Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
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Teaching

Teaching

Courses and lectures on development, economic measurement, research design and the use of AI in research.

Medellín’s hillside neighbourhoods and mountains
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Recent course sites

BSc in Economics · Universidad EAFIT · with Susana Berrío · 2026-2

Doing Economics — Project 1: Tools and Applications

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.

  • Seven sprints, each adding a piece of the paper
  • Fortnightly interviews with working economists
  • Golden rule: no code without pseudocode first
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MSc in Applied Economics · Universidad EAFIT · 2026

Augmented Research Studio

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.

  • Five executable AI labs
  • Five milestones with rubrics and a Quarto thesis template
  • Public portfolio of each cohort
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Specialization in Territorial Public Management · Universidad EAFIT · 2026

Information Management and Data Governance

A 36-hour course for Colombian public-sector professionals on data culture, basic statistics, information sources and dashboards for decision-making.

  • Four units from data culture to Power BI
  • Directory of public data sources and an annotated bibliography
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Executive education for Comfama · Universidad EAFIT · with Paola Velásquez · 2026

Measuring and Valuing Social Impact: a Theory of Change Approach

A 20-hour hybrid programme on theory of change and the measurement and valuation of social impact for practitioners.

  • Eight sessions in two blocks
  • Virtual and on-site sessions
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MSc in Sustainable Finance and Climate Change · Universidad EAFIT · 2026-2

Formulating and Evaluating Sustainable Projects

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.

  • No exams: cross-audits and peer assessment
  • AI expected, with prompts documented and every figure checked against a primary source
  • Private vs social NPV and carbon switching values
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MSc in Social Management and Innovation (MGIS) · Universidad EAFIT · 2026

New Financing Instruments for the Social Sector

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.

  • Declared use of AI tools, verified against primary sources
  • Six sessions, three units, one term sheet
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Earlier courses and lectures

Universidad EAFIT

Economic Growth and Development

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

Techniques of Economic Measurement

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

Research Seminar

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.

Doctoral Thesis Supervision

  • ongoingWalter Alfredo Salas Zapata, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (advisor)
  • ongoingJesús Fernando Flórez Herrera, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (advisor)
  • ongoingDarío Felipe Jiménez Narváez, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (tutor)
  • ongoingLuisa Fernanda Correa Díaz, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (tutor)
  • 2025Germán Tabares, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (graduated)
  • 2025Andrés Felipe Sánchez, PhD in Economics, Universidad EAFIT (graduated)

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