Tomás Domínguez-Iino

I am an applied economist working at the intersection of industrial organization, trade, and environmental economics. I am currently completing an appointment as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

I obtained my PhD at NYU in 2021, after which I worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors before returning to academia in 2023. During my time in the policy world, my work centered on energy commodity markets, focusing on the near-term impact of geopolitical developments for the oil and gas industry, as well as longer-term implications for the clean energy transition.

tomasdi@uchicago.edu | curriculum vitae | research statement | gscholar

Published and accepted papers

Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains

Journal of Political Economy (accepted) | ungated version | supplementary appendix

Awarded Essay Award for Young Economists (World Trade Organization, 2021)

Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam (with Milena Almagro)

Econometrica (2025) | ungated version | supplementary appendix

Awarded Best Student Paper Prize (Urban Economics Association, 2019) and Best Job Market Paper Prize (European Economic Association, 2019)

Spatial Economics and Environmental Policies

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (2023) | ungated version

Work in progress

The Political Economy of Migration Restrictions under Apartheid (with Leonard le Roux)

Geopolitics, Critical Minerals, and the Energy Transition (with Jonathan Elliott and Allan Hsiao)

Short bio

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but grew up between South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago. At 18, I returned to Argentina and enrolled at Di Tella, where I first learned economics. After my undergraduate studies I worked in the tech industry for a few years before deciding to pursue a research career. I was very lucky to be able to come to the United States, and in particular to be accepted for grad school at NYU, where I obtained my PhD in 2021.