Rubén Hernández-Murillo

Employment

• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE)
Visiting Assistant Professor,  January 2002 – Present
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Economist, October 2000 – January 2002
• University of Rochester

Department of Economics
Research Assistant to Professor Per Krusell, May 1998 and July 1999.
• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Centro de Análisis e Investigación Económica (CAIE)
Research Assistant to:
Professor Ignacio Trigueros, Director, CAIE. (January – July 1995, Summer 1996)
Professor Manuel Ramos-Francia, Director, CAIE (1994).

Education

• University of Rochester
• Ph.D. in Economics, November 2000

Dissertation: Essays on Economic Competition among Jurisdictions.
Advisor: Per Krusell.
Fields of specialization: Industrial Organization, Political Economy.

• M. A. in Economics, October 1998.
• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
• B. A. in Economics, June 1995. Summa Cum Laude.

Publications

• “Did Right-to-Work Work for Idaho?” Forthcoming in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review.
• “Suburban Expansion,” The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, October 2001.

Current Research Projects

• “Patent Licensing Revisited,” joint with Gerard Llobet. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2001.
• “Tax Competition with Evasion,” joint with Néstor Gándelman. Mimeo 2001.
• “Interjurisdictional Competition with Adverse Selection.” Mimeo 2001.
• “Sorting Through Schools: How Does Your School District Affect the Price of Your House?,” joint with Michael T. Owyang.
• “Assessing Racial Bias in Missouri Traffic Stops,” joint with John Knowles.

Commentary

• “Give me your Skilled….” National Economic Trends, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, October 2001.
• “The Earned Income Tax Credit at Work.” National Economic Trends, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 2001.

Scholarships and Fellowships

• University of Rochester Scholarship, Fall 1995 – Spring 1999.
• University of Rochester Fellowship, Fall 1996 – Spring 1999.
• CONACYT Scholarship, National Council of Science and Technology,
  Mexico, 1995 – 1999.
• ITAM Scholarship 1989 – 1993.
• ITAM Fellowship 1992.

Research interests

• Political Economy.
• Urban Economics/Regional Economics
• Industrial Organization.
• Public Finance/Public Economics.

Teaching Experience

• Instructor:
  Intermediate Microeconomics, ITAM, Spring 2002.
  Intermediate Microeconomics, University of Rochester, Summer 1998, Summer 2000.
  Introductory Microeconomics, ITAM, Spring 1994.

• Teaching Assistant:
  Economics of Sports and Entertainment, University of Rochester, Fall 1999.
  Health Economics, University of Rochester, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000.
  Econometrics, University of Rochester, Fall 1997, Fall 1998, and Spring 1999.
  Advanced Macroeconomics, ITAM, Spring 1994.
  Intermediate Microeconomics, ITAM, Spring 1992 – Fall 1994.
  Introductory Microeconomics, ITAM, Spring 1992 – Spring 1993.

References

Per Krusell
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Rochester.
Office: (716) 273-4903. E-mail: pekr@troi.cc.rochester.edu.

Alan Stockman
Marie C. & Joseph C. WilsonProfessor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Rochester.
Office: (716) 275-7214. E-mail: stoc@troi.cc.rochester.edu.

Elizabeth Caucutt
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Rochester.
Office: (716) 275-0093. E-mail: ecau@troi.cc.rochester.edu.