Gustavo A. García

Welcome to my personal website. My areas of research are urban economics, labor economics and applied econometrics, with a specialization in job quality (informality) spatial econometrics and microeconometrics. My approach takes into account both the theory and analysis of data by using household survey as well as firm-level data.

2013 PhD in Economics, Excellent Cum Laude, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Dissertation: Essays on the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case

Advisor: José Luis Roig (UAB)

Current employment:

Full Professor, School of Finance, Economics and Government - RiSE-group - OMEGA Research Group, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia

Research interests:

- Regional and urban economics

- Labor economics

- Informality

- Spatial data analytics

- Applied econometrics

Gustavo A. García at: IDEAS-RePEc