Cristian Sepulveda, Research Associate
(Chile)
E-mail: csepulveda@gsu.edu
Cristian Sepulveda, originally from Chile, is currently a fifth year doctoral student at the Economics department, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is in the process of finishing the Ph.D. dissertation, which is focused on two topics: 1) The condition for the optimal amount of public expenditures, and 2) the effect of fiscal decentralization on the distribution of income. His research interests also include social choice, behavioral economics and labor economics.
He joined the International Studies Program as a Research Assistant four years ago to conduct research in the field of fiscal decentralization, and after two years he was hired as a Research Associate, which is his current position. During this period, he has been involved in a number of projects, and coauthored several policy reports for the governments of Nicaragua, Romania and Peru. In addition, he has also participated as main or guest lecturer in a variety of training programs on fiscal decentralization.
