Tomás Domínguez-Iino

I am a Research Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

My research interests are in industrial organization, trade, and environmental economics.

I completed my PhD at NYU in 2021, after which I worked at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors before returning to academia.  

During my time at the Board, my policy work was 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

Working papers

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

draft   |   appendix

Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy (second round, minor revision requested)

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

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

draft   |   appendix

Conditionally accepted, Econometrica (replication package accepted)

Awarded Best Student Paper Prize (2019) by the Urban Economics Association

Awarded Best Job Market Paper Prize (2019) by the European Economic Association


Work in progress

"The Political Economy of Migration Restrictions under Apartheid" with Leonard Le Roux (Sciences Po)

"Geopolitics, Critical Minerals, and the Energy Transition"  with Jonathan Elliott (Johns Hopkins) and Allan Hsiao (Stanford)


Publications

"Spatial Economics and Environmental Policies"

working paper version  

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2023

Short bio

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but grew up mostly in South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago. At 18, I returned to Argentina and enrolled at Di Tella, where I first learned economics.  After completing my undergraduate degree, I spent a few years working in the tech industry 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 graduate school at NYU, where I completed my PhD in 2021.