PhD in Economics and Government ∙ CEMFI ∙ 2024
PhD Committee: Samuel Bentolila, Rafael Repullo, and Javier Suarez (supervisor).
Thesis: “Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance”.
This dissertation contributes to the discussion of how different types of imperfections in the relationship between firms and financial intermediaries can potentially affect the real and financial performance of firms, their financial vulnerability, the channeling of funds to different types of financial intermediaries, and the stability of the financial system.
Relevant short courses
- Macroeconomics and Climate Change, by John Hassler and Per Krusell.
Topics: The natural science of climate change, climate damages, natural resource economics, directed technical change, good and bad climate policies. - Machine Learning in Finance, by Ansgar Walther.
Topics: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, reinforcement learning, interpretability and causal inference in machine learning. - Introduction to Experimental Analysis, by Dmitry Arkhangelsky.
Topics: Static A/B testing, adaptive experiments, dynamic experiments. - Unstructured Data in Empirical Economics, by Stephen Hansen.
Topics: The bag-of-words model, latent Dirichlet allocation, word embedding models, large language models, convolutional neural networks.
Master in Economics and Finance ∙ CEMFI ∙ 2020
Courses: Mathematics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Uncertainty and Information, Macroeconomics I and II, Econometrics, Industrial Economics, Corporate Finance, Microeconometrics, Economics of Banking, Quantitative Macroeconomics, International Economics, International Macroeconomics, Topics in Empirical Economics.
Master thesis: “Public Supply of Liquidity to Mutual Funds”, supervised by Javier Suarez.
Bachelor in Economics ∙ Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ∙ 2017
In my bachelor I specialized in Quantitative Methods. My thesis supervisor was Alfredo Schclarek Curutchet, and I worked as teaching and research assistant to Ángel Enrique (riqui) Neder.
I would like to highlight the following course that I attended in my last year at Córdoba:
- Programa de Formación en Normas, Prácticas y Técnicas Bancarias, by BCRA and ABAPPRA (90 hours). Topics: Regulation and supervision of financial institutions; Active operations (Loans); Passive operations; Capital markets; Financial risks; Credit standards; Liquidity, solvency, and dividends; Bank accounting and external auditing; Foreign exchange; User protection; Information security; Security in financial institutions; Payment system.