# Who is Ernesto X. Vera Gómez?

Ernesto X. Vera Gómez is an Economist with a Specialisation in International Economics and Management in Foreign Trade from the Universidad de Guayaquil in Ecuador ([https://www.ug.edu.ec/](https://www.ug.edu.ec/)), Master of Economic Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) ([https://www.uam.mx/](https://www.uam.mx/)) and PhD in Economic Sciences at the UAM. In addition, organize the programming seminar with the Julia language.

## Topics of interest
* Economic Complexity.
* Agent Based Modeling.
* Stochastic Processes applied to the economy.
* Networks and Social Networks.
* Design of Artificial Markets.
* Generation and Formation of Expectations in Financial Markets.
* Inequality and social mobility.

## Contact Information

* Phone (and Whatsapp): [phone]
* Email: [[e-mail]](), [[e-mail]]()
* City of residence: Ciudad de México

## Educational training
* Doctor en Ciencias Económicas (march, 2024)
* Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
* Tesis: *"Expectativas Complejas Adaptativas (ECA) y dinámica en los mercados especulativos del sistema financiero"* [http://tesiuami.izt.uam.mx/uam/aspuam/presentatesis.php?recno=24537&docs=UAMII24537.pdf](http://tesiuami.izt.uam.mx/uam/aspuam/presentatesis.php?recno=24537&docs=UAMII24537.pdf)
* Maestro en Ciencias Económicas (march, 2020)
* Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
* Tesis: *"Expectativas Complejas Adaptativas (ECA). Una aproximación desde la Complejidad"* [http://tesiuami.izt.uam.mx/uam/aspuam/presentatesis.php?recno=24547&docs=UAMII24547.pdf](http://tesiuami.izt.uam.mx/uam/aspuam/presentatesis.php?recno=24547&docs=UAMII24547.pdf)
* Economist (july, 2017)
* Universidad de Guayaquil (Ecuador)
* Tesis: *"Impactos de la Inversión Extranjera Directa Extractiva Energética y No Extractiva Energética en el Valor Agregado Bruto (VAB), Medido por modelos SVEC (Structural Vector Error Correction) en el Ecuador, periodo 2007-2015"*

## Work experience.

* Assistant Professor (Sep 2023 - Nov 2023)
* I was responsible for the Microeconomics course for admission to the postgraduate course in Economic Sciences.
* Assistant Professor (Mar 2023 - Jul 2023)
* I was an assistant professor of Evolutionary Microeconomics in the graduate program of Social Economy of UAM-Iztapalapa.
* Assistant Professor (Mar 2019 - Oct 2021)
* Teach different continuing education courses for undergraduate and graduate students. As an Introduction to Programming with R and Julia, Complexity Economics, Social Networks and Agent-Based Modeling.
* Data Analyst (Jan 2014 - Sep 2017)
* Worked as an independent advisor for Banco de Guayaquil, Banco del Pichincha and the Ministry of Finance (among other companies). Develop econometric models for decision analysis, public policy evaluation.

## Papers
* Vera-Gómez, E. X. (2024). *“Sistema Financiero como un Sistema Complejo Adaptativo.”* Under editorial review..

* Vera-Gómez, E. X. (2024). *“Economía de la Complejidad.”* Under editorial review.

* Rosas Sánchez, G. A., y Vera Gómez, E. X. (2024). *"Social algorithm of choice: alternative to neoclassical determinism"*. Revista de Economía Institucional, 26(50), 105–128. [https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v26n50.05](https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v26n50.05)

* Vera Gómez, E. X. (2017) *"Educational Returns in Ecuador, 2016. Differences between the Mincer equation and the Heckman model"*. Published in the book Challenges and Perspectives Economic Development in Ecuador and Latin America, Volume 2 - CIDE; ISBN 978-9942-8657-7-9 in the first half of 2017.

* Development of activities related to the review, editing and design of the books of Mathematics for Economists Volumes I, II and IV. Econ. Christian Washburn Msc. and Econ. Joel Salazar Msc. are authors and full-time professors of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil.

## Skills
### Languages:
* Spanish. (native)
* English (B2+)
* Italian (A2+)
### Programming Languages:
* Julia
* Python
* Mathematica
* R
* $\LaTeX$
* Typst
### Tools:
* VSCode
* ZED
* NVIM
* Pluto Notebooks
* Mathematica Notebooks
* Jupyter Notebooks
* RStudio
* GitHub and GitLab
* Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

## Certificates
* Daily Study Group: Programming Tutorials from WOLFRAM RESEARCH INC. With a total of 25 hours in 2021. [https://www.bigmarker.com/wolfram-u/gen201-2022-aug?utm_bmcr_source=digest](https://www.bigmarker.com/wolfram-u/gen201-2022-aug?utm_bmcr_source=digest)

* Introduction to Julia (for programmers) from MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. With a total of 2 hours in 2021. [https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s191-introduction-to-computational-thinking-fall-2020/](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s191-introduction-to-computational-thinking-fall-2020/)

* Financial Data Retrieval with Forecasting and Analyzing Stock Prices from WOLFRAM RESEARCH INC. With a total of 2 hours in 2021. [https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u](https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u)

* Wolfram Technologies for Business Research and Teaching from WOLFRAM RESEARCH INC. With a total of 2 hours in 2021. [https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u](https://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-u)

* Computational Modeling in Julia with Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic from MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. With a total of 25 hours in 2021. [https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-introduction-to-computational-thinking-with-julia-with-applications-to-modeling-the-covid-19-pandemic-spring-2020/](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s190-introduction-to-computational-thinking-with-julia-with-applications-to-modeling-the-covid-19-pandemic-spring-2020/)

* Guide to publishing a quality article from EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED. With a total of 2 hours in 2021.

### Workshops and courses
* Financial Markets course (virtual) from YALE UNIVERSITY in 2021. [https://coursera.org/share/51c91a9b12b95420b06df1ab92bf4945](https://coursera.org/share/51c91a9b12b95420b06df1ab92bf4945)

* Analysis Complexity course (virtual) from MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY in 2021. [https://coursera.org/share/918a825cf367ee3131350ce7a0f02eb8](https://coursera.org/share/918a825cf367ee3131350ce7a0f02eb8)

* Networks and Dynamical Systems: An International Workshop (virtual seminar) from INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS in 2021.

* Participant of the Complexity Weekend organized by the SANTA FE INSTITUTE (SFI). [https://www.complexityexplorer.org/](https://www.complexityexplorer.org/)

* Econometric Modeling with Cross-sectional Data, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) with a total of 20 academic hours.

* Introduction to Econometric Modeling with STATA, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) with a total of 20 academic hours.

* Game Theory and its Application in our Decisions, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) with a total of 21 academic hours.

* I International Congress of Economy, organized in the cite of Guayaquil by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil, on 22, 23 and 24 February 2017, with a total of 30 academic hours.

* IV International Congress on Economics, organized in the city of Cuenca by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Cuenca and the Mathematics Department of the National Potytechnic School, 21, 22 and 23 September 2016, with a total of 30 academic hours.

* Evaluation of Public Policies with econometric models course, organized by the Superior Technical Institute Cristo Rey in the computer laboratories of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil on 12, 13, 14 and 15 September 2014, wwith a duration of 24 academic hours.

* Panel Data course, organized by the Superior Technical Institute Cristo Rey in the computer laboratories of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil on 19, 20 and 21 July 2014 with a duration of 20 academic hours.

* The Average in Statistical Science course, taught by Dr. Mario Murillo organized by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil on 25, 26, 27 and 28 November 2013 with a duration of 15 academic hours.

## Courses offered
* Introduction to programming in Julia, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa) with a total of 20 academic hours. It was given on January 23-27, 2023.

* Multiagent models applied to economics, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa) with a total of 20 academic hours. It was given in October 2021.

* Economy of complexity. An epistemological alternative, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) with a total of 20 academic hours. It was given in March 2021.

* Workshop Introduction to Data Science with R, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) with a total of 20 academic hours. It was given in January 2021.

* Introduction to Data Science with R, organized in Mexico City by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco Unit) with a total of 20 academic hours. Which was taught in September 2018.

* Course of Descriptive Statistics applied to Foreign Trade II, organized by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil, with a total of 12 academic hours. Which I taught on September 25, 26 and 27, 2013.

* Course on Statistics and Econometrics, organized by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil, with a total of 12 academic hours. Which I taught on 30, 31 October and 01 November 2013.

* Course of Descriptive Statistics applied to Foreign Trade I, organized by the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad de Guayaquil, with a total of 12 academic hours. Which I taught on November 13, 14 and 15, 2013.

## Lectures

* Microeconomics propaedeutic (2023). Postgraduate in Economic Sciences. Department of Economy. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (unidad Iztapalapa).

* Evolutionary Microeconomics. Postgraduate in Social Economy (2022). Department of Economy Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (unidad Iztapalapa).

* Co-organizer, Dr. Isaac Pérez C. and Dr. Ignacio Llamas H., of the seminar "Complexity Economics" (2021). Department of Physics and Economy Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (unidad Iztapalapa).