Sílvio Rendon

September 2009

Economics Department                                         Phone: 1 (631) 632-1422
Stony Brook University                                        Fax: 1 (631) 632-7516
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, USA                   Email: srendon@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

                                                                              Web page: http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~srendon/

CITIZENSHIP: Peruvian / Spanish

 

EDUCATION

New York University, Ph.D., September 1997

   Main Advisors: Chris Flinn and Ken Wolpin

   Advisory Committee: Wilbert van der Klaauw and Boyan Jovanovic.

New York University, M.Phil, September 1995

Universidad Católica del Perú, B.A. , December 1988.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Stony Brook University, 2007 to present.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Stony Brook University, 2008 to present.

Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), 2004 to 2008.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2003-2004.

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, 2001-2003.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1997-2003.

Research Fellow, Center for Economic Studies, Bank of Spain, 1998

Instructor of Principles of Economics, Research Assistant (Prof. Boyan Jovanovic),

Department of Economics, New York University, 1994-1997.

Instructor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics and Business, Universidad Católica del Perú, 1990-1992.

Project Evaluator, FONCODES (National Fund of Social Compensation),

Credit Program for Small Firms, 1992.

 

RESEARCH

Publications

- Refereed journals

- “International Job Search: Mexicans in and out of the U.S.” (with A. Cuecuecha). Forthcoming at Review of Economics of the Household;

- “Employment and Deadweight Loss of Observed Non-wage Labor Costs” (with G. Aguilar) Forthcoming at Economic Inquiry;

- “Matching Bias in Labor Supply Estimation” (with G. Aguilar) (2008). Economic Letters, 100 pp 297-299.

- “Does Wealth explain Black-White Differences in Early Employment Careers?”

(2007). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 25(4) pp. 484-500.

- “The Catalan Premium: Language and Employment in Catalonia,”

(2007). Journal of Population Economics, 20(3) pp. 669-686.

- “Job Search and Asset Accumulation under Borrowing Constraints”

(2006) International Economic Review, 47(1) pp. 233-263.

-“Firm Investment in Imperfect Capital Markets: A Structural Estimation” (with S. Pratap) (2003) Review of Economic Dynamics 6 (3) pp. 513-545.

-Book Chapters

-“Non-Tobin’s q in Tests for Financial Constraints to Investment.” Forthcoming in “The Economics of Imperfect Markets,” Springer Book Series “Contributions to Economics”.

- “Mexicans in and out of the U.S.: Facts on Job Search and International Migration”, Forthcoming in Migration and Remittances, Georgetown University-CIDE Mexico.

- In Spanish

- “Búsqueda de empleo y acumulacion de riqueza bajo restricciones crediticias”, en Economía Dinámica, Economía Aplicada y Teoría de Juegos, Ensayos en Homenaje a Ramón García-Cobián, César Martinelli y Loretta Gasco (eds.), Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Católica del Perú (2007)

- “La sobre-educación en Cataluña y su relación con el conocimiento del catalán” (with M. Blázquez) (2006) Cuadernos de Economía, 29(81), pp. 145-173.

 

Working Papers and Papers under Review

-          Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets (with N. Quella);

-          Bayesian Learning and Matching;

-          Fixed and Random Effects in Classical and Bayesian Regression;

-          Over-Education in Multilingual Economies: Evidence from Catalonia (with M. Blázquez);

-          Job Creation and Investment in Imperfect Capital and Labor Markets;

-          Unemployment Dynamics and Social Security;

-          Family Job Search and Consumption (with I. García-Perez);

-          Remittances, Savings and Human Capital (with A. Cuecuecha);

-          Great Depressions and Fake Recoveries: Peru, 1982-2000 (with C. Urrutia);

-          Job Search and Marital Dynamics;

-          Diffusion of Knowledge in New Industries;

-          Capital Adjustment Costs that mimic Liquidity Constraints in a Two Period Model;

-          Working and Studying in Rural Latin America: Critical Decisions of Adolescence (with L. Alcazar and E. Wachtenheim);

-          Job Creation under Liquidity Constraints: The Spanish Case.

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Work in Progress:

-          On Risk Aversion, Wealth, and On-the-Job Search;

-          Estimating Investment under Liquidity Constraints On and Off Steady State;

-          Applying and Approving a Loan: Needs and Fears (with E. García-Appendini).

-          Wage Returns of a Diglossic Language: Evidence from Galicia (with J.M. Rocha)

REFEREEING

American Economic Review,              Review of Economics and Statistics,

Journal of Political Economy,             International Economic Review,

Journal of Human Resources,             Review of Economic Studies,

Journal of Applied Econometrics,       Journal of Labor Economics,

Economic Theory,                               European Economic Review, 

Labour Economics,                             Journal of Population Economics,     

Journal of Industrial Economics,        Economic Inquiry,

            Review of Economics of the Household,

Economics of Education Review,       Estudios Económicos,                        

Research Grants for the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

Research Grants for the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

-          Principles of Economics (Undergraduate), Labor Economics, Microeconomics (Graduate), Stony Brook University, 2008-2009;

-          Econometric Applications in Finance, Admission Course, Central Bank of Peru, 2008,2009;

-          Advanced and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate); Numerical Methods for Economists, Structural Econometrics (Graduate), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, 2004-2007;

-          Applied Econometrics, Graduate and Undergraduate, University of Western Ontario, 2003-2004;

-          Macroeconomics II and Mathematics II, Universidad Carlos III, 2002-2003;

-          Master in Latin American Studies, Centro Internacional de Formación Financiera, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2002;

-          Economic Applications of Dynamic Programming, Master in Mathematical Economics,Universidad Católica de Lima, 2002;

-          Graduate Microeconometrics and Econometrics I, II and III, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 1997-2001.

-          Principles of Economics, New York University, 1994-1997.

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Research Fellow at IZA, 2007.

Fellow of the Mexican National Research System, 2007-2009

National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) SNI Level I.

Research Grant, Secretary of Labor and Social Prevision of Mexico

“Rural Labor Markets in Mexico,” 2006;

Research & Development Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain,

“The Welfare State and Labor Markets in Europe,”

(Project Director: Lluïsa Fuster), 2001-2004;

CICYT Grant, Ministry of Education of Spain,

“Perspectives of the Welfare State,”

(Project Director: Gilles Saint Paul), 1998-2000;

Research Fellowship, Bank of Spain, 1998;

Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University. 1995-1996;

University Fellowship, New York University, 1993-1994;

Research Fellowship, FOMCIENCIAS, Peru. 1991-1992.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

At Stony Brook University:

Seminar Series organizer 2009-2010.

-          Senator of the Department of Economics at the University Senate and School of Arts and Sciences.

-          Responsible for the Department Library.

-          Member of the Recruitment Committee: 2008.

-          Represented the Department at the conference for large course redesign, Albany, 2007.

-          Advising Ph.D.students: Anna Nesterenko, Junyi Zhu, Zhe Li, Patricia Vera, Yunshan Chan.

At ITAM:

-          Member of the Recruitment Committee: 2006 and 2007;

-          RePEc maintainer for ITAM, 2006-2007;

-          ITAM’s Seminar Coordinator 2006-2007;

-          Organizer of the Joint University of Texas, Austin-ITAM Workshop, 2005.

-          Advising Students: Diego Lorenzo, Mishelle Pérez, Mónica Morales, Jimena Soto; Mónica Salcedo, María Elisa Farías;

-          Jury in Thesis defenses of several students.

At Universitat Pompeu Fabra:

-          Advising Graduate Students Dörte Dömeland-Narváez;

-          Vocal in Dissertations Defense Committee of  Fernando Muñoz Bullón;

-          Member of Thesis Committee for Eduardo Melero Martín;

-          Founded the Labor Meetings in 1997. Coordinator in 1998-1999;

-          Member of the Recruitment Committee: 1999-2000.

 

ACADEMIC VISITS

-          Central Bank of Peru (January 2008, January 2009);

-          European Central Bank (June 2006);

-          Central Bank of Peru (January 2005);

-          Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (July 2004);

-          Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) (July 2004);

-          New York University (December 2003);

-          Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) (2003);

-          University of Copenhagen (2000, 2001);

-          Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1999);

-          Instituto Apoyo, Peru (1998).

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Conferences

-       North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society: Durham 2007, Boston 2009.

-       International Conference on Remittances and Migration at CIDE, Mexico, 2009.

-       Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economist at IZA, Buch am Ammersee, 2008.

-       International Conference The Economics of Imperfect Markets: Their Interaction and The Consequences for Economic Theory and Policy, Rome, 2008.

-       Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings: Cleveland 2007, Philadelphia 2008.

-       University of Texas-Austin-ITAM Workshop: 2006, 2005, 2004;

-       Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA): Mexico 2006, San Jose 2004, Madrid 2002, Buenos Aires 1998, Bogotá 1997;

-       Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (LAMES): Mexico 2006, Santiago de Chile 2004, Cancun 1999;

-       13th International Conference on Panel Data, Cambridge, UK, 2006;

-       12th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Society for Computational Economics, Limassol 2006;

-       International Workshop on The Economic Impact of Financial and Labour Market Institutions, Urbino 2006;

-       Society of Labor Economics (SOLE), Boston,2006;

-       Third Workshop of the Latin American Finance Network, Inter-American Development Bank, Santiago de Chile, 2006.

-       IX Dynamic Macroeconomic Workshop, Vigo 2004;

-       Society of Economic Dynamics (SED): Florence 2004, Stockholm 2001, Alghero 1999;

-       European Society of Population Economics (ESPE), (Chicago 2007, Bergen 2004, New York 2003, Bilbao 2002, Athens 2001);

-       CentrA-Fundacion Areces Conference “Labor Market Policy Evaluation,” Seville 2004;

-       Workshop on Numerically Intensive Policy Analysis, Queen’s University, Kingston 2004;

-       Conference “Interactions between and Financial Markets” at IZA, Bonn, 2003;

-       Simposio de Análisis Económico, Salamanca 2002;

-       CAM workshop on “Job search, Unemployment and the UI system,” Copenhagen 2002;

-       3rd Workshop on Institutional Analysis, Barcelona 2002;

-       Applied Econometric Association, Pau 1999;

-       Young Economist Meeting, Amsterdam 1999;

-       Econometric Society European Meeting (ESEM), Toulouse 1997.

 

Selected Seminars

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

University of Aarhus                                       University of Copenhagen,

Boston College                                                University of Western Ontario,

University of Rochester                                  University of Albany

Universidad de San Andrés                            IGIER, Bocconi

Carnegie Mellon University,                           Bank of England,

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta,                   Georgia Tech, School of Economics,

University of Pennsylvania,                            University of Georgetown,

Federal Reserve Board,                                   Inter-American Development Bank,

CUNY, Hunter College,                                 CEMFI, Madrid

Bank of Mexico,                                             Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,

University of Maryland,                                  New York University,

University of Essex,                                        Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,

Universitat de Girona,                                     El Colegio de México,

Queen’s University,                                        McMaster University,

Universitat Pompeu Fabra,                              University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill,

Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA),                       Centro de Estudios Andaluces (CentrA).

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,

Universitat de les Illes Balears,                       University of Tartu,

Università di Modena,                                    European Economic Institute, Florence,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem,                    Florida International University.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

-          American Economic Association;

-          Econometric Society;

-          Society of Labor Economics;

-          Society for Computational Economics

-          European Society for Population Economics;

-          Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association.

 

LANGUAGES:

-          Spanish (mother language),

-          English,

-          Catalan,

-          German,

-          French.