Alvaro Bustos

Law and Finance Fellow

Phone: (312) 503-0282
E-mail: a-bustos@law.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Alvaro Bustos is an assistant professor at the Business School of Catholic University of Chile. He has been a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, both at the Law School and the Kellogg School of Management (finance department), since September 2006. His research focuses on law and finance, industrial organization, and corporate finance. He holds a BA and MSC in civil industrial engineering from the University of Chile, a MA in legal studies from Northwestern University and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Law and Finance
Industrial Organization

Corporate Finance

COURSES

Business Strategy for Lawyers

Corporate Finance

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Could Higher Taxes Increase the Long-Run Demand for Capital?: Theory and Evidence from Chile, (joint with Eduardo M. R. A. Engel and Alexander Galetovic), Journal of Development Economics 73 (2): 675-697, (2004)
Monopoly Regulation, Chilean Style: The Efficient-Firm Standard in Theory and Practice, (joint with Alexander Galetovic), forthcoming in Regulatory Economics and Quantitative Methods. Evidence from Latin America. Omar Chisari editor, Edward Elgar, (2007)

Recent Publications

Vertical Integration and Sabotage with a Regulated Bottleneck Monopoly, 9 B.E. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY Article 35
Litigation and the Optimal Combination of Vague and Precise Clauses in Contracts
Could Higher Taxes Increase the Long-Run Demand for Capital?: Theory and Evidence for Chile , 2004
Monopoly Regulation, Chilean Style: The Efficient-Firm Standard in Theory and Practice , 2007
Could Higher Taxes Increase the Long-Run Demand for Capital?: Theory and Evidence for Chile , 73 JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 675-697, 2004

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EDUCATION

BA, University of Chile
MSC, University of Chile
MA, Legal Studies, Northwestern University
PhD, Economics, Princeton University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Princeton University