Emilio Depetris-Chauvin

PhD Economics

About Me

Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor and Research Director of the Department of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I am also an Associate Editor at the Journal of Comparative Economics and Research Fellow at IZA. My areas of research and teaching interests are political economy, economic development, economic growth, and cliometrics. I am particularly interested in understanding the causes and consequences of conflict and violence. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Economic Review, AEJ: Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Public Economics.

See Interview by the International Economic Association FEATURED ECONOMIST, OCTOBER 2022

Forthcoming Talks/Seminars

I will be Keynote Speaker at the UDEP Workshop for Young Economists in Lima, Perú (August 2024)

I will be visiting SMU in May 2024

I will participate in the 2024 Deep-Rooted Factors in Comparative Development Conference at Brown University (April 2024)

Workshop on Subnational Capacities and Decentralization in Latin America and the Caribbean, CAF (April 2024)

I visited National University of Singapore in March 2024.

University of Sydney (March 2024)

University of Queensland (March 2024)

University of New South Wales (March 2024)

AAEP LVIII Reunión Anual Mendoza Argentina (November 2023)

RIDGE Workshop on Public Economics (May 2023)

Universidad de Talca (June 2023)