldonado and C Wegmann (R&R Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence)
7. “Immigration and Housing Markets: Exogenous Shocks and Regional Resilience in Emerging Economies” with F Aldunate, S Garate and B Quiroga
8. “Spatial Sorting and the Geography of Innovation” (link)
Selected Work in Progress
1.“Public Bank Lending During a Financial Crisis” with F Aldunate and G Iberti
2. “The Economic Consequences of Social Unrest” with G Maturana, R Ganduri and C Wegmann
3. “Talent Allocation and the Urban Wage Premium: Evidence from Cognitive Skill Mismatch” with Yoonha Kim
4.“Gender Discrimination in Consumer Credit Markets” with F Aldunate and G Iberti
5. “The effect of property taxes on house prices: Evidence from border discontinuities in Chile” with M Canepa, J Cortes, C Vairetti, S Maldonado and C Wegmann
6. “Hierarchies” with F Aldunate and M Torres