The Price of Violence
How the October 2019 social unrest weighed on Santiago's property values — the question behind my job market paper.
Op-eds & interviews
I write regularly in the Chilean press on housing, real estate, and urban policy. Most columns are in Spanish; the full archive (130+ pieces) lives at Fundación P!ensa.
Selected op-eds
The Legitimacy of the Property Tax
Why Chile's property tax (contribuciones) is defensible, and where reform should actually focus.
Land Seizures: No Silver Bullets
Why informal land seizures (tomas) have no easy policy fix, and what a serious response would require.
Reactivating Supply: The 2025 Housing Challenge
What it would take to restart stalled housing production in Chile.
Sell the Stock, or Reactivate Investment?
The policy trade-off facing a real estate sector sitting on unsold inventory.
AI Is the Calculator of Our Era
On generative AI and how universities should rethink what they teach and assess (in English, for LSE).
Interviews & press
On the Property-Tax Exemption and Municipal Finances
Interviewed on how exempting property taxes erodes municipal revenue over time.
On the Government's Plan to Lower Housing Prices
Quoted on the measures behind the government's housing-affordability proposals.
On the MINVU Budget
Quoted on why the housing ministry's budget increase goes to debts and pending commitments, not new subsidies.
The San Antonio Land Seizure: A Lesson to Learn
On what the San Antonio toma reveals about the failures of Chilean housing policy.