I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at Boston University. My areas of specialization are Public Finance, Economic History and Development Economics. My research focuses on economic development in Latin America. I analyze the historical roots and consequences of federalist institutions in Brazil and Mexico. I provide an analytical framework to explain the sources of bargaining power between states and Federation when they negotiate for fiscal resources.
Moreover, I analyze the consequences of the Brazil's 1891 Constitution in regional inequality.
The Constitution allowed states to collect export taxes. I show that this provision enabled richer states to collect more public revenue, issue more and cheaper debt, and spend more in public goods conductive to economic growth, accentuating the divergence across states. My teaching experience includes a course in Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective at Boston University, and as Teaching Assistant for several courses in Micro and Macroeconomics at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)