Gastón Illanes Orellana
External consultant
As a professor at the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, his research specializes in empirical Industrial Organization, with emphasis on consumer and company behavior in financial product markets. He has researched the Administrators of Pension Funds (AFPs) and annuities market in Chile, and the vertical relationships between financial products dealers and financial product companies in the United States.
He has been a professor of “An Introduction to Economics” at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, professor of Industrial Organization (undergraduate) at MIT, and Econometrics (undergraduate) and Industrial Organization (doctorate) at Northwestern University.