CAMILO GARCIA‐JIMENO, Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA – SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Curriculum Vitae Date: January, 2016 Office Address: 528 McNeil Building Department of Economics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 Citizen of Colombia, U.S. Permanent Resident Education: 2011 Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (Economics) 2006 B.A. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (History) 2004 M.A. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Economics) 2003 B.A. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (Economics) Faculty Appointments: 2011‐2016 Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania 2011‐present Member, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Awards, Honors, and Membership in Honorary Societies: 2016 Vice‐Provost for Research URF grant, University of Pennsylvania 2015 Wharton School Dean’s Research Fund grant, University of Pennsylvania 2015 Net Institute research grant 2014 Vice‐Provost for Research URF grant, University of Pennsylvania 2009 George and Obie Schultz research grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006 Lauchlin Currie Fellow, Banco de la Republica de Colombia 2006 Magna Cum Laude B.A. degree in History, Universidad de los Andes 2004 Honors M.A. degree and lauded thesis in Economics, Universidad de los Andes 2003 Honors B.A. degree in Economics, Universidad de los Andes Membership in Professional & Scientific Societies and Other Professional Activities: International: 2012‐present Econometric Society National: 2012‐present American Economic Association Editorial Positions: 2011‐present Reviewer – Journal of Political Economy 2011‐present Reviewer – International Economic Review 2011‐present Reviewer – Journal of Development Economics 2011‐present Reviewer – Public Choice 2012‐present Reviewer – American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2013‐present Reviewer – Econometrica 2013‐present Reviewer – Review of Economics and Statistics 2013‐present Reviewer – Oxford Development Studies 2014‐present Reviewer – Journal of the European Economic Association 2014‐present Reviewer – Journal of Comparative Economics 2014‐present Reviewer – Journal of Public Economics 2015‐present Reviewer – Review of Economic Studies Academic and Institutional Committees: 2011‐present Member, Admissions Committee, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics Lectures by Invitation: Nov., 2015 “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections” – Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Nov., 2015 “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections” – Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Nov., 2015 “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections” – CEMFI, Madrid, Spain Sept., 2015 “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections” – Wallis Political Economy Conference, University of Rochester, NY March, 2015 “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections” – Princeton Political Economy Workshop, Princeton University, NJ Oct., 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐ Harvard Positive Political Economy Workshop, Harvard University, MA Sept., 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐ Berkeley Political Economy Workshop, Berkeley University, CA April, 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐ Princeton Political Economy Conference, Princeton University, NJ March, 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐ Social Science Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Feb., 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐Department of Politics, New York University, New York City, NY Jan., 2014 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐Department of Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Oct., 2013 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Sept., 2013 “State Capacity and Economic Development” ‐Institutional Challenges in Emerging Economies Conference, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden May, 2013 “Learning and Law Enforcement during Prohibition” ‐
Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC April, 2013 “Learning and Law Enforcement during Prohibition” ‐Leitner Seminar Speaker, Yale University, New Haven, CT Oct., 2012 “Learning and Law Enforcement during Prohibition” ‐ SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC. Nov., 2011 “Learning and Law Enforcement during Prohibition” ‐
Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Sept., 2011 “Learning and Law Enforcement during Prohibition” ‐ Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Sept., 2011 “Slavery and Economic Development in Colombia” ‐Journal of Comparative Economics Conference: Institutions in Africa, Latin America, and Around the World, Pittsburgh, PA Organizing Roles in Scientific Meetings: Sept., 2013 Penn Political Economy Conference on State Capacity (Organizer), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Bibliography: Research Publications, peer reviewed: 1. Acemoglu, Daron, Camilo Garcia‐Jimeno, and James A. Robinson. “Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long‐Run Development in Colombia”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 534‐564, 2012. 2. Acemoglu, Daron, Camilo Garcia‐Jimeno, and James A. Robinson. “State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach”. The American Economic Review, Vol. 105(8), pp. 2364‐2409, 2015. 3. Garcia‐Jimeno, Camilo. “The Political Economy of Moral Conflict: An Empirical Study of Learning and Law Enforcement under Prohibition”, forthcoming in Econometrica, 2016. Chapters: 1. Garcia‐Jimeno, Camilo and James A. Robinson. “Prosperity, Inequality, and Elites: The Determinants of Political Office‐holding in Nineteenth‐Century Antioquia”, in Adolfo Meisel and María Teresa Ramírez (eds.), Colombian Economic History in the Nineteenth Century, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Bogotá, 2010. 2. Garcia‐Jimeno, Camilo and James A. Robinson. “The Myth of the Frontier”, in Dora Costa and Naomi Lamoreaux (eds.), Understanding Long‐Run Economic Growth. Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011. Working Papers: 1. DiTraglia, Francis and Camilo Garcia‐Jimeno (2015). “A Framework for Eliciting, Incorporating, and Disciplining Identification Beliefs in Linear Models”, PIER Working paper, University of Pennsylvania. 2. DiTraglia, Francis and Camilo Garcia‐Jimeno (2015). “On Mis‐measured Binary Regressors: An Identification Result and some Comments on the Literature”, University of Pennsylvania. 3. Garcia‐Jimeno, Camilo and Pinar Yildirim “Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Media Coverage and Senate Elections”. University of Pennsylvania.