Research interests: 

Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economic History.

Phone / email

(511) 6267100 (7294) / lfzegarrab@pucp.pe 

Office:

Jr. Daniel Alomía Robles 125, Los Alamos de Monterrico, Santiago de Surco, Lima 33, Peru.

Personal website:

https://sites.google.com/pucp.pe/lfzegarrab/ 

Research websites:

At Scopus

At ORCID

At Repec-Ideas

Biography:

Luis Felipe Zegarra holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Currently, he is a Full Professor (Profesor Principal) at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima, Peru). Previously, he was a Visiting Professor in the Universitat de Barcelona (2022), a coeditor of the journal "Economic History Research-Investigaciones de Historia Económica" (Spanish Association of Economic History) (2020-25), and a Fulbright Scholar (2001-03). 

He has published academic articles in Explorations in Economic History, European Review of Economic History, Cliometrica, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, among many other journals. His research includes a variety of topics in industrial organization, applied econometrics and economic history. By relying on primary and secondary sources, he has analyzed the functioning of credit markets, information asymmetries, the emergence of financial institutions, wealth and income inequality, living standards, and the economics of transportation, among other topics. 

He has presented his research at several academic conferences and seminars around the world. He has served as referee for a number of journals, including European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Economic History Review, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, among others. As part of his career, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Economics, Game Theory and Operational Research.