Edgar Javier Sanchez Carrera / Professore Associato

Edgar (Mexican Economist) is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Society, and Politics at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. 

From 2011 to 2017, Edgar served as Visiting Professor-Researcher at: i) the Faculty of Economics of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, and ii) at the University of Siena, Italy. Being a lecturer on Economic Theory, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Economic Development, and Economic Growth. 

Edgar is Bachelor in Economics (2003) at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico. In 2005, Edgar completed his Master's degree in mathematical economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, and in 2007 a master's degree in political economy from the University of Siena, Italy.

Edgar is  Ph.D. in economics from the University of Siena (2010), Italy, under the supervision of Costas Azariadis and Lionello F. Punzo, and the evaluation commission by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintisand Elvio Accinelli. Edgar's PhD thesis explored the evolution and strategic foundations of Poverty Traps. In 2010, Edgar received the Vinci Prize for the best doctoral thesis in economics in Italy from the Parthenope University in Naples, Italy. 

Edgar completed a post doctoral stay at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Costas Azariadis. 

Edgar's main fields of research: microeconomics and macrofoundations of economic growth, institutional and development economics, problems and troubles of economic development, evolutionary game theory, applied econometrics, and poverty traps. 

Growth and Inequality in the Mexican States: Regimes, Thresholds, and Traps. Papers in Regional Science https://rsaiconnect.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pirs.12616

Macrodynamic Modeling of Innovation Equilibria and Traps. The B E Journal of Macroeconomics (DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0258)

What drives TFP long-run dynamics in five large European economies? Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40888-021-00215-x

Socioeconomic inequalities in Europe. Economic Analysis and Policy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0313592621000722

Long-term causes of populism. Journal of Economic Interation and Coordination https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11403-020-00300-7

Asymmetries in the euro area and TFP growth: evidence from three major European economies. Journal of Economic Studies https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JES-03-2020-0134/full/html

Does too much liquidity generate instability? Journal of Economic Interation and Coordination https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11403-020-00296-0#citeas

Real option value and poverty trap. Journal of Dynamics & Games https://www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/10.3934/jdg.2020025

Can Income Inequality Promote Democratization? METROECONOMICA - International Review of Economics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/meca.12287

Foreword to the SCED special issue on “Nonlinear Social Dynamics. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2019.11.003

Clustering and Regime Dynamics for Economic Growth and Income Inequality. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2019.09.010

Economic Rationality and Rational Credence. International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics. https://www.igi-global.com/article/economic-rationality-and-rational-credence/223980

Network Structures and Poverty Traps. Dynamic Games and Applications. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13235-018-0256-8

Evolutionary Dynamics of Poverty Traps. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00191-018-0575-3