Luciano I. de Castro
Luciano I. de Castro is the inaugural Interim Director for the Center for Intellectual Freedom.
He is a professor of economics at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. Previously, he has been an assistant professor at Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management, MEDS), the University of Illinois (Department of Economics), and a visiting professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Department of Economics). He holds a PhD and MSc from IMPA and is an electronic engineer from ITA (Brazil).
He has published in Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Economic Theory, Energy Economics, and other important journals in economics. His main fields of research are economic theory, energy economics and Brazil’s political economy and electricity markets. Recently, he has been investigating properties and applications of quantile preferences and their connection with econometrics, experiments, finance, and other areas of economics.