The full version of my CV is available as a PDF here.

Last updated: July 2026

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison (expected 2027)

• M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2023

• M.A. in Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), 2019

• B.A. in Economics, ITAM, 2015

Fields

Primary: International Macroeconomics
Secondary: Time-Series Econometrics, Empirical Finance

Job Market Paper

Geoeconomic Pressure, Sovereign Risk, and Asset Prices: Evidence from Mexico

I study how coercive economic pressure from a large economy can reprice a smaller sovereign's default risk before any change in its fundamentals, using the pressure directed at Mexico during 2016–2017 as an identifying setting. Using synthetic-control methods on daily CDS data, I find that this pressure raised Mexico's sovereign spread by 24 basis points, and I trace how the repricing transmitted to exchange rates and equity returns. A quantitative sovereign-default model rationalizes the effect as the price of a tail risk that never materialized.

Publications

• "Effects of the International Regulatory Reforms over Market Liquidity of Mexican Sovereign Debt," with José Luis Lara, Fabrizio López-Gallo, and Alberto Romero. Journal of Financial Stability, 2021.

Selected Working Papers

• "When Concentration Meets Uncertainty: Trade Structure and Sovereign Default Risk," with Cutberto Frías (2026).

• "Markup Cyclicality under Macroeconomic Uncertainty," with Julio Mereb (2026).

• "FX Interventions in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Domestic Non-Deliverable Forwards," with Yeonggyu Yun (2025).

Experience

Research

• Research Assistant to Miguel Acosta and Lydia Cox, UW–Madison (2026)

• Research Assistant to Dean Corbae, UW–Madison (2023–2024)

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, graduate Econometrics I and Macroeconomics, UW–Madison (2021–2025)

• Instructor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) (2017–2021)

Professional

• Financial Researcher, Financial Stability Directorate, Banco de México (2014–2021)

References

• Kim J. Ruhl (Co-Chair), Curt and Sue Culver Chair of Economics, UW–Madison

• Kenneth D. West (Co-Chair), John D. MacArthur Professor, UW–Madison

• Dean Corbae, W. S. Trukenbrod Chair in Finance, UW–Madison

• Louphou Coulibaly, Assistant Professor, UW–Madison

• Lydia Cox, Assistant Professor, UW–Madison