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Carla Moreno

Assistant Professor

Loyola Marymount University

About me

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Loyola Marymount University. Ph.D. in Economics (Emory University ‘22). My research agenda covers savings, social security systems and labor markets. My current work is on informal labor and pension systems.

Interests

  • Quantitative Macroeconomics
  • Heterogenous-agent models
  • Labor Macroeconomics
  • Social Security
  • Savings

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2022

    Emory University

  • MSc in Economics, 2020

    Emory University

  • BSc in Economics, 2013

    Universidad del Pacifico

Skills

R

Matlab

Overleaf

Github

Stata

Recent Publications

Financial Sustainability of Public Pensions in Cuba: The Impact of Aging, Structural Reforms, and the Economic Crisis

This article analyzes Cuba’s pension system from 2006-2021 with respect to its financial and actuarial sustainability and impact on the …
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Mandatory savings, informality and liquidity constraints

Using a national representative survey of households from Peru, this paper characterizes workers’ decisions to participate in a …
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La desestructuración del sistema peruano de pensiones

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El Porvenir de la Vejez: Demografia, Empleo y Ahorro

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Working Papers

Collateral constraints and the informal economy

We study how occasionally binding endogenous collateral constraints affect entrepreneurs’ decisions to hire workers on an …

The Impact of Pension System in Labor Markets with Informality (job market paper)

I examine the impact of pension systems in economies with large informal labor markets using Peru as a case study. In these economies, …
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Contact

  • carla.moreno@lmu.edu
  • University Hall. 1 Loyola Marymount University drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
  • University Hall 4216