Ana Espinola-Arredondo

Ana Espinola - Arredondo

Ana Espinola – Arredondo

Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh,

4523 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Tel. (412) 641 0402 - (412) 648 1766 / Fax (412) 648 1793

e-mail: afe4@pitt.edu web: www.pitt.edu/~afe4

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh. Ph.D. in Economics. April 2008.

University of Barcelona. M.Sc. in Economics (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados, DEA). Spain, June 2002.

University of Valparaiso. B.S. Industrial Engineering, with Honors. Chile, 1999.

B.A. Business Administration, with Honors. 1999

RESEARCH INTERESTS

PRIMARY: Environmental Economics and Game Theory

SECONDARY: Public Economics, Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games. (Job Market Paper) (Revised and resubmit to Journal of Public Economic Theory).
Green Auctions: a biodiversity study of mechanism design with externalities. (Forthcoming in Ecological Economics).
The importance of foregone options: generalizing social comparisons in sequential-move games. (with Felix Munoz-Garcia).
When should a firm expand its business? An analysis of business expansions when they signal market conditions. (with Esther Gal-Or and Felix Munoz-Garcia).
The effect of Parental Leave on female employment: evidence from state policies. (with Sunita Mondal).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of Pittsburgh

Instructor of Introduction to Environmental Economics, Summer 2006.
TA of Game Theory, Summer 2007.
TA of Introduction to Microeconomics, 2004-07.

ESADE-University Studies Center- Spain

Instructor of Intermediate Microeconomics, Summer 2001.

University of Valparaiso - Chile

TA of Intermediate Microeconomics, 1997-98.
TA of Introduction to Macroeconomics, 1998.
TA of Introduction to Microeconomics, 1997.
TA of Introduction to Economics, 1996-98.

University Federico Santa Maria -Chile

TA of Intermediate Microeconomics, 1997-98.
TA of Marketing, 1997-98.

University of Viña del Mar - Chile

Instructor for Governmental Programs on Accounting. Chile, 1997-98.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

Center for Information Technologies. University of Barcelona, Spain 2002.
Barcelona Institute of Economics. Spain, 2001- 02.
Chilean Oil Company COPEC. Chile, 1995.

Advisor

Customs National Service. Chile, 1998 – 2000.
Innovation and development of nonpolluting technologies. FinanProyect Consulting. Chile, 1996–98.

REFEREE SERVICE

Instructor’s Manual for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8th edition. (Tom Tietenberg and Lynne Lewis). Addison-Wesley. 2008
Ecological Economics. 2007-2008.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Full tuition scholarship and stipend from University of Pittsburgh, 2003-present.
Arts & Sciences Summer Fellowship, 2007.
GSO and GPSA Travel Grants, University of Pittsburgh, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2006 and 2007.
Full tuition. University of Barcelona, 2001-02.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games". XXXII Simposio de Análisis Económico in Granada, Spain. December 13-15, 2007.
"Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games". CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop. Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder. September 21-22, 2007
"Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games". Public Economic Theory Conference (PET07). Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. July 6 - 8, 2007.
"Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games" and "Green Auctions: a biodiversity study of mechanism design with externalities". 7th Meeting on Game Theory and Practice Dedicated to Energy, Environment and Natural Resources. HEC Montréal, Canada. May 28 - 30, 2007.
"The effect of Parental Leave on female employment: evidence from state policies". Midwest Economics Association, 71st Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 23-25, 2007
"The Importance of Foregone Options". Seminar in Microeconomic Theory. Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh. November 2006.
"Green Auctions: a biodiversity study of mechanism design with externalities". 8th Annual BIOECON Conference on the Economic Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity. Kings College Cambridge, University of Cambridge, UK. August 29-30, 2006
"Cost-Benefit Analysis versus Multicriteria Analysis". Climate change in the Mediterranean region - part II: socio-economic aspects and impacts. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. November, 12-16 2001.