José Ignacio Cuesta

Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

jicuesta@stanford.edu


I am hiring a SIEPR pre-doctoral fellow. More information here.

WORKING PAPERS

The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

with Juan Pablo Atal, Felipe González and Cristóbal Otero | September 2023 | [pdf] [NBER]

Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review


Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

with Juan Pablo Atal and Morten Sæthre | July 2022 | [pdf] [NBER]

Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies


Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access

with Alberto Sepúlveda | September 2021 | [pdf] [online appendix] [video]

Revise and resubmit, Econometrica


Drivers of Public Procurement Prices: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

with Claudia Allende, Juan Pablo Atal, Rodrigo Carril and Andrés González-Lira | December 2023 | [pdf]


Vertical Integration between Hospitals and Insurers

with Carlos Noton and Benjamín Vatter | May 2019 | [pdf]


WORK IN PROGRESS

Information Frictions in Mortgage Refinancing

with Vivek Bhattacharya, Gastón Illanes, Ana María Montoya and Raimundo Undurraga | [pre-analysis plan]


Managed Competition vs. Public Procurement in Individual Health Insurance

with Pietro Tebaldi


Centralizing Procurement: The Roles of Scale, Selection and Variety

with Claudia Allende, Juan Pablo Atal, Rodrigo Carril and Andrés González-Lira


PUBLICATIONS

Distorted Quality Signals in School Markets

with Felipe González and Cristián Larroulet

Journal of Development Economics, 2020 | [pdf] [JDE]


Identification of Average Marginal Effects Under Misspecification when Covariates are Normal

with Jonathan Davis, Andrew Gianou and Alejandro Hoyos

Econometric Reviews, 2019 | [pdf] [ER]