Fiscal Policy and Theory

Economics Department

Universidad de los Andes

Fall 2021

The course is part of the undegraduate program in Economics. This is the syllabus.

Advanced Methods for Data Analysis:

Industrial Engineering Department

Universidad de los Andes

Summer 2021

The course is part of the Masters in Analytic Intelligence for Decision Making. The course covers the following topics:

• Time series analysis: ARIMA models, prophet.
• Tree-based models and machine learning as a service: bagging, boosting, Random Forests, XGBoost, Flask, AWS.
• Natural language processing: CountVectorizer, TFIDF, sentiment analysis, neural networks.

Syllabus and notebooks: Github site

Predictive Analytics:

Crehana

May 2021 - present

I currently teach two courses in predictive analytics in Crehana:

• Classification models in R.
• Regression models in Python.

Economía 5:

Economics Department

ITAM

Summer, Fall 2020; Spring 2021

Intermediate macroeconomics. This course studies the neoclassical growth model.

• Macroeconomía Intermedia: Un enfoque de equilibrio general dinámico, by Alejandro Hernández

Syllabus and lecture notes: Syllabus

Dynamic Macroeconomics I:

Economics Department

ITAM

Fall 2018

Masters level course on dynamic macroeconomics. This course studies modern recursive macroeconomic theory and computational tools.

• Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, by Ljungqvist and Sargent
• Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics, by Stokey and Lucas

Syllabus and lecture notes

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes (last updated November 12, 2018)

Summer Math Camp (ECON 897)

Economics Department

University of Pennsylvania

2015, 2016

Summer Math Camp for incoming Economics Ph.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania. I teach a two-week course on linear algebra, differentiation in ℝ and ℝⁿ and the basic separating hyperplane theorems used in the existence proofs in Economics. The references for this part of the course are:

• Principles of Mathematical Analysis, by Rudin
• Real Mathematical Analysis, by Pugh

Syllabus and lecture notes

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes (last updated August 4, 2016)

MATLAB Workshop (ECON 1303):

Economics Department

Universidad de los Andes

2013

Introductory course for Economics students at Universidad de los Andes, aimed at preparing students to estimate and calibrate Economic models. Joint with Nicolás Idrobo. The main reference for the course is:

• Matlab: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, by Attaway

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Teaching Assistant:

I have been teaching assistant for the following courses:

University of Pennsylvania:

• Macro Theory II for Economics Ph.D. (ECON 704) - Prof. Harold Cole, 2014, 2015.
• Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON 1) - Prof. Rebecca Stein, 2015.
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy (ECON 243) - Prof. Harold Cole, 2014.

Universidad de los Andes:

• Advanced Microeconomics: Game Theory (ECON 4113) - Prof. Paula Jaramillo, 2012.
• Microeconomics II (ECON 2101) - Prof. Ana María Ibáñez, 2012.
• Advanced Macroeconomics: Long Run (ECON 4213) - Prof. Marcela Eslava, 2011.
• Linear Algebra I (MATE 1105) - Prof. Schweitzer Rocuts, 2011.
• Mathematical Methods for Economists (MATE 2711) - Prof. Diego Escobar, 2011.
• Introduction to Asymmetric Information and Auction Theory - Prof. Miguel Espinoza, 2011.

Instructor:

Dynamic Macroeconomics I - ITAM:

Fall 2018 - Masters level course on dynamic macroeconomics. This course studies modern recursive macroeconomic theory and computational tools.

• Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, by Ljungqvist and Sargent
• Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics, by Stokey and Lucas

Syllabus and lecture notes

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes (last updated August 4, 2016)

Instructor:

Summer Math Camp (ECON 897) - University of Pennsylvania:

2015, 2016 - Summer Math Camp for incoming Economics Ph.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania. I teach a two-week course on linear algebra, differentiation in ℝ and ℝⁿ and the basic separating hyperplane theorems used in the existence proofs in Economics. The references for this part of the course are:

• Principles of Mathematical Analysis, by Rudin
• Real Mathematical Analysis, by Pugh

Syllabus and lecture notes

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes (last updated August 4, 2016)

Instructor:

MATLAB Workshop (ECON 1303) - Universidad de los Andes:

2013 - Introductory course for Economics students at Universidad de los Andes, aimed at preparing students to estimate and calibrate Economic models. Joint with Nicolás Idrobo. The main reference for the course is:

• Matlab: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, by Attaway

Syllabus

• Syllabus

Teaching Assistant:

I have been teaching assistant for the following courses:

University of Pennsylvania:

• Macro Theory II for Economics Ph.D. (ECON 704) - Prof. Harold Cole, 2015, 2015.
• Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON 1) - Prof. Rebecca Stein, 2015.
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy (ECON 243) - Prof. Harold Cole, 2015.

Universidad de los Andes:

• Advanced Microeconomics: Game Theory (ECON 4113) - Prof. Paula Jaramillo, 2012.
• Microeconomics II (ECON 2101) - Prof. Ana María Ibáñez, 2012.
• Advanced Macroeconomics: Long Run (ECON 4213) - Prof. Marcela Eslava, 2011.
• Linear Algebra I (MATE 1105) - Prof. Schweitzer Rocuts, 2011.
• Mathematical Methods for Economists (MATE 2711) - Prof. Diego Escobar, 2011.
• Introduction to Asymmetric Information and Auction Theory - Prof. Miguel Espinoza, 2011.