Carlos Hurtado is a Mexican economist with ample experience in public service, teaching and international organizations.  His background in Mexico includes much work on economic policy in the public sector, both in macroeconomics and public finance and in sector issues.  He has taught economic courses for many years at ITAM, where he was professor and director of the research centre in the 80s.

Victoria Nuguer currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Economics at ITAM. Previously, she served as a Senior Research Economist in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank for over six years. Prior to that role, she worked as a Researcher at the Central Bank of Mexico for almost three years. Dr. Nuguer completed her doctoral studies, earning a Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland in 2014.

Cristhian is an assistant professor of economics at ITAM. He earned a B.A. in economics from Universidad del Pacífico in Perú, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. His research interests are in macroeconomics, with emphasis on the intersection of labor and financial markets. Throughout his work, he studies the interaction of micro-level heterogeneity, aggregate shocks, and economic policy.

Daniel Chiquiar is currently a professor at the economics department of ITAM.

Jorge’s research interests are focused on macroeconomics and labor economics. Most of his work relates to understanding how cross country differences in labor market institutions are related to cross country differences in labor supply.  Right now, his research agenda is focused on understanding how the duality of social protection in Latin America is related to the large share of the population that does not contribute to social security in these countries.

Dr. Felipe Meza is a researcher at CAIE and a professor of Economics. He joined ITAM in 2007. He has worked on the impact of fiscal variables, the behavior of productivity during financial crises, the effects of financial liberalization, and the dynamics of the informal sector. More recently he has worked on the link between productivity and the cost and availability of bank credit for Mexican manufacturing sectors. As of 2017 his research topics also include the fiscal and monetary history of contemporary Mexico, real exchange rate dynamics, and the impact of the US monetary policy. Prof.

Arturo Aguilar is an assistant professor of economics at ITAM. Arturo’s research interests lie mainly in the development, public policy, applied econometrics, and labor economics fields.

Carlos Urrutia received his PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota in 1998. His areas of interest are within the fields of Macroeconomics and International Economics. He has worked on the topics of income differences across countries, income distribution, intergenerational mobility, social security, business cycles in emerging economies and financial and labor market frictions. He is currently an editor for the Latin-American blog Foco Económico.

Andrei Gomberg’s research (and advising) interests concern theoretical and experimental study of political and legal institutions. His personal webpage contains links to his publications and ongoing work.

Ignacio conducts research on theoretical econometrics, data management, machine learning, financial econometrics, time series, applied econometrics, forecasting, nonparametric procedures, and nonlinear methods. His recent econometric research has focused on inference in models defined by conditional moment restrictions, as well as time series methods for non-causal and non-invertible linear models.