Javier Turen is an Assistant professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC). In 2018, Javier finished his PhD in economics from the University College London (UCL); he also has a Master's in Research from the same University and a Master's in Economics from Universidad de Chile. His research studies the macroeconomic implications of information frictions on firms' pricing decisions, the expectation formation process of agents, and the consequences of limited information on startups. His research combines both theoretical and empirical tools to tackle these questions. Javier has been awarded two major research grants from the Chilean government to pursue his research agenda. His work has been published in influential journals such as the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and the Journal of Monetary Economics.
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