I am an associate professor at
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Management School, one of the Directors of the Center of Corporate Governance UC and a permanent co-organizer of the Latinoamerican Workshop in Law and Economics (LAWLE). I
have a Ph.D. from Princeton University (Economics), a Master from Northwestern
University (Law) and an undergraduate degree from Universidad de Chile (Civil
Industrial Engineering). Before joining PUC in 2009, I was a faculty member at Northwestern
University (Law School and Kellogg School of Management) from 2006 to 2009. As an
extension of my connection with Northwestern I was an associate visiting professor (based at the Searle Center) in 2017 and an assistant visiting
professor from 2009 to 2011 (I taught classes on Business Strategy and Corporate Finance). I specialize in the areas of Law and Economics and Industrial
Organization (Regulation) and have worked or am currently working on the
following topics: - Constitutional Law and Judicial Politics: I researched the role that ideology plays on the U.S. Supreme Court justices’ decisions to select cases, vote in given cases and retire from the Court.
- Antitrust and Regulation: I researched vertical integration in regulated
markets, price setting in Chilean public utilities and the impact of taxes on
the aggregate demand for capital.
- Litigation, Civil Procedure and
Judicial Decision Making: I researched the welfare impact of
limits in damage compensations. I am currently researching the effects (over
judicial decisions and litigating decisions) of restricting access to Chilean
higher courts in the context of labor disputes. I am also currently studying the impact of
reputation and legal doctrines in the judicial decisions made by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
- Comparative Law: I researched the
reasons for differences in rates of access to higher courts worldwide and I am
currently studying the link between court’s ideological stability and legal
stability.
- Corporate Governance: I am currently
researching the impact that unannounced corporate auditor replacements have over
firm valuation and the dynamics in the adoption of best corporate practices
when regulation takes the form of Comply or Explain. Since 2009 I am a member
of the Board of Directors of the Center of Corporate Governance UC, an academic
platform that supports discussion and research of topics related to Corporate
Governance. Visit the CGC webpage here.
- Business Strategy: I am currently studying
the optimal pricing strategies followed by firms that operate in markets with
externalities and in which demand can be separated.
- Law and Economics: In addition to
the previous work, much of which can be broadly classified in the area of Law
and Economics, I am also a permanent co-organizer of the annual Latinoamerican
Workshop in Law and Economics (LAWLE). LAWLE aims to support the development of
theoretical and applied research in Law and Economics in the region. The original
LAWLE alliance was integrated by ITAM, U Andes Colombia, University of Brasilia
and PUC de Chile; since 2020, George Mason University will also be part of the
alliance. While the first LAWLE took place in 2014 in Santiago, Chile, LAWLE-2020
will take place in Arlington Virginia. Visit LAWLE webpage here.
Check here to see a representative
list of my publications and here to see a representative list of my work in
progress.
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