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Associate Professor, Economics Department
Internal Service
- Member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
08/01/2022 - present.
Department service.
- Ph.D. Program Faculty Placement Advisor.
07/05/2021 - present.
Department service.
- Member of the Hiring Committee.
07/05/2021 - 03/31/2022.
Department service.
- Macroeconomics Research Group Coordinator.
08/03/2020 - 04/11/2022.
Department service.
- Member of the Hiring Committee.
10/02/2017 - 02/02/2018.
Department service.
- Member of the Undergraduate Class Tutoring Program Committee.
11/01/2016 - 07/28/2017.
College service.
- Member of the Undergraduate Committee.
10/03/2016 - present.
Department service.
Honors & Awards
- Invited Talk.
Central Bank of Hungary (MNB),
01/18/2024
- Faculty Fellow Award.
University of Utah,
01/08/2024
- Provost's Banner Project Honoree.
University of Utah,
05/26/2023
- Travel Grant Award.
Twenty-fourth Applied Economics Meeting (AEM) Annual Conference (Palma, Spain). Free Economic Association (ALdE),
06/03/2022
- Invited Talk.
Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Wesleyan University,
05/13/2022
- Invited Talk.
Hinckley Institute, University of Utah,
04/06/2022
- Superior Teaching Award, Junior Faculty.
College of Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS), University of Utah,
03/09/2020
- Best Paper Award: “Are long-run output growth rates falling?,” with Mengheng Li.
Twenty-first International Network for Economic Research (INFER) Annual Conference (Brussels, Belgium),
06/06/2019
- Research Leave Award, Junior Faculty.
College of Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS), University of Utah,
01/07/2019
- Invited Talk.
Finance and Economics Department, Utah Valley University (UVU),
03/30/2017
- Ph.D. Scholarship (2012-2015).
University of Kent,
04/30/2015
- International Scholarship for Graduate Students (2011-2012).
University of Kent,
08/31/2012
- M.S. Dissertation Prize: Best Master's Thesis Award.
School of Economics, University of Kent,
06/29/2012
- M.S. Degree With Distinction.
School of Economics, University of Kent,
05/25/2012
- Summa cum laude: “Gabino Barreda medal” for Best Undergraduate Student of his Generation (2007-2011).
Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
09/02/2011
- Distinguished Undergraduate Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2008-2011).
Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
04/29/2011
- Certificate of Achievement in Academic Excellence.
Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
05/31/2007
Affiliations
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National Economic Education Delegation
(NEED),
Member,
01/08/2021 - present
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International Society for Bayesian Analysis
(ISBA),
Member,
11/20/2020 - present
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Society for Computational Economics
(SEC),
Member,
02/03/2020 - present
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Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
(SNDE),
Member,
11/30/2018 - present
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Eastern Economic Association
(EEA),
Member,
12/05/2016 - present
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Union for Radical Political Economics
(URPE),
Member,
10/31/2016 - present
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Society for Economic Measurement
(SEM),
Member,
09/30/2016 - present
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Econometric Society
(ES),
Member,
11/02/2015 - present
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American Economic Association
(AEA),
Member,
11/02/2015 - present
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International Association for Applied Econometrics
(IAAE),
Member,
03/31/2015 - present
In the Media
- “Nowcasting regional GDP in Utah using dynamic factor models,” with Matthew Gordon. University of Utah, Economic Evaluation Unit Policy Research Briefs, No. 3. 05/10/2021.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fIRm7M5_2TwcEQfZ7...
- “Payroll share, real wage and labor productivity across US states,” with Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone and Rudiger von Arnim. Institute for New Economic Thinking Blog Article. 04/30/2020.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/pa...
- “COVID-19 crisis: Potential impact on employment and income in Utah,” with Ansel Schiavone, Codrina Rada and Rudiger von Arnim. University of Utah, Economic Evaluation Unit Policy Research Briefs, No. 2. 04/16/2020.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sr6DNM8ZIv9YKJ1jk...
- “The decline of the US labor share across sectors,” with Codrina Rada and Rudiger von Arnim. Institute for New Economic Thinking Blog Article. 11/21/2019.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/th...