MIGUEL ORTIZ

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about me

I’m a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, in the Business and Public Policy group at the Haas School of Business, and the ACES Dissertation Fellow. I have a BA in Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

In the Fall of 2025 I will join the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor, after spending one year at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Research Program in Development Economics.

My research interests are in political economy, development economics and behavioral economics.

(Curriculum Vitae) • m.ortiz@berkeley.edu

job market paper

Hate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
• Winner of the Weiss Family Distinguished Paper at NEUDC 2023
• Covered in: Marginal Revolution

publications

Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs from Taxation
with Soeren Henn, Christian Mastaki, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra and David Q. Wu
(Accepted Review of Economic Studies)

work in progress

Local Markets as Intergroup Contact Platforms: Evidence from an RCT in Nigeria
(full funding secured)

Ethiopian Factory: The Effect of Managerial Practices of Chinese Firms on Ethiopian Workers
(with David Q. Wu)