Personal information
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E-mail: struffa.ese@uandes.cl
web: www.santiagotruffa.cl
Professional experience
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ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes (June 2019- )
Assistant Professor / Santiago, Chile
Director of Research ESE Business School
Director Real Estate Modeling Lab (www.remlab.cl)
Tulane University, Finance (July 2017- May 2019)
Visiting Assistant Professor / New Orleans, USA
Ministry of Finance (June 2008- June 2011)
Economist / Santiago, Chile
Education
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2017 University of California, Berkeley
Phd Business Administration Berkeley, USA.
Master in Business Administration Berkeley, USA.
2009 Universidad de Chile
M.A. Applied Economics /Santiago, Chile
B.A. Industrial Engineering /Santiago, Chile
2006 Universita di Trento
Ph.d courses in math and economics /Trento, Italy
Teaching
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Universidad de los Andes: Urban Economics, Managerial Economics, Investments, Business Analytics, Seminar in Household Finance
Tulane: Financial Modeling, Corporate Finance I, Corporate Finance II
UC Berkeley: Managerial Economics
Grants
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2020 Fondecyt de iniciación ($30,000)
2019 Think Forward Initiative (AC 81,920)
2019 Strategic Investment Fund, UVA ($25,000)
2017 Sparkesse Agency ($5,000)
2017 NBER Household Finance Small Grant ($11,000)
Areas of Expertise
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Household finance, Urban Economics and Applied Microeconomics
Publications
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1.“ On the Geography of Inequality: Labor Sorting and Place-Based Policies in General Equilibrium” with Alexis Montecinos, Spatial Economic Analysis 2023
2.“Agglomeration, Knowledge Spillovers, and Corporate Investment” with William Grieser, Ioannis Spyridopoulos and Gonzalo Maturana, Journal of Corporate Finance2022
3.“The importance of Large Shocks to Return Predictability” with Juan Diaz, Hamilton Galindo, Alexis Montecinos and Diogo Duarte, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal2021
Working Papers
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1.“Removing the Fine Print: Standardized Products, Disclosure, and Consumer Outcomes” with Sheisha Kulkarni and Gonzalo Iberti, R&R Journal of Financial Economics
2.“The Social Geography of Corporate Misconduct” with Matias Braun and Ercos Valdivieso R&R Journal of Banking and Finance
3.“Playing Checkers in Chinatown” with Jose Antonio Espin-Sanchez
4.“Estimating the Information Component in Switching Costs: A Structural Approach” with Sheisha Kulkarni and Gonzalo Iberti
5.“Labor Market Effects of Deleting Delinquencies” with Jordan Nickerson and Gonzalo Maturana
6.“The Impact of Price Comparison Tools in Consumer Credit Markets” with Sean Higgins, Sheisha Kulkarni and Erik Berwart
Selected Work in Progress
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1.“Public Bank Lending During a Financial Crisis” with Gonzalo Iberti
2.“Spillover effects on ESG” with Matias Braun (ESE), Vicente Corral and Claudio Raddatz
Additional information
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Languages: Spanish (native speaker), English (fluent) and Italian (fluent).