I am the current director of the School of Management (SoM) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), position that I have held since May 2025 and will last until April 2028. In addition, I am an associate professor at SoM, one of the Directors of the Center of Corporate Governance UC (Visit CGC-UC webpage here) and one of the founders of the Latinoamerican Workshop in Law and Economics (Visit LAWLE webpage here). I specialize in the areas of Law and Economics and Industrial Organization. My work focuses on the impact of regulatory frameworks (laws and institutions) over economic and business decisions, it has been published in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, American Law and Economics Review and The Journal of Development Economics, among other journals. I have worked or am currently working on the following topics:
Corporate Governance: I am currently studying the dynamics in the adoption of best corporate governance practices when regulation takes the form of Comply or Explain. I am also researching the impact that corporate scandals and new regulations had over the Chilean market for corporate directors in the period of 2005 to 2019. In the past I studied differences in Chilean market reactions towards auditors retentions and rotations when markets are stable or have been recently rocked by corporate scandals.
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 am currently researching the effects (over judicial decisions and litigating decisions) of restricting access to Chilean higher courts in the context of labor disputes. In the past, I researched the impact of reputation and legal doctrines in the judicial decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the welfare impact of limits in damage compensations.
Comparative Law and Judicial Politics: I researched the reasons for differences in rates of access to higher courts worldwide and the link between court’s ideological stability and legal stability. I am studying the reasons why countries approve or reject new political constitutions. In addition, I have 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.
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.
Check here to see a representative list of my publications and here to see a representative list of my work in progress.