RAIMUNDO SOTO Associate Professor Instituto De Economía Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile

RAIMUNDO SOTO Associate Professor Instituto de Economía Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

EDUCATION

1996 Ph.D. in Economics, Georgetown University. 1986 Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Universidad de Chile.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

TEACHING  Universidad Católica de Chile: Econometric Theory (graduate), Time Series Analysis (graduate), Econometrics (undergraduate), and Macroeconomics (undergraduate).  ILADES-Georgetown University: Econometrics (graduate), Advanced Econometrics (graduate), Industrial Organization (graduate), Advanced Macroeconomics (graduate), and Macroeconomic Theory (graduate).

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PAPERS (SELECTED)

Edited Books  Economic Development in Dubai. Editor with A. Alfaris, forthcoming, 2013. Dubai Economic Council.  Economic Growth. Sources, Trends, and Cycles. Edited with N. Loayza, Banco Central de Chile: Santiago de Chile, 2002.  Inflation Targeting: Design, Performance, Challenges. Edited with N. Loayza, Banco Central de Chile: Santiago de Chile, 2002.

Articles Published in Refereed Journals 1. Resource Rents, Institutions and Civil Wars (with I. Elbadawi), forthcoming Defense and Peace Economics. 2. Collusion in Private Health Insurance Coverage in Chile. A Comment, forthcoming Journal of Competition Law and Economics. 3. Fiscal Regimes In and Outside the MENA Region (with I. Elbadawi), forthcoming Middle East Development Journal. 4. Aid, Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa, (with I. Elbadawi and L. Kaltani), World Development, 40(4): 681-700, 2012. 5. Dollarization, Economic Growth, and Employment, Economics Letters, 105: 42–45, 2009. 6. Procyclical Productivity in Manufacturing, Cuadernos de Economía, 42:193-220, 2006 (with L. Navarro). 7. Corruption from an Economic Perspective, Estudios Públicos, 89(Verano):23-62, 2003. (In Spanish) 8. Policy-Driven Productivity in Chile and Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, American Economic Review, 92(2):16-21, 2002. (with R. Bergoeing, P. Kehoe and T. Kehoe) 9. A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s, Review of Economic Dynamics, 5:166-205, 2002. (with R. Bergoeing, P. Kehoe and T. Kehoe) 10. Real Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Countries and Other Development Countries, Journal of African Economics, 6(3):74-120, 1997. (with I. Elbadawi). 11. Structural Breaks and Long-run Trends in Commodity Prices, Journal of International Development, 9:347-366, 1997. (with J. León) 12. How distorted is Cuba's Trade: Evidence and Prediction from a Gravity Model, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 5(1):45-70, 1996. (with C. Montenegro)

Chapters in Books

1. Has the UAE escaped the oil curse? (with I. Haouas), forthcoming in Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World. 2. Resource Rents, Political Institutions and Economic Growth, (with I. Elbadawi), forthcoming in Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World. 3. Sources of Economic Growth and Development Strategy in Dubai, (with I. A. Elbadawi) Chapter 6 of The Global Economic Crisis and Consequences for Dubai Development Strategy, Ali T. Alsadik and I. Elbadawi (eds), Palgrave McMillan, London, UK, 2012. 4. Fiscal Regimes In and Outside the MENA Region, (with I. Elbadawi), Selected Papers of the 17th ERF Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, 2011. 5. Inclusive, Balanced, Sustained Growth in the Asia-Pacific, (with Y. Cao, W. Dobson, Y. Huang, P. A. Petri, M. Plummer, R. Soto and S. Takagi, chapter 1 in Inclusive, Balanced, Sustained Growth in the Asia-Pacific, Peter Petri (ed.), INSEAS, 2010. 6. A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s, in Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century, T. J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott (eds.), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007. 7. Market-oriented Reforms: Definitions and Measurement, (with N. Loayza), chapter 3 in Understanding Market Reforms: J.M. Fanelli and G. McMahon (eds.), Palgrave-McMillan, Hampshire, UK, 2005. 8. Capital Accumulation, Technological Change, and Growth (with J. Panzer), Chapter 5 in The Dominican Republic: Stabilization, Reform, and Growth, Philip Young (ed.), Occasional Paper 206, International Monetary Fund, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)

FULL TIME POSITIONS 2004 to date Associate Professor, Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 2010-2012 Director, International Development, Dubai Economic Council, UAE. 2001-2004 Assistant Professor, Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 1999-2001 Senior Economist, Research Department, Banco Central de Chile. 1995-2001 Professor, Graduate Program in Economics, ILADES-Georgetown University. 1990-1995 Macroeconomics and Growth Division, Policy and Research Department, The World Bank.

OPERATIONAL MISSIONS EXPERIENCE

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Missions with the World Bank: Saudi Arabia (Ministry of Labor in 2012, Ministry of Planning and CDSI in 2012 and 2013), Ecuador (2005), Uruguay (2004), Ecuador (2003), Dominican Republic (1999), Dominican Republic (1995), Costa Rica (1994). Missions with the Inter-American Development Bank: Argentina (1998), Brazil (1998), Ecuador (1998), Honduras (1998), Honduras (1995). Missions with The Carter Center at Emory University. Guyana (six missions in 1995 and 1996).

CONSULTANCY REPORTS FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2012 Labor Mobility and Productivity Growth in Saudi Arabia. The World Bank. 2012 Employment and Wages in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The World Bank. 2012 Evaluating Labor Market Reforms in Saudi Arabia. The World Bank. 2009 Sustained Recovery in the Asia Pacific. Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. 2009 Economic Growth in Dubai. Dubai Economic Council. 2009 Measuring transparency in public institutions. Transparency International, Chilean Chapter. 2008 Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy for Sustainable Post-conflict Transition. The World Bank. 2006 Evaluating the research agenda at the Central Bank of Bangladesh. The World Bank. 2005 Macroeconomics and economic growth in Ecuador. The World Bank. 2004 Productivity gains in the manufacturing sector in Uruguay. The World Bank. 2004 Macroeconomic shocks and poverty in low income countries. Global Development Network. 2003 Dollarization and poverty in Ecuador. The World Bank. 2003 Growth and productivity in Latin America. ECLAC, United Nations. 2003 Modeling exchange rate misalignment in Nepal. The World Bank. 2002 Measuring market-oriented reforms. Global Development Network.

CONSULTANCY REPORTS FOR THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT 2010 A methodology for ranking graduate programs and universities in the world. CONICYT. 2003 A new methodology for valuing water provision. Superintendence of Water and Sanitation of Chile. 1998 An analysis of the economic impact of copper industries in Chile. CODELCO. 1996 The copper boom in the Chilean economy: what should we expect? COCHILCO.

SERVICE AND HONOR POSITIONS 2008-2010 President, Sociedad de Economía de Chile (Chilean Economic Society). 2003 to date Editor, Latin American Journal of Economics. 2005-2010 Member, External Technical Committee, National Bureau of Statistics.

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