Dr Jose Alvarado is a macroeconomist working on public finance, tax policy and wealth inequality. He studies how tax systems shape the distribution of income and wealth, combining administrative tax data with quantitative heterogeneous-agent models.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University and joined UQ in 2026. He has policy experience as Senior Economic Adviser at the Chilean Ministry of Finance and as an economist at the Central Bank of Chile.
He welcomes enquiries from Honours and HDR students interested in taxation, inequality and macroeconomics.
Eric Eisenstat received his Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of California, Irvine. His current research focuses on Bayesian time-series econometrics, particularly structural inference from multivariate models, but he also works on model uncertainty/averaging and shrinkage estimation in big data settings. Alongside publishing in top academic journals, Eric also routinely provides consulting services to policy institutions and private organisations. His recent consulting work has focused on developing and implementing marketing mix models in big data settings.
