Teaching
Courses and lectures on development, economic measurement, research design and the use of AI in research.
BSc in Economics · Universidad EAFIT · with Susana Berrío · 2026-2
Students produce a credible, reproducible piece of economic research with AI as co-pilot and their own judgement in charge: the course is about the judgement tools cannot replace.
MSc in Applied Economics · Universidad EAFIT · 2026
The research seminar rewritten in 2026 around augmented intelligence: “you are the researcher; AI is your lever”. Units, sessions, milestones and executable labs lead to a thesis proposal.
Specialization in Territorial Public Management · Universidad EAFIT · 2026
A 36-hour course for Colombian public-sector professionals on data culture, basic statistics, information sources and dashboards for decision-making.
Executive education for Comfama · Universidad EAFIT · with Paola Velásquez · 2026
A 20-hour hybrid programme on theory of change and the measurement and valuation of social impact for practitioners.
MSc in Sustainable Finance and Climate Change · Universidad EAFIT · 2026-2
Students formulate and evaluate a real agroforestry cocoa project with nature-based revenues and defend it before an investment committee with assigned roles — a bank, an impact fund and others.
MSc in Social Management and Innovation (MGIS) · Universidad EAFIT · 2026
The impact-finance ecosystem and its instruments — social and development impact bonds, results-based financing, green and social bonds, ESG — ending with a term sheet students structure themselves.
Lecture and open materials (in Spanish)
How generative models work and how to use them at each step of academic work — from the research question and literature review to assisted reading, coding and writing — along with the ethical dilemmas they raise.
Summer School on Biodiversity, Bioeconomy and Climate Change (2023)
The puzzle of climate change, its place in economics, and the controversies around defining and measuring climate-smart agriculture.
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Universidad EAFIT
Why do some nations grow steadily while others do not? Classical, neoclassical, exogenous and endogenous growth models, and the critiques that led to new theories of growth and development.
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Universidad EAFIT
A critical view of the questions economics asks and the measurement methods used to answer, validate and contrast them — their reach, limits and ethics.
Universidad EAFIT
Planning, designing, executing and communicating applied economics research: from a well-posed question and objectives to theory, methods and dissemination, through case studies and students’ own projects.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (until 2019)
A crash course in the spatial data analysis toolbox and the empirical problems of applied economics it can solve.
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