ACADEMIC POSITION

UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN, Guatemala

Assistant Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (January 2008- )

Director, Centro Vernon Smith de Economía Experimental– (December 2007- )

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics - GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, Fairfax, VA; 2007

M.A. Economics - GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, Fairfax, VA; 2004

B.A. in Business and Finance - UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN, Guatemala; 1999

· Magna Cum Laude; Dean’s List.

PUBLICATIONS

“Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador” with Dean Yang, Nava Ashraf, and Claudia Martinez (forthcoming – REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS)

“Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador,” with Dean Yang and Catherine Ambler (forthcoming, AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: APPLIED ECONOMICS)

“Valuation Structure in First Price and Least Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation,” with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentscheler (EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 17(1), 2014)

“Risk Preferences and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones for Ladinos” with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler (PLoS ONE, 9(8), 2014)

“Extending the Analysis: Dominican Republic. An Assessment of the USAID Investors Roadmap and a New Institutional Economics Perspective on the Barriers to Entrepreneurship” (with David Harper and Andrés Marroquín). USAID, Forum 8, New Institutional Economics and Development: Case Studies and Applications; Mercatus Center at George Mason University and IRIS, Washington, D.C., 17 September 2003.

WORKING PAPERS & ONGOING RESEARCH

“The Impact of Remittance Fees on Remittance Flows: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment,” with Claudia Martínez and Dean Yang (Working Paper)

“Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants”, with Catherine Ambler and Dean Yang (under review – ECONOMIC JOURNAL)

“Revenue in Auctions with endogenous participation and an uncertain number of bidders: Experimental Evidence” with Lucas Rentschler

“Intra-household control and intertemporal choice: a field experiment in Guatemala” with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentscheler and Betzy Sandoval (Working Paper)

“Endogenous Entry across Auction Formats: Willingness to Pay and Threshold Entry Decisions” with Lucas Rentschler and Hernan Bejarano (Working Paper)

“Entrepreneurial Propensity, Risk and Causality: Experimental Evidence from a developing Country", with Jaime Díaz and Lucas Rentschler

"Discounting and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones," with with Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentscheler

"What Drives Over-Expenditure of Effort in Contests? An Experimental Investigation," with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler

"Limited Liability and Renegotiation in Auctions: Experimental Evidence," with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler

"Asymmetric Information in Common Value Auctions: Experimental Evidence," with Rimvyidas Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler

"Social Norms and Culture," with Jonathan Schultz and Lucas Rentschler

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Measuring the Impact of the US Financial Crisis on Salvadoran Migrants and Family Remittances” with Sebastian Calonico, Gabriela Inchauste, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang, in Financing the Family: Remittances to Central America in a Time of Crisis. ed. Gabriela Inchauste and Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank (New York, Palgrave Macmillan) 2013.

“Diseño de Sistemas Económicos” with David Porter and Stephen Rassenti, in Economía Experimental y del Comportamiento, ed. Pablo Brañas-Garza (Barcelona: Antoni Bosch) 2011.

PRESENTATIONS

2014: Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Antigua Guatemala); Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI); Seminario de Investigadores Económicos de Guatemala (Banco de Guatemala, Guatemala);

2013: APEE Annual Meetings (Maui, HI); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (Chicago, IL); Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland); IX Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía, Universidad Nacional y Universidad Externado (Bogotá, Colombia)

2012: APEE Annual Meetings (Las Vegas, NV); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); Economic Science Association World Meetings, New York University (New York, NY); Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Antigua Guatemala); Economic Science Association Regional Meetings, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)

2011: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); ICES George Mason University (Arlington, VA); Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL); Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL); Economic Science Association Regional Meetings, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ); Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (Orange, CA);

2010: CATIE (Turrialba, Costa Rica); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark); 3rd Migration and Development Conference, Paris School of Economics (Paris, France); Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (Orange, CA); Alhambra Experimental Workshop, Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain), LACEA Annual Meetings (Medellín, Colombia)

2009: IZA Annual Migration Meeting -AM²- (Bonn, Germany); LACEA Meetings of the Impact Evaluation Network, Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia); International Economic Science Association Meetings (Washington, DC): Universidad de Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay)

2008: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala, Guatemala); Universidad de Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay); Victoria’s Department of Sustainability and Environment (Melbourne, Australia)

2007: Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University (Arlington, VA)

CONSULTING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ARLINGTON ECONOMICS Arlington, VA

BOLSA DE VALORES nACIONAL, Guatemala, Guatemala

Inter-American Development Bank Washington, DC

AUGUST SYSTEMS Orange, CA

The William Davidson institute Guatemala, Guatemala

COMISION NACIONAL DE ENERGIA ELECTRICA Guatemala, Guatemala

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS METROPOLITANOS Guatemala, Guatemala

IADB / MIF Washington, DC

WORLD BANK Washington, DC

OTHER

Member of the American Economic Association, the Economic Science Association, and of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association

Referee for: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Experimental Economics, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Migration Studies, Environment and Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Latin American Research Review,

Bilingual: Spanish (native) and English (fluent).

Statistical packages: STATA (proficient); GAUSS, GRETL (basic level).

Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic (intermediate level).

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ACADEMIC POSITION