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Roman David Zarate

Román David Zárate

  • Economist, Trade and Integration
  • World Bank

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https://www.romandavidzarate.com/
Román David Zárate is an economist at the Trade and Integration unit of the World Bank’s Development Research Group (DEC-RG). He received a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. His research interests are in international trade, urban economics, and development economics, with a main focus on how different forms of market integration impact aggregate welfare and productivity in developing countries.

Projects

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Expanding the quantitative spatial equilibrium model and toolkit

Nick Tsivanidis, Victoria Delbridge, Román David Zárate 31 Oct 2024
Project
View of Cape Town. Photo by Yasser Abdul on Unsplash

Using data to develop a spatial economic model in Cape Town

Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate 30 Jun 2023
Project

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Cities Spatial Model policy toolkit

Cities Spatial Model: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Model to guide urban planning, policy, and infrastructure investment decisions

Hugh Cole, Victoria Delbridge, Maria del Mar Gómez Ortiz, Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate
Policy toolkit
Cover Gomez and Zarate Final report

Using quantitative spatial-equilibrium models to inform urban policymaking

Maria del Mar Gómez Ortiz, Román David Zárate
Project report
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IGC Cities Spatial Model

Hugh Cole, Román David Zárate, Nick Tsivanidis
Film
Bus rapid transit system in Bogota

Evaluating economic gains to urban investments and policies: Introducing IGC’s Cities Spatial Model

Hugh Cole, Victoria Delbridge, Maria del Mar Gómez Ortiz, Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate
Blog

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