Joaquín Prieto A.

Teaching and Research Assistant

University of Chile

Biography

My main interests are time series and applied econometrics, asset pricing and data science. I have been RA and TA for several courses and professors, giving me the motivation to aim an academic carreer. Besides, I want to pursue PhD studies.

Interests

Time series econometrics
Applied econometrics
Asset pricing
Data Science

Education

M.Sc. in Finance, 2020-
University of Chile
B.A. in Economics, 2020
University of Chile

Research in progress

In spanish

Joaquín Prieto A. (2020). Spillovers in a crisis context: Subprime and COVID-19. Capital Market assignment in the MSc. in Finance.

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Matías Aguilar, Joaquín Prieto A. (2019). Is a first-year mathematical leveling useful?: Evidence from the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile. Labor economics assignment in the B.A. in Economics.

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Teaching material

In spanish

Joaquín Prieto A. (2019). Mathematical Methods I. Class notes.

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Academic experience

Research assistant

Jun 2020 – Present Ercio Muñoz

Research Assistant for PhD (c) Ercio Muñoz: Literature review, code devolopment in Stata and R, mainly in montecarlo simulations, bootstrap and mapping georeferenced data.

Graduate teacher assistant

Mar 2020 – Present UCH and UAH

University of Chile: Principles of economics (MPP), Empirical methodos for public policy (MPP), Quantitative Analysis and Economic Scenarios (Business Economics Certificate).
Alberto Hurtado University: Time series econometrics (MA in economics).

Research assistant

Dec 2019 – Present University of Chile

Research Assistant for professor Erwin Hansen: Literature review, analysis and debugging of databases and codes in different software and languages. This job related to the effect of uncertainty on different macroeconomic variables from an vector autoregressive approach.

Teacher assistant

Mar 2017 – Present UCH and UDP

University of Chile: Quantitative methods (econometrics) I and III, Macroeconomics II, Microeconomics I, Finance I, R for economics and business, Advanced Mathematical Methods (TA coordinator), Mathematical Methods I (TA coordinator), II and III and Introductory Mathematics (TA coordinator).
Diego Portales University: R for economics and business and microeconomics.

Work experience

Research intern

Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 Espacio Público foundation

Part-time extracurricular internship as an assistant in the processing and presentation of data in a project focused on the study and analysis of the Chilean public procurement system with the researcher Tomás Cortés.