Faculty Member of the Zicklin Business School's Finance Department at the Baruch College, City Univesrity of New York, USA Associate Professor at the American Graduate School of Business and Economics Fields of Expertise Applied Microeconomics Finance Econometrics

Education

• B.A. in Economics, University of Costa Rica

• M.A. (with Honors) in Economics, New School for Social Researc, USA

• Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, USA

Other current posts

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alicante, Spain

Previous experience

• Full time Instructor, Department of Economics, New York University

• Research assistant, New York State Banking Department, New York

• Professor, , Department of Economics, University of Costa Rica

• Ministry of Economy, Costa Rica, Office of Unfair Commerce

Selected publications

• Forthcoming “Differentiated Social Interactions in the US Schooling Race Gap”, Working Paper, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Economicas, 2008

• “Access to Credit and the Effect of Credit Constraints: Firms in the Manufacturing Sector in Costa Rica” (co-authored with A. Monge), in Credit Constraints in Latin America, edited by A. Galindo and F. Schiantarelli for the Inter-American Development Bank (2003)

• “Bailouts in Costa Rica as a Result of Government Centralization and Discretionary Transfers” (with G. Arce and A. Monge), Working Paper, IADB R-475 (2002)

• “Enforcement Mechanisms, Default, and Contract Design in Credit Markets: Exploring Costa Rica” (co-authored with A. Monge and J. Cascante), in Defusing Default: Incentive and Institutions, edited by Marco Pagano (2001)