Contact
| Barcelona School of Economics | estebandegetau@gmail.com |
| Ramón Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 | www.estebandegetau.com |
| Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | Last updated: August, 2026 |
Education
| PhD in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | 2028 – 2032* |
| Master of Research in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | 2027 – 2028* |
| Master Program In Economics (PhD Track), Barcelona School of Economics | 2026 – 2027* |
| Master in Applied Economics, ITAM, High Honors | 2023 – 2025 |
| BA in Economics, ITAM | 2016 – 2021 |
* Expected
Working papers
- Insuring Unemployment Out of Your Own Pension: Causal Evidence from Mexico’s Retiro Parcial por Desempleo.
Selected work in progress
Call it Exogenous: Scaling the Narrative Identification of Fiscal Changes using LLMs (with Agustín Samano).
The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Changes in Developing Economies: Evidence from Malaysia (with Agustín Samano).
Electing Judges by Lottery: Evidence from Mexico’s 2024 Judicial Reform.
Talks & conferences
| ITAM Alumni Conference, Mexico City, Mexico | August 2026 |
Professional experience
Research
| World Bank | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Short Term Consultant – Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group. With Agustín Samano | 2025 – 2026 |
| ITAM | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Research Assistant – Center for Economic Research (CIE). With Joyce Sadka and Enrique Seira | 2022 – 2023 |
Public service
| Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Deputy Head, Fiscal Policy Planning – Affiliation and Collection Directorate | 2023 – 2025 |
Teaching
| ITAM | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Principles of Microeconomics (Instructor) - Undergrad (Spanish) | Fall 2025 |
| Economic Analysis of Law (TA) - Undergrad (Spanish) | Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 |
| IMSS | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Statistical tools in R (Instructor) - Office Training (Spanish) | Spring 2025 |
Industry
| CEROMULTAS | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Senior Business Analyst | 2021 |
| Business Analyst | 2019 – 2020 |
| T-Rez Consulting | Mexico City, Mexico |
| International Trade Analyst | 2018 |
Recognitions
| Pedro Aspe Academic excellence award, ITAM | 2026 |
| COFECE Undergraduate Essay Contest (Honorable mention), Mexico | 2021 |
Languages & technical skills
| Technical: Claude Code, R, Python, Stata, SQL, SAS, Quarto, Git, GitHub, Power BI, LaTeX. |
| Language: Spanish (Native), English (Fluent). |
Certifications
| MicroMasters in Data, Economics and Development Policy - MITx | 2023 |