Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz)
Associate Professor, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Adjunct Professor, Economics Department, Universidad del Rosario
Research Associate, Toulouse School of Economics
Education
Stanford University, Ph.D., 2016
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, M.A., 2011
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, B.A., 2011
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Research Interests
Political Economy, Development Economics, Economic History, Corporate Finance
Selected Publications
"Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector" (with Pablo Muñoz), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
"Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction" (with Felipe González, Luis Martínez, and Pablo Muñoz), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
"Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation", (with R. Harding, N. A. Ruiz, and D. Vargas), American Political Science Review, forthcoming.
"Police Violence, Student Protests, and Educational Performance," (with Felipe González), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
"The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy," (with María A. Bautista, Felipe González, Luis Martínez, and Pablo Muñoz), American Journal of Political Science, 2023, 67(1), 101-118.
"The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement," (with Juan F. Vargas and Daniel Mejía), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105(2), 344-358.
"Corruption and Firms," (with Emanuele Colonnelli), Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89(2), 695-732.
"Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil," (with Emanuele Colonnelli, Spyridon Lagaras, Jacopo Ponticelli, and Margarita Tsoutsoura), Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 143, 1097-1119.
"Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations," (with Emanuele Colonnelli and Edoardo Teso), American Economic Review, 2020, 110(10), 3071-99.
"Losing Your Dictator: Firms During Political Transition," (with Felipe González), Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25(2), 227-257.
"The Privatization Origins of Political Corporations: Evidence from the Pinochet Regime," (with Felipe González and Francisco Urzúa), Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80(2), 417-456.
"The Internal Capital Markets of Business Groups: Evidence from Intra-Group Loans," (with David Buchuk, Borja Larraín, and Francisco Urzúa), Journal of Financial Economics, 2014, 112(2), 190–212.
Selected Working Papers
"Landmines: The Local Effects of Demining," (with Miguel E. Purroy and Juan F. Vargas)
"Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility," (with María A. Bautista, Felipe González, Luis Martínez, and Pablo Muñoz)
"The Intergenerational Transmission of College: Evidence from the 1973 Coup in Chile," (with María A. Bautista, Felipe González, Luis Martínez, and Pablo Muñoz)
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
Mario Henrique Simonsen Memorial Lecture, Latin American Econometric Society, 2021
Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article in the Journal of Economic History, 2020
Landau Prize for the best SIEPR Discussion Paper, Stanford, 2018
Contacts
Phone: +39.06.4792.4939
Fax: +39.06.4792.4872
E-mail: francisco.munoz[at]eief.it
Web: Mounu Prem (Francisco Muñoz)
