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I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Toronto.
My fields are Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development, and Environmental Macroeconomics. My Job Market Paper explores the role of Market Distortion on Firms' Innovation decisions in the Manufacturing Industry in Colombia.
I will be in the Job Market in the year 2024/2025.
Contact: alvaro.pinzon@mail.utoronto.ca
Research
Work in Progress
Innovation and Adoption in the presence of distortions (Job Market Paper)
Clean Energy Transitions under Structural Change with Anubha Agarwal and Tasnia Hussain
Market liberalization and capital misallocation: The Colombian manufacturing experience
Publications
Job Creation in Colombia Versus the USA: `Up-or-out Dynamics' Meet `The Life Cycle of Plants' (2022) with Marcela Eslava and John Haltiwanger, Economica, 89(355), 511-539.
Switching from Payroll Taxes to Corporate Income Taxes: Firms' Employment and Wages after the 2012 Colombian Tax Reform (2017) with Raquel Bernal, Marcela Melendez, and Marcela Eslava, ECONOMIA, 18(1), 41-74.
El ciclo economico y el mercado de trabajo en Colombia: 1984-2014 (2016), with Luis Eduardo Arango, and Felipe Parra, Ensayos sobre Poltica Economica, 34(81), 206-228
Education
PhD in Economics, University of Toronto, Canada - 2025 (Expected)
Committee: Diego Restuccia (supervisor).
M.A. in Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - 2018
B. Sc. in Economics, Universidad del Valle, Colombia - 2015