Luis Quintero, PhD

Luis Quintero, PhD (Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor on the research track. His research focuses on structural econometric analysis of urban growth and housing markets.

Honors and distinctions

• Global Real Estate Summit. Best Paper Award, Second Level, 2015
• American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Homer Hoyt Institute Best Doctoral Dissertation Award 2014.
• William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-2013.
• MOOD Fellowship for the 12th Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics. Rome 2012.
• ICE fellowship for the University of Chicago- Argonne Initiative for Computational Economics. Chicago, 2012.
• Heinz Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007-2011.
• Colfuturo Fellowship, 2007-2010.

Selected publications

• Public Procurement, Control and Public Goods Provision. Forthcoming in the book Estate Capacity, CAF 2015.
• Economic Growth Outbreaks: Is Connectedness a Good Predictor? with Carlos Patino. The Heinz Journal of Public Policy. 2014.
• The Politics of Market Selection. Desarrollo Y Sociedad, Vol 57, Universidad de los Andes.

Works in progress

• Managing Decline: Urban dynamics in Declining Cities with Paula Restrepo, 2015.
• Arrested Development: Understanding the Determinants of Cities Productivity with Nora Libertun, 2014.
• Housing Consumption and Prices in a Unified Metropolitan Market with Heterogeneous Preferences with Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg, 2014.
• Disrupted Equilibirium: Distortionary Costs of Rent Control, 2014.
• MCMC Approach to Classical Estimation with Overidentifying Restrictions, 2014.
• Stopping Asset Market Bubbles, 2014.