2015-present

2015-present

2011-2015

Assistant   Professor,UIBE Business School

Research    Fellow, Research Institute for Global Value   Chains

Teaching    Assistant, University of California Irvine

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics 2015

University of California Irvine

Thesis Title: “Exporting and Productivity”

Bachelors of   Science, Finance 2003

American University

Research Interests:

I seek to econometrically identify the   impact of trade, business services and Global Value Chains on technology   transfers, labor market reallocations and firm performance.  My work seeks to understand what mitigates these   relationships. 

Teaching Experience:

Graduate Level

Fall 2016-17

Undergraduate Level

Spring, 2015

Winter, 2015

Spring, 2013

Winter, 2013

Fall, 2012

Summer, 2012

Spring, 2012

Winter, 2012

Fall, 2011

Research Instruments, UIBE, Instructor

Econ of International Business, UC   Irvine, teaching assistant

International Economics, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

Econ of International Business, UC   Irvine, teaching assistant

Probability and Statistics, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

Money and Banking, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

Intermediate Economics, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

International Money, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

Econ of the Arts, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

Probability and Statistics, UC Irvine, teaching assistant

2016

2016

2015

Invited Speaker, Beijing Normal University Trade Conference

Invited Speaker, Tri-Continental International Trade Policy Workshop

Zhejiang University,   Hangzhou China

Invited Speaker-Chair, Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

SabanciUniversity,   Istanbul Turkey

2015

Invited Speaker, International Study Group of Exports and Productivity

     University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK

2015

Speaker, Theory,   History and Development Seminar

     University of California Irvine, Irvine   USA

2015

Speaker, IMBS   Seminar

     University of California Irvine, Irvine   USA

2013

Asian Meeting of the   Econometric Society

     National University of Singapore,   Singapore

2013

The Tsinghua Macroeconomic   Workshop

     Tsinghua University, Beijing China

2011

Economic History and   Development

     UC Berkeley, Berkeley USA

2014-2015

Merit Fellowship in Economics

2015

UC Summer Research Fellowship

Research Papers:

“The   Effect of Product Fragmentation on Skills Reallocation: Is it Felt Equally   Across Levels of Development?”  Background   Paper, RIGVC Development Report 2018

“Global Value Chains and Institutions”  Chapter   Author, RIGVC and World Band Development Report 2017

“A Quasi-Experiment on Learning-by-Exporting, Without the   Quasi-Heterogeneity”, working paper

"Selection into Exporting: The Contribution of Outsourced Services in Chile"working paper

“Gender,Partnership and Export Selection”  working paper