Federico is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University and a public finance fellow at the Public Finance Research Cluster (PFRC). He earned a bachelor's and a master’s degree in economics from Universidad Externado de Colombia. His research interests lie in the intersection of public, urban, and development economics, particularly the evaluation of tax and non-tax incentives to firms and the behavioral responses of households, firms and governments to changes in property taxes.