Education and career
Eduardo Engel graduated from engineering at the University of Chile in 1980. He then received a Ph.D. in statistics fromWork in the Presidential Advisory Council (Engel Commission)
Beginning in 2000, Engel began advocating changes to the legislation that regulates money in politics, through regular op-ed pieces and as external adviser in a major project by the Chilean chapter of Transparency International.Eduardo Engel, Emilio Moya, Cristobal Tello and Gonzalo Urcullo: "Financiamiento Electoral en Chile: Resultado de una Encuesta y Propuestas para su Perfeccionamiento", Chile Transparente, 2010. http://www.chiletransparente.cl/wp-content/files_mf/1350665019libro_ControldelfinanciamientoygastoelectoralenChile1.pdf Yet it was in 2015, in the midst of a series of corruption scandals involving political and business leaders of the highest level, when he undertook a leading role in the design of and advocacy for anticorruption policies. In March 2015, following a series of corruption scandals, President Bachelet appointed Engel President of the Presidential Advisory Council on Conflicts of Interest, Influence Peddling, and Corruption – known as the Engel Commission. In only 45 days, this non-partisan commission composed of 16 members produced a comprehensive set of over 200 reform proposals covering 21 thematic areas. After the report was presented to President Bachelet and the council completed its mandate, Engel became a firm advocate for the reforms to materialize. He created Espacio Público’s Anti-Corruption Observatory, a pioneering legislative monitoring initiative that employs a user-friendly online platform to assess the progress of the different proposals and triggers incidence actions to help them move forward. So far, this effort has translated into nine laws being passed in areas as diverse as political financing, anti-trust law and civic education His anti-corruption work has been praised both at home and abroad. In May 2016, in a poll by Chilean newspaper ''La Segunda'', Engel appeared as the country’s most admired public figure. Engel has been invited to present this work at public events in Washington, DC, Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Bogota.Research
Engel has published extensively in areas such as macroeconomics, public finance, econometrics, infrastructure economics and regulation. Currently, his research focuses on macroeconomic dynamic models, private participation in infrastructure, and improving State performance. Together with Ricardo Caballero, Engel received the 2002Selected publications
* The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships: A Basic Guide, (with R. Fischer and A. Galetovic), Cambridge University Press, 2014. * “The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships,'' with R. Fischer and A. Galetovic,'' Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013. * “Aggregate Implications of Lumpy Investment: New Evidence and a DSGE Model,'' with R. Bachmann and R. Caballero, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013. '' * Que gane el más mejor: Mérito y competencia en el Chile de hoy, (with P. Navia), Santiago: Random House, August 2006. * “Least-Present-Value-of-Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising'', with R. Fischer and A. Galetovic, Journal of Political Economy, 2001.'' * “Poisoned grapes, mad cows, and protectionism'', Journal of Policy Reform, 2000.'' * “Explaining Investment Dynamics in U.S. Manufacturing: A Generalized (S,s) Approach,'' with R. Caballero, Econometrica, 1999.'' * “Taxes and Income Distribution in Chile: Some Unpleasant Redistributive Arithmetic,'' with A. Galetovic and C. Raddatz, Journal of Development Economics, 1999.'' * “Highway Franchising: Pitfalls and Opportunities'', with R. Fischer and A. Galetovic, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 1997.'' * “Plant-Level Adjustment and Aggregate Investment Dynamics'', with R. Caballero and J. Haltiwanger, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1995.'' * “Microeconomic Adjustment Hazards and Aggregate Dynamics'', with R. Caballero, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993.'' * “The Chilean Plebiscite: Projections Without Historic Data'', with A. Venetoulias, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1992.'' * A Road to Randomness in Physical Systems, Springer Lecture Notes in Statistics No. 71, New York: Springer Verlag, 1992. * “Dynamic (S,s) Economies'', with R. Caballero, Econometrica, 1991. '' * “A Unified Approach to the Study of Sums, Products, Time-Aggregation and other Functions of ARMA Processes'', Journal of Time Series Analysis, 1984. ''References
External links
* http://www.eumed.net/economistas/05/engel.htm * http://www.gob.cl/2015/03/11/estos-son-los-integrantes-del-consejo-asesor-contra-los-conflictos-de-interes-trafico-de-influencias-y-corrupcion/ * http://www.econ.uchile.cl/es/academico/eengel * http://www.latercera.com/contenido/674_214739_9.shtml * http://www.latercera.com/noticia/politica/2013/07/674-532632-9-fichajes-dc-en-comando-de-michelle-bachelet-alertan-a-bloque-de-izquierda.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Engel, Eduardo 21st-century Chilean economists 20th-century Chilean economists People from Santiago Yale University faculty University of Chile alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Stanford University alumni Living people 1956 births 20th-century Chilean male writers 21st-century Chilean male writers Fellows of the Econometric Society