Carlos Barrantes Mora
Name
Carlos Gerardo Barrantes Mora
Nationality
Costa Rican
Work experience
2018
Consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
Analysis on the contribution of livestock to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs
Data management
Statistical analysis
Data visualization tools
Business or sector: Agricultural Economics
2017
Consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
Analysis on the global contribution of livestock production to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Econometric techniques.
Panel data techniques.
Business or sector: Agricultural Economics
2016
Consultant
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome
Market efficiency in Latin American Food Markets
Price transmission and market integration
Cointegration techniques
Statistical analysis
Business or sector: Agricultural Economics
2011-2014
Consultant
Instituto de Políticas para la Sostenibilidad (IPS)
Economic assessment of environmental impacts
Economic valuation of ecosystem services.
Data analysis, statistical analysis, econometric techniques, conferences organization and management, meeting reports and records management, management of research and innovation projects.
Business or sector: Environmental Economics
Education
2018-2020
Ph.D in Agricultural Economics
University of Göttingen, Germany
Market Integration and Price Transmission
Agricultural economics
Econometrics
Ph.D. Thesis: Price transmission and market integration in Latin American livestock markets (in progress)
2015-2017
M.Sc. - Sustainable International Agribusiness and Rural Development
University of Talca, Chile - University of Göttingen, Germany
Market Integration and Price Transmission
Agricultural economics
Econometrics
Sustainable international agriculture
M.Sc. Thesis: The effects of animal disease outbreaks on food price dynamics. The case of the H7N3 outbreak in the Mexican egg market.
2012
Licenciatura - Economics
Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
Agricultural economics
Applied econometrics, macroeconometric models
Lic. Thesis (in progress)
2011
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
Analysis of schools of economic thought
Quantitative Methods and Statistics
Finances, Accounting
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Language skills
Spanish (native)
English (fluent)
German (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
French (beginner)
Software skills
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Outlook
Econometric software: SPSS, R, Stata, Eviews, Gretl, J-Multi
Others: Tableau
Research interests
Economic assessment of ecosystem services and environmental damage
Price transmission and market integration
Industrial organization
