DIEGO AYCINENA ABASCAL
6ª calle final zona 10
Edificio Académico
5to Nivel, Oficina E-503.
Guatemala, Guatemala 01010
Work Phone: +502 2338-7901
Work Fax: +502 2338-7893
Email: [email protected]
www.diegoaycinena.com
ACADEMIC POSITION AND AFFILIATIONS__________________________________________________
UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN, Guatemala
Catedrático, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (January 2008- )
Director, Centro Vernon Smith de Economía Experimental– (December 2007- )
ECONOMIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Orange, CA
Research Affiliate (September 2010- )
EDUCATION_______________________________________________________________________________
Ph.D. Economics - GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, Fairfax, VA; 2007
M.A. Economics - GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, Fairfax, VA; 2004
B.A. in Business with Finance - UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN, Guatemala; 1999
 Magna Cum Laude; Dean’s List.
PUBLICATIONS, WORKING PAPERS_& ONGOING RESEARCH________________________________
“Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador” with Dean Yang, Nava
Ashraf, and Claudia Martinez (REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 97(2), 2015)
“Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador,” with Dean Yang and
Catherine Ambler (AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: APPLIED ECONOMICS, 7(2), 2015)
“Valuation Structure in First Price and Least Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation,” with Rimvydas
Baltaduonis and Lucas Rentschler (EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, 17(1), 2014)
“Risk Preferences and Prenatal Exposure to Sex Hormones for Ladinos” with Rimvydas Baltaduonis and Lucas
Rentschler (PLoS ONE, 9(8), 2014)
“Revenue in Auctions with Endogenous Participation and an Uncertain Number of Bidders: Experimental Evidence”
with Lucas Rentschler (revise and resubmit EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS)
“Informed Entry in Auctions” with Hernan Bejarano and Lucas Rentschler (under review)
“Demand for Intra-Household Control, Risk and Discounting for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers” with
Szabolcs Blazsek, Lucas Rentschler and Betzy Sandoval (under review)
“The Impact of Remittance Fees on Remittance Flows: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment,” with Claudia
Martínez and Dean Yang (Working Paper)
“Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants”, with
Catherine Ambler and Dean Yang (Working Paper)
“Injunctive and Descriptive Social Norms regarding Cheating: Cross Cultural Evidence” with Benjamin Beranek,
Lucas Rentschler and Jonathan Schulz
“What Drives Over-Expenditure of Effort in Contests? An Experimental Investigation,” with Diego Aycinena and
Rimvydas Baltaduonis.
“Endogenous Entry in Contests With Incomplete Information: Theory and Experiments," with Diego Aycinena.
“Feedback Response in Competitive Environments,” with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis.
“Entrepreneurial Propensity, Risk and Causality: Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country", with Jaime Díaz
and Lucas Rentschler
“Juror Decision Making and the Timing of Information Acquisition,” with Andrei Gomberg, Alexander Elbittar and
Lucas Rentschler
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“Asymmetric Information and Equilibrium Selection," with Diego Aycinena and Rimvydas Baltaduonis.
“Rent-Seeking in the Lab,” with Alex Armand
“Extending the Analysis: Dominican Republic. An Assessment of the USAID Investors Roadmap and a New
Institutional Economics Perspective on the Barriers to Entrepreneurship” with David Harper and Andrés Marroquín, in
New Institutional Economics and Development: Case Studies and Applications; USAID, Forum 8,Mercatus Center at
George Mason University and IRIS, Washington, D.C., 17 September 2003.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS _____________________________________________________________________
“Measuring the Impact of the US Financial Crisis on Salvadoran Migrants and Family Remittances” with Sebastian
Calonico, Gabriela Inchauste, Claudia Martinez and Dean Yang, in Financing the Family: Remittances to Central
America in a Time of Crisis. ed. Gabriela Inchauste and Ernesto Stein, Inter-American Development Bank (New York,
Palgrave Macmillan) 2013.
“Diseño de Sistemas Económicos” with David Porter and Stephen Rassenti, in Economía Experimental y del
Comportamiento, ed. Pablo Brañas-Garza (Barcelona: Antoni Bosch) 2011.
“Economic Systems Design” with David Porter and Stephen Rassenti, in Experimental Economics.Volume II:
Economic Applications, ed. Pablo Brañas-Garza and Antonio Cabrales (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 2016.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS______________________________________________
Navarra Center for International Development, Universidad de Navarra (2016 - Pamplona, Spain): “Injunctive and
Descriptive Social Norms regarding Cheating: Cross Cultural Evidence”
Universidad del Norte (2015 - Barranquilla, Colombia): “Economía como Ciencia Experimental: Ejemplos y Posibles
Direcciones de Investigación”
University California-Santa Barbara (2015 - Santa Barbara, CA): “Informed Entry in Auctions”
Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (2015 - Orange, CA): “Demand for Intra-Household Control, Risk
and Discounting for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers”
CeDEX Workshop University of Nottingham (2014 - Nottingham, UK): “Revenue in Auctions with Endogenous
Participation and an Uncertain Number of Bidders: Experimental Evidence”
IX Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía, Universidad Nacional y Universidad Externado (2013 - Bogotá, Colombia):
“Demand for Intra-Household Control, Risk and Discounting for Recipients of Conditional Cash Transfers”
ICES George Mason University (2011 - Arlington, VA): “Valuation Structure in First Price and Least Revenue
Auctions: An Experimental Investigation”
Florida State University (2011 - Tallahassee, FL): “Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among
Migrants from El Salvador”
Economic Science Institute, Chapman University (2011 - Orange, CA): “Auctions with endogenous participation”
CATIE (2010 - Turrialba, Costa Rica): “Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants
from El Salvador
Universidad de Granada, Alhambra Experimental Workshop (2010 - Granada, Spain): “Valuation Structure in First
Price and Least Revenue Auctions: An Experimental Investigation”
2009: Universidad de Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay): “Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment
among Migrants from El Salvador”
CONFERENCES AND INTERNAL WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS______________________________
2016: Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Antigua Guatemala); APEE Annual Meetings (Las Vegas, NV);
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2015: Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Antigua Guatemala); Economic Science Association North
American Meetings (Dallas, TX); Seminario de Investigadores Económicos de Guatemala (Banco de Guatemala,
Guatemala); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala)
2014: Antigua Experimental Economics Conference (Antigua Guatemala); Economic Science Association World
Meetings, University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI); Seminario de Investigadores Económicos de Guatemala (Banco de
Guatemala, Guatemala); LACEA Annual Meetings (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Symposium on Economic Experiments in
Development Countries (Bergen, Norway); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala)
2013: APEE Annual Meetings (Maui, HI); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); AEA Conference on
Teaching and Research in Economic Education (Chicago, IL); Economic Science Association World Meetings,
University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala)
2012: APEE Annual Meetings (Las Vegas, NV); Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); Economic Science
Association World Meetings, New York University (New York, NY); Antigua Experimental Economics Conference
(Antigua Guatemala); Economic Science Association Regional Meetings, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
2011: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala); Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of
Chicago (Chicago, IL); Economic Science Association Regional Meetings, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ);
2010: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), Economic Science Association World Meetings, University of
Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark); 3rd Migration and Development Conference, Paris School of Economics (Paris,
France); LACEA Annual Meetings (Medellín, Colombia)
2009: IZA Annual Migration Meeting -AM²- (Bonn, Germany); LACEA Meetings of the Impact Evaluation Network,
Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia); International Economic Science Association Meetings (Washington,
DC)
2008: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala, Guatemala);
2007: Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University (Arlington, VA)
GRANTS, AWARDS AND HONORS___________________________________________________________
“Experimental Economics in Latin America: The Next Frontier. Antigua Experimental Economics Workshop &
Conference” (with Lucas Rentschler): International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics –IFREE
(2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012)
“Comportamiento relacionado con ahorro de familias receptoras de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en
Guatemala”: Fundación Capital (2013)
UFM Faculty Research Grant, with Lucas Rentschler, (2011).
“Channeling Remittances toward Human Capital Accumulation in Central America” (with Dean Yang): InterAmerican Development Bank (2010-2012)
“Bidder Behavior and Performance of Auction Institutions with Costly Participation”: International Foundation for
Research in Experimental Economics –IFREE- Small Grants Program (2010-2011)
“Financial Innovations to Stimulate Remittances and Savings: Follow-up Survey” (as Non-PI, with PI´s Dean Yang,
Claudia Martinez and Nava Ashraf): Inter-American Development Bank (2009-2010)
“Mobilizing Remittances for Enterprise Finance” (with Dean Yang): United States Agency for International
Development / The William Davidson Institute (2009-2010)
Research Scholarship from Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets at the University of New South Wales in
Sydney, Australia (Fall 2005)
“Designing an Integrated Combinatorial Auction for Energy and Reserves for Electric Power Markets”: International
Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics –IFREE- (2006-2007)
Research Fellow, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University (2003-2004)
Social Change Fellow, Mercatus Center (2002-2003)
Earhart Summer Fellowship (2002)
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Fellowship, Fundación Herculano Aguirre (Guatemala, 1998-1999).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE __________________________________________________________________
Courses taught at Universidad Francisco Marroquín: Introduction to Economics (2001), Public Choice (2008, 2011,
2013), Experimental Economics (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), Behavioral Economics (2008,
2010), Advanced Economics Seminar (2008, 2016), Economic Systems Design (2009, 2011), Intermediate
Macroeconomics (2011, 2012, 2014), Intermediate Microeconomics (2012, 2014, 2015), Introduction to Stata
Programing (2014, 2015) Impact Evaluation of Public Policies (2013, 2015).
Instructor Curso Ejecutivo de Evaluación de Impacto de Programas Sociales (June 2013), J-PAL, Guatemala.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP / REFEREEING / LANGUAGES / SERVICE / OTHER ____________
Member of the American Economic Association, the Economic Science Association, and of the Latin American and
Caribbean Economic Association
Referee for: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Experimental
Economics, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics,
Economic Development and Cultural Change, Migration Studies, Environment and Development Economics, Journal
of Development Studies, Latin American Research Review, Management Science
Bilingual: Spanish (native) and English (fluent).
Co-organizer of the “Antigua Experimental Economics Workshop and Conference” (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017*),
Taller Estudiantil de Economía Experimental (Experimental Economics High School Workshop; 2009, 2011, 2013),
Taller de Economía Experimental y Mercados de Energía Eléctrica (Experimental Economics Workshop on Electric
Power Markets; 2009).
CONSULTING AND OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE____________________________________________
ARLINGTON ECONOMICS
Arlington, VA
BOLSA DE VALORES NACIONAL, S.A.
Guatemala, Guatemala
COMISION NACIONAL DE ENERGIA ELECTRICA
Guatemala, Guatemala
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS METROPOLITANOS
Guatemala, Guatemala
MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT FUND / INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Washington, DC
WORLD BANK
Washington, DC
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