Dusan Paredes Araya

Dusan Paredes Araya serves as Professor in the Department of Economics at the Catholic University of the North (UCN), Chile, with research expertise in regional and urban economics focusing on spatial market interactions. His work emphasizes causal mechanisms in regional labor and housing markets, supported by leadership roles as former Dean of the School of Business and Economics and Director of the Economics Department at UCN. He concurrently holds an Adjunct Professor position at Michigan State University's Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.

His research centers on spatial economic dynamics, investigating wage differentials, commuting patterns, housing demand, and economic convergence through advanced econometric methods. Key contributions include analyzing spatial inequality in Chile, migration responses to violence in Mexico, and policy impacts of mining taxes on public education. His work consistently bridges theoretical spatial economics with empirical policy analysis for Latin American contexts.

Recent publications (2016-2021) reveal strong thematic continuity in spatial economics, with expanding methodological sophistication in multilevel modeling and causal inference. Dominant themes include labor market spatiality (commuting premiums, gender wage gaps), housing economics (demand attributes, price indices), and public finance (mining taxation, local service provision), increasingly incorporating international collaborations.

Paredes has received significant recognition:

• Peter Nijkamp RSAI Award (2017)

His research leadership includes:

• Chilean Funding: Three FONDECYT projects and multiple National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) grants
• International Projects: Collaborations with U.S. Department of Agriculture and Lincoln Land Institute
• Academic Service: Associate editor of Resource Policy (ISI Q1) and reviewer for major international journals