Esteban Degetau
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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