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ALEXANDRA CORTÉS AGUILAR
CONTACT INFORMATION
Departamento de Métodos para la Economía y la Empresa
Universidad de Granada
Campus Cartuja, s/n
18011 Granada, Spain
E-mail: acortesa@ugr.es, alexacor@uis.edu.co
Phone: +34 958 246688
Fax: +34 958 240620
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Economics
Universidad de Granada (Granada, Spain)
Third Year
Nov. 2007 – Sept. 2011 (expected)
M. Phil in Economics
Nov. 2007 – Sept. 2009
Universidad de Granada (Granada- Spain)
Thesis: “Life Satisfaction and Socioeconomic Conditions in Latin American Countries”
Supervisors: Teresa García Muñoz and Victoria Ateca Amestoy
M. Sc. in Economics
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
Thesis: “Economic Valuation of Genetic Resources” (in Spanish)
Supervisor: Nohra León Rodríguez
B.A. in Economics
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia)
April 2003 – Sept. 2006
Jan. 1998 – April 2003
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Managment
Teaching Assistant.
Academic course 2010-2011
Courses: Econometrics II and Time series
UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER
Assistant Professor, Economics Department.
Commission for PhD studies since November 2007
Courses:
Econometrics
Advanced Microeconomics
Mathematics III
Teaching Assistant, Economics Department.
Courses:
Microeconomics I
Econometrics I
Mathematics III
July 2005 – October 2007
June 2004 – June 2005
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA
Teaching Assistant. Microeconomics I
Research Assistant.
Unidad de Estudios en Interacciones Económicas
Director: Professor Francisco Lozano Gerena.
Student Assistant.
General Equilibrium and Microeconomics I
June 2003 – June 2004
May 2003 – August 2003
February 2003 – June 2003
Research Assistant.
November 2001 – November 2002
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídico Sociales UNIJUS
Research Director: Prof. Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá
Student Assistant.
Monetary System and International Financial Crisis
Prof. Bethoven Herrera
February 2001 – November 2001
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Research Assistant.
January 2001 – December 2002
Professor Victor M. Uribe-Uran.
Research title: “Fatal love: spousal killers, culture and the law in the colonial Mexico,
Colombia and Imperial Spain”.
RESEARCH
Research Interests
Microeconometrics, behavioral economics, subjective well-being, social capital and
environmental economics.
Work in Progress
Social interactions and subjective well-being: Evidence from Latin American countries.
Income relative concerns and Subjective Well-being.
Happiness Comparisons: Experimental Evidence using Relative Happiness Report.
Alcohol Consumption and Risk Attitude, joint work with A. Espín, F. Exadactylos, O.
Oyediran, L.A. Palacio & A. Proestakis.
Research Projects
Granada Lab of Behavioral Economics (GLOBE), Grupos PAI de la Junta de
Andalucía (SEJ-023), 2008-2009, P.R.: Pablo Brañas-Garza
Desarrollo del Marco Conceptual y Normativo en Materia de Acceso a Recursos
Genéticos.
Nov. 2001 – Nov. 2002
Contract: 052-035
Secretaría Ejecutiva del Convenio Andrés Bello and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Supervisors: Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá and Fabián Acosta.
Centro de Documentación sobre Política y Legislación en Biodiversidad y
Recursos Genéticos.
Nov. 2002 – April. 2003
Supervisor: Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Biodiversidad, Valoración y Derecho. Aportes Teóricos y Prácticos para la Discusión en Colombia.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colección Gerardo Molina. First Edition. 2008.
ISBN: 978-9581-70196-4 (with Gabriel Nemogá and Johanna Romero)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Acceso a recursos genéticos: propuesta jurídica y técnica. In Propiedad, Conflicto y Medio
Ambiente. Edited by Londoño, Beatriz. Centro Editorial Universidad del Rosario. 2004.
ISBN: 958-8225-29-9 (with Gabriel Nemogá and Elizabeth Valenzuela)
Negociación de contratos para el acceso a los recursos genéticos. Series PLEBIO,
Documentos de Investigación No. 2. 2005. ISBN: 958-8201-73-X (with Luis Alejandro
Palacio)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Acceso a recursos genéticos: una aproximación desde la economía. Memorias Segundo
Congreso Internacional por el Desarrollo Sostenible y el Medio Ambiente. Universidad
de Manizales. May 2-4, 2007. (with Luis A. Palacio)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
VI International Meeting in Experimental and Behavioral Economics. April 2010. “Life
Satisfaction and Socioeconomic Conditions in Latin American Countries.” Bilbao – Spain.
IV Alhambra Experimental Workshop. October 2009. Conference: “Happiness
Comparisons: Experimental Evidence using Relative Happiness Reports.” Granada – Spain.
Seminar at the Department of Economic Theory and History. Universidad de Granada.
May 2009. “Life Satisfaction and Socioeconomic Conditions in Latin American Countries.” Granada
– Spain.
V International Meeting in Experimental and Behavioral Economics. April 2009. “Alcohol
Consumption and Risk Attitudes.” Granada – Spain.
Latin American Field Experiment Network. November 2008. “Alcohol Consumption and
Risk Attitudes.” Bogotá – Colombia.
Quinto Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía. July 2007. Conference: “Asistencia religiosa
en Bucaramanga: Un estudio desde la Economía de la Religión.” (with Ronald Javier Rueda
Sarmiento). Organized by Universidad Externado and Universidad Nacional de
Colombia. Bogotá – Colombia.
Seminario Permanente: Resultados de Investigación. Escuela de Economía y
Administración, Universidad Industrial de Santander. 2007-I. Lecturer and organizer.
Cuarto Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía. July 2005. Conference: “Valoración
Económica de Recursos Genéticos como Insumos en el Desarrollo de Productos Comerciales.” Organized
by Universidad Externado and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá – Colombia.
Curso – Taller “Valoración Económica de Bienes y Servicios Ambientales. Aspectos conceptuales y
métodos de valoración.” March 24 – 25, April 20 to 22, 2006. Lecturer. Organized by
Corporación Autónoma Regional para la Defensa de la Meseta de Bucaramanga and
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Curso de Contexto: “Acceso a Recursos Genéticos: Aspectos Técnicos y Jurídicos.” Lecturer. 2004,
2005 y 2007. Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales. Universidad Nacional de
Colombia.
Primer Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía y temas afines. July 2003. Organizer Team.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
Predoctoral Scholarship (Beca Predoctoral de la Junta de Andalucía)
Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa
Universidad de Granada
2009-2012
Scholarship for researching and teaching
2003-2004
"Programa Académicos en Formación: Estudiantes Sobresalientes de Postgrado"
Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
SHORT COURSES
Mini-courses at the Second Brazilian Workshop of the Game Theory Society.
July, 2010
Auction Theory
Professor Paul Milgrom, Stanford University.
Networks
Professor Matthew Jackson, Stanford University.
Non-Cooperative Games
Shmuel Zamir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel.
Experimental Economics
John Wooders, Univ. of Arizona.
Summer School: Panel Data Analysis
With Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University).
Organized by Institute of Fiscal Studies, Madrid, Spain.
June, 2010
Impact Evaluation: from promises to evidences
March, 2007
Departamento Nacional de Planeación de la República de Colombia and the World Bank.
With Paul Gertler (University of California) and the work team of Impact Evaluation from the
World Bank.
Autumn School: Economics on Social Capital and Accounting for Environmental
Economics
October, 2006
With Dasgupta (Cambridge University), Mäler (Stockholm School of Economics) and Aniyar
(Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics). Department of Economics, Universidad de
Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
Summer School: Collective action in the use of common resources
With Elinor Ostrom (Indiana University) and J.C. Cardenas (U. Andes)
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Mother tongue
English: Fluent
SKILLS
Stata, SPSS, E-views, TeX.
REFERENCES
Upon request
Last update: September, 2010
August, 2006