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Academic appointment

2009-

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University (Affiliated appointment with Department of Economics, Columbia University)

Education

2004–2009	Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: Essays on Relational Contracts Advisors: Benjamin Hermalin, Steven Tadelis, and Shachar Kariv
1998–2001	Licentiate in Economics (with honors), Universidad del Cema, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research and teaching interests

Contract Theory, Game Theory, Organizational Economics

Publications

“Relational Contracts and the Value of Relationships,” American Economic Review, 102(2): 750-79, 2012.

“Financial Globalization, Crises, and Contagion,” with Sergio Schmukler and Pablo Zoido-Lobaton, in A. Morales (Ed.), International Macroeconomics: Recent Developments, Nova Science Publishers, 207- 225, 2006.

“Distributional Effects of Crises: The Financial Channel,” with Sergio Schmukler, Economia, 5(1), 1- 67, 2004. Lead article.

Working papers and work in progress

“Relationship Building: Conflict and Project Choice over Time”

“Investing in a Relationship”

“Optimal Contracts for Experimentation,” with Navin Kartik and Qingmin Liu

“Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks,” with Pierre Yared

Teaching experience

Game Theory and Business, Columbia Business School, Spring 2010, 2011, 2012

Graduate Game Theory, UC Berkeley, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007

Graduate Contract Theory, UC Berkeley, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006

Graduate Macroeconomic Theory, UC Berkeley, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2005, 2006

Professional experience

2002–2004	Consultant, Development Research Group, The World Bank, Washington DC
2000–2001	Business Information Specialist, McKinsey and Company, Argentina

Fellowships and awards

2011	Columbia Business School Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course
2008	Graduate Division Summer Grant, UC Berkeley
2007–2008	Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2007	Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
2007	Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2007	Academic Progress Award, UC Berkeley
2006	Grace Katagiri Prize for best empirical econometrics paper, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley
2004–2005	First-year fellowship, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley
1998–2001	Four-year scholarship, Universidad del Cema

Seminar presentations

MIT Sloan (2012); Michigan State (2012); Rochester Simon (2012); UBC Sauder (2011); Queen’s GSB (2011); Georgetown (2011); Toulouse (2010); Harvard/MIT (2010); WashU (2009); NYU Stern (2009); Duke/Fuqua/UNC (2009); UCLA (2009); Caltech (2009); Yale SOM (2009); Columbia GSB (2009); Toronto (2009); UPenn (2009); Chicago Booth (2009); Olin (2009); MIT Sloan (2009); LSE (2009); Northwestern (2009); Kellogg M&S (2009); USC Marshall (2009); Haas (2008); Berkeley (2008).

Conference presentations

NBER Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting (2012); Columbia-Duke- Northwestern IO Theory Conference (2011, invited discussant); IO Day (2011); NBER Entrepreneurship Working Group Meeting (2011, invited discussant); NBER Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting (2011, invited discussant); ASSA meetings (2010, invited discussant); Paris Sorbonne Conference on Contracts, Procurement, and Public-Private Arrangements (2010); NBER conference on Relational Contracts (2009, invited discussant); UCSD mini-conference on Dynamic Relationships (2009); HBS Strategy Research Conference (2009); 13th Annual Conference of ISNIE at UC Berkeley Haas (2009)..

Refereeing

American Economic Review; B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics; Games and Economic Behavior; International Economic Review; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Management Science; Quarterly Journal of Economics; RAND Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Dynamics; Review of Economic Studies.