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| Ángel Coria | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ángel Coria |
| Occupation | Economist, professor, researcher |
Ángel Coria is an Argentine economist and academic noted for contributions to public finance, taxation, and political economy with influence across Latin American policy debates. He has held teaching and research appointments at major universities and served as an advisor to governmental bodies and international organizations. Coria's work bridges applied microeconomics, fiscal policy, and institutional analysis, engaging with comparative studies that connect Argentine experience to broader debates in Europe and the Americas.
Ángel Coria was born in Argentina and raised amid the political and economic transformations of the late 20th century, an environment shared with figures such as Raúl Alfonsín, Juan Perón, Carlos Menem, Néstor Kirchner, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He pursued undergraduate training at an Argentine university alongside peers who later joined institutions like the National University of La Plata, the University of Buenos Aires, the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. For graduate studies he attended programs associated with international centers including the London School of Economics, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and the University of Cambridge, where he trained in applied economics and public policy methods. Coria's formative mentors and examiners included scholars linked to the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and faculties connected with Harvard University and Columbia University.
Coria has held academic appointments at Argentine and international institutions, teaching courses that intersect with faculties at the University of Buenos Aires, the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and research centers affiliated with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). He has been a visiting scholar at departments connected to the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago, the World Bank’s research units, and policy groups within the Inter-American Development Bank. His administrative roles have included participation in university governance structures similar to those at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley, and he has collaborated with policy units in ministries comparable to the Ministry of Economy (Argentina) and think tanks like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution.
Coria's research program focuses on fiscal federalism, taxation, public expenditure, and the political economy of institutional reform, addressing questions that resonate with scholarship from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Development Programme. He applies empirical microeconometric techniques influenced by traditions from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, combining panel data analysis, quasi-experimental designs used by researchers at Harvard University and Stanford University, and computational methods found in work originating at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His methodological repertoire includes structural estimation approaches linked to the Cowles Commission tradition, difference-in-differences strategies common in studies from Princeton University, and public policy evaluation frameworks similar to those employed by the OECD and European Commission. Coria has examined tax incidence, municipal finance, intergovernmental transfers, and distributive outcomes, engaging with case studies involving provinces that echo dynamics observed in Buenos Aires Province, Santa Fe Province, Córdoba Province, and comparative settings such as Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Italy.
Coria's corpus includes monographs, journal articles, and policy reports published in venues comparable to Journal of Public Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, and regional outlets associated with the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. He authored policy briefs presented to forums like the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and sessions at conferences hosted by LACEA and the American Economic Association. His notable works address tax reform, decentralization, and fiscal sustainability, and have been cited alongside contributions by scholars from Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, and the London School of Economics. Coria has coauthored pieces with researchers affiliated with the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, and international partners from Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Madrid, and Rome.
Coria's scholarship has been recognized with awards and honors from national and international institutions comparable to prizes granted by the National Academy of Sciences (Argentina), research fellowships linked to the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, and visiting professorships at centers affiliated with the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago. He has received competitive research grants from agencies echoing the International Development Research Centre, the Ford Foundation, and programs supported by the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank. Coria's contributions have been acknowledged through invitations to policy advisory boards and editorial positions in journals akin to Journal of Public Economics and regional economic review outlets.
Coria maintains a profile as an educator, mentor, and policy adviser, cultivating relationships with students and colleagues now active in ministries, central banks, and international organizations such as the Central Bank of Argentina, the Ministry of Finance (Argentina), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. His legacy is evident in reforms and debates over taxation and fiscal federalism influenced by analyses similar to those used in provincial budgeting and national fiscal commissions in Argentina and comparative Latin American reforms in Chile and Brazil. Coria's mentoring lineage connects to academics and practitioners at institutions like the Universidad de San Andrés, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the Catholic University of Argentina, and policy groups in Washington, D.C..
Category:Argentine economists