Biography
Daniel is an Economics Ph.D. Student at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include antitrust enforcement, merger analyses and the effects of product variety on consumer surplus. His dissertation focuses on the relationship between product variety, mergers and consumer surplus in the context of the Miller-Coors merger of 2008.
During his time at UCLA, he has taught a variety of courses focused on Microeconomics, including Introductory Economics, Intro to Microeconomics and Data Science for Economists. He has also assisted on several economic papers.
Prior to the Ph.D., he worked at the Kansas City Fed as a Research Associate for two years on a variety of projects focused on surveying non-profits, examining consumer credit data and presenting economic updates to community members.
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Merger Analyses
- The Effects of Product Variety on Consumer Surplus
PhD in Economics, 2024
University of California, Los Angeles
Master's in Economics, 2020
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Mathematics, 2016
Occidental College
Experience
- Led TA sections for 20 Economics Classes teaching the following courses for groups of students ranging from 10 to 30.
- Introductory Economics
- Economics for a General Audience
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Data Science for Economists
- Wrote discussion notes and questions for homework and tests.
- Designed a survey distributed to over 100 students for an internal department study, analyzed the results of the survey, and wrote a report on experiences of transfer students studying economics.
- In a separate project for a working paper on an Economic History topic, programmed a tool in Python designed to extract information from HTML pages, convert PDFs to CSV files and cleaned geographic and census data in STATA.
- Developed a tool in ArcGIS that matches the geographic and census information to geographic shapefiles and distances.
- Wrote appendix chapters detailing the cleaning procedure and all code related to the project.
- Taught Economics 101: Intermediate Microeconomics to a class of 25 undergrad students.
- Created all class notes, slides, discussion notes, and questions for homework and tests.
- Helped students with material in weekly office hours and through email.
- Prepared literature reviews, organized data and coded economic models for Community Affairs and Economic Department staff.
- Penned internal and external publications for community organizations, academia, and public audiences.
- Performed speaking engagements to roundtables and community groups on economic trends.
- Coauthored three articles describing Low and Middle-Income Survey Results and Consumer Credit Report Analyses. Solo authored two articles focused on Mixed-Income housing and subprime auto lending.
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Contact
- danielrperez@g.ucla.edu
- Bunche Hall 8276, 315 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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