Tomás Domínguez-Iino

I am an applied economist working at the intersection of industrial organization, trade, and environmental economics. My latest research focuses on the political economy of natural resource sectors.

I am currently completing an appointment as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I will be on the job market in 2026/2027.

I obtained my PhD at NYU in 2021, after which I worked at the Federal Reserve Board before returning to academia in 2023. During my time in the policy world I worked 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 energy transition.

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

Publications

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

Journal of Political Economy (2026, forthcoming)

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

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

Econometrica (2025)

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

Spatial Economics and Environmental Policies

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

Work in progress

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

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

Consumer Protection, Divestment, and Food Security

Short bio

I was born in 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.