PhD in Economics - Associate Professor in Economics at Chaffey College
I am a full-time Associate Professor of Economics at Chaffey College. In addition, also teach economics courses on a part-time basis in other institutions. Currently, I teach in California State University (CSU) Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, Golden West College and Rio Hondo College. Teaching economics has always been my passion, and I have doing this since 2008.
I received my PhD in Economics in May 2025 at Claremont Graduate University. My research interests include International Economics and Development Policy. My current research focus is on the financing of economic development, specifically on the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the issues surrounding its lending programs.
Claremont Graduate University (CGU)
Ph.D in Economics (May 2025)
Field: International Economics and Development Policy
Dissertation: Essays on IMF-Supported Programs: Analyses of Selected Issues
University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)
M.S., Economics (April 2012)
Field: Quantitative Economics
Thesis: Estimating Interfuel Elasticities of Substitution and Armington Elasticities for the Philippine Energy Sector
B.S., Economics (April 2008)
magna cum laude
Field: Development Economics
Thesis: The Impacts of International Financial Integration on Philippine Economic Growth
Associate Professor in Economics, Chaffey College (2025 - Present)
Part-Time Faculty, Golden West College (2025 - Present)
Economics Lecturer, CSU Long Beach (2024 - Present)
Economics Lecturer, CSU Fullerton (2023 - Present)
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Rio Hondo College (2018 - Present)
Associate Faculty - Riverside City College (2019 - 2025)
Part-time Faculty - Pasadena City College (2023)
Liberal Arts Instructor (Math) - Los Angeles Film School (2015 - 2022)
Assistant Professor - University of the Philippines Los Banos (2008 - 2014)
Catalysis or Stigma? An Analysis of the Effect of IMF Programs on Gross Portfolio Flows to Emerging Market Economies Using a Markov Switching Model (submitted for publication)
Graduation from the Prolonged Use of IMF Resources: An Empirical Analysis (submitted for publication)
Completion and Conditionality: A Parsimonious Analysis of IMF Programs (JICEP, 2024)
Graduation from the Prolonged Use of IMF Resources: The Case of the Philippines (World Economics, 2023)
An Agent Based Model of International Capital Flows (ComSes, 2023)
The Cost of Illness of Exposure to Elevated Levels of PM10 in the Baguio City Central Business District, Philippines (EEPSEA, 2016)