Personal website - UCPH: www.econ.ku.dk/pabloselaya

Main research interests:

• Comparative Economic Development
• The Economics of Culture and Institutions
• Political Economy of Development.

Eliteforsk - Sapere Aude research grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF-FSE 2012-2015).

Associate researcher at INESAD in Bolivia.

• Comparative Economic Development
• The Economics of Culture and Institutions
• Political Economy of Development.

• Political development and the consolidation of democracy in Bolivia
• Persistence and non-persistence of public goods provision: Infrastructure
• Cultural origins of violence against women

• Advanced Development Economics - Macro Aspects
• Economic growth and inequality
• Economic and political development in Latin America
• The Economics of Culture and Institutions

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2009
• M.Sc. in Economics (cand.polit.), University of Copenhagen, 2007
• M.Sc. in Financial Economics, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, 1999
• B.Sc. in Business & Economics, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Chile, 1997

Work experience 

A. Academic 

• University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics. 
  Associate professor – Dec. 2012–present. 
  Assistant research professor – Sept. 2009–Nov. 2012 
• National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2018
• Visiting Associate Professor
• Harvard University, Aug. 2012–Aug. 2015.
  Visiting scholar 
• Copenhagen Business School, Apr.–Sept. 2012.
  Postdoc 
• Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany, Oct.–Dec. 2008, May 2009.
  Visiting researcher
• Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 2000 
  Lecturer – Finance (graduate), Faculty of Economics & Finance.

B. Professional 

• The World Bank, 2010, 2013
  Consultant 
• Bolivian Ministry of Energy
  Director & Chief Economist
• Unidad de Análisis de Política Económica y Social, UDAPE (Bolivian Ministry of Finance)
  Senior Economist – Energy, Mar. 2002–Feb. 2004 
  Junior Economist – Industry, telecommunications and transport, Apr.–Dec. 2000 
• British Department for International Development (DFID), La Paz, Feb.–Mar. 2000 
  Consultant

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