About Me
I am an Economics PhD student at UCLA working in industrial organization and development economics. Before UCLA, I was a predoctoral research fellow at Stanford’s SIEPR, where I worked on the Guestworker Migration Initiative. I hold a B.A. in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
- Industrial Organization
- Development Economics
PhD in Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in Economics
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Research
Work in Progress
Cubillos, S. (2026). From Tariffs to Producer Returns: Sales Allocation under Import Competition.
Morten, M., Magaloni, B., Cubillos, S., Wang, A. (2026). The Returns to Temporary Migration: Experimental Evidence from the H-2A Program.
Stanford Guestworker Migration Initiative
Pre-PhD Publications
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Gamboa-Arbelaez, J., Melo-Velandia, L. F., Restrepo-Tamayo, S., Roa-Garcia, M. J., Villamizar-Villegas, M. (2021). Effects of interest rate caps on credit access. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 60, 117–139.
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Gomez-Gonzalez, J. E., Melo-Velandia, L. F. (2019). Detecting exchange rate contagion using copula functions. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 47, 13–22.
Cubillos-Rocha, J. S., Melo-Velandia, L. F. (2018). Asymptotically unbiased inference for a panel VAR model with p lags. Borradores de Economía Working Paper No. 1059.