Rate My Professor Julián Díaz

Julián P. Díaz serves as Associate Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Kaufman Center for Financial Policy Studies in the Department of Economics at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business, part of the Business & Economics faculty. He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Minnesota, an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and a BSc in Economics from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. His research specializations include international trade, international macroeconomics, and Latin American economics. Díaz teaches undergraduate courses such as Macroeconomics, International Monetary Relations, and Principles of Macroeconomics, as well as graduate courses in Business Fluctuations and International Business Economics.

Before arriving at Loyola University Chicago, Julián P. Díaz was Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College from 2006 to 2013. He has held visiting appointments as Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from September 2009 to August 2010 and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in July 2007, and as Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, in summers 2014 and 2015, and spring-summer 2017. His awards include Quinlan Faculty Development Grants in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019, and Loyola University Chicago Faculty Development Leave Awards in 2017 and 2023. Díaz serves as Second Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association for 2023-2024. Key publications feature “Does Dollarization Promote Trade? Evidence from Two Recent Episodes” (Applied Economics, 2024), “The Causal Effects of FTAs on the Trade Margins: Evidence from Geographically Distant Partners” with Sang-Wook Cho and Hansoo Choi (Southern Economic Journal, 2022), “Skill Premium Divergence: The Roles of Trade, Capital and Demographics” with Sang-Wook Cho (Economic Theory, 2019), “Trade Integration and the Skill Premium: Evidence from a Transition Economy” with Sang-Wook Cho (Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013), and “A Monetary and Fiscal History of Ecuador, 1960–2017” with Simón Cueva (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). His work appears in journals including Economic Inquiry and Journal of International Money and Finance, and volumes by the Inter-American Development Bank, contributing to insights on trade liberalization, skill premiums, and Latin American economic history.