IVAN MENDIETA-MUNOZ, Ph.D. portrait
  • 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; Budapest, Hungary), 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. Applied Economics Meeting (AEM) Annual Conference (Palma de Mallorca, Spain). Free Association of Economics (ALdE), 06/03/2022
  • Invited Talk. Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Wesleyan University (Middletown, USA), 05/13/2022
  • Invited Talk. Hinckley Institute, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, USA), 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. 21st 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; Orem, USA), 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), University City campus, 09/02/2011
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2008-2011). Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City campus, 04/29/2011
  • Certificate of Achievement in Academic Excellence. Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City campus, 05/31/2007

Affiliations

  • National Economic Education Delegation (NEED), Member, 01/08/2021 - present
  • International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Member, 11/20/2020 - present
  • Society for Computational Economics (SEC), Member, 02/03/2020 - present
  • Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE), Member, 11/30/2018 - present
  • Eastern Economic Association (EEA), Member, 12/05/2016 - present
  • Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), Member, 10/31/2016 - present
  • Society for Economic Measurement (SEM), Member, 09/30/2016 - present
  • Econometric Society (ES), Member, 11/02/2015 - present
  • American Economic Association (AEA), Member, 11/02/2015 - present
  • International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Member, 03/31/2015 - present

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