Biography
Félix Modrego is an associate professor at the School of Business and Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. He holds a PhD in Space Sciences from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He was previously a professor at the University of O'Higgins and the Catholic University of the North, a postdoctoral researcher at the Gran Sasso Institute of Sciences (Italy), and a researcher at the Latin American Center for Rural Development. He is currently a principal investigator at the Millennium Nucleus for the Integral Development of Territories (CEDIT).
Recent Papers
- Hernández, L., Modrego, F., Atienza, M. (2023). Skilled human capital accretion, skilled wages and the geography of growing early-stage businesses. Spatial Economic Analysis https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2023.2200483
- Méndez, P., Atienza, M., & Modrego, F. (2023). Urbanization and productivity at a global level: new empirical evidence for the services sector. Regional Science Policy & Practice https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12620
- Modrego, F. & Foster, W. (2022). Labor productivity response of the micro-and-small-firm sector to business entries and exits. Journal of Small Business Management 60(6): 1449-1483.
- Hernández, L., Atienza, M., Modrego, F. (2022). Is industrial related variety an enabling condition for regional entrepreneurship? A comparison between mining and non-mining regions in Chile. The Extractive Industries and Society, 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101096