Curriculum Vitae 1 Personal Information Name : Miguel Ángel Vargas Román. Date of Birth : 27th October 1971. Citizenship: Chilean. Address : 253 Manuel Rodríguez Sur, Santiago, Chile Fone : +56-2-6762252. E-mail : miguel.vargas@udp.cl 2 Education 2.1 Undergraduate Studies Transport Engineer (Bsc.), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 1998. 2.2 Graduate Studies Ph.D. Economics, The University of Reading. M.Sc. in Economics, Universidad de Chile. Supervisors: Professor Alan Evans Professor Geoff Meen Department of Economics Department of Economics University of Reading University of Reading Tel: +44(0)1183788208 Tel: +44(0)1183786029 a.w.evans@reading.ac.uk g.p.meen@reading.ac.uk 1
3 Employments 2009-present: Associate Professor, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. 2007-2008: Assistant Professor, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. 2006-present: External Consultant Policy & Economics Council, Gerson Lehrman Group, New York. 2004-2005: Economist. Chilean Chamber of Construction. 2004-2004: Lecturer. Game Theory and Microeconomics (Undergraduate). Adolfo Ibañez University. 2003-2003: Lecturer. Microeconomics I and II (Undergraduate) The University of Talca. 2001-2002: Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant. Department of Economics, University of Chile. 2000-2001: Lecturer. Microeconomics I and II (Undergraduate) Mariano Egaña University. 1998-1999 : Lecturer and Head of Academic Affairs. Department of Transport Engineering, Maritime University of Chile. 1996-1999: Lecturer. Programming Techniques and Propulsion Systems (Undergraduate). Department of Transport Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. 1996-1998 : Head Consultant. Bustos and Cáceres, Engineering Consultants. 2
4 Publications in Academic Journals 2011: Segregation, exclusion and compensating transfers under a dynamic setting with Raúl Conejeros, Applied Economics, forthcoming. 2010: Determinants of Urban Vacant Land, Evidence from Santiago, Chile with Felipe Morandé and Alexandra Petermann, Journal of Real Estate Finance Economics vol 40, number 2. 2009: Defining Housing Market Areas Using Commuting and Migration Algorithms. An Applied Case to Catalonia(Spain), with Vicente Royuela.Urban Studies, vol 46, No 11, 2381-2398 2007 : Group Effect, Productivity and Segregation Optimality, with Raúl Conejeros, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol. 599. 2003 : Autorregulación con la posibilidad de corrupción, with Javier Núñez and Guillermo Díaz, Estudios de Economía vol. 30, number 2. 2002 : La regulación de las empresas sanitarias en Chile: una revisión crítica, with Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Perspectivas vol. 6, 1-2002. 5 Book Chapters 2009: Comentarios sobre el Paradigma Evolutivo Darwiniano en las Ciencias Sociales ylateoríadejuegos withricardomayer andjavier Núnẽz, in La Teoría de la Evolución y las Ciencias Económicas y Sociales: a Doscientos Años del Natalicio de Charles Darwin, Editorial Universitaria, Santiago Chile. 6 Summer Schools 2007: Agent Based Models for Spatial Systems in Social Sciences & Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents. 3
7 Workshops 2011: Annual Meeting Chilean Economic Society, with Tacit Collusion in Santiago Housing Market. 2011: European Association of Regional Science Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, with Tacit Collusion in Santiago Housing Market. 2009: European Association of Regional Science Annual Meeting, Lódź, Poland, with Causes of residential segregation, the case of Santiago, Chile. 2008: European Association of Regional Science Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK, with Segregation and Economic Transfers under a Dynamic Setting. 2008: 6to Congreso Latinoamericano de Dinámica de Sistemas, with Group Effect, Productivity and Residential Optimality. 2008: Annual Meeting Chilean Economic Society, with Segregation and Economic Transfers under a Dynamic Setting. 2007: Annual Meeting Chilean Economic Society, with Group Effect, Productivity and Residential Optimality. 2007: European Association of Regional Science Annual Meeting, Paris, France, with Group Effect, Productivity and Residential Optimality. 2007: 22nd European Conference on Operation Research, Prague, with On the Social Optimality of Residential Segregation, An Agent Based Analysis. 2006: Annual Meeting Chilean Economic Society, with Determinants of Vacant Land. 2006: 13 th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference, with Consequences of Residential Segregation. 2006: EcoMod International Conference on Policy Modelling, with Determinants of Vacant Land. 2004: VI Spanish Meeting on Game Theory and Practice, with A model of Self-Regulation with reputation in the members. 4
2003: V Latinamerican workshops of economics theory, with Autorregulación con la posibilidad de corrupción. 2002: LACEA 2002, with A model of Self- regulation with reputation in the members. 2002 : Annual Meeting of Chilean Economic Society, with A Model of Self Regulation with Reputation in the members. 2002: Annual Meeting of Chilean Economic Society, with Credence Goods, Self Regulation and the possibility of corruption. 2002: Week of Mathematics, Catholic University of Valparaíso, with Credence Goods, Self Regulation and the possibility of corruption. 2002: Annual Meeting of Chilean Economists, with La regualción de las empresas sanitarias en Chile: una revisión del caso de EMOS y una propuesta de reforma regulatoria. 8 Research Grants 2011-2013:Fondecyt research grant for researching on Segregation, Social Conflicts and Economic Growth. US$40,000 2010: Inter-American Development Bank research grant to investigate on Competition in the Santiago, Chile, Housing Market. US$25,000 2010-2011: Lincoln-Institute research grant to research on segregation effects on education. US$12,000. 9 Others 2010-11: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, The University of Cambridge (from December 2010 until February 2011). 5