Applied Economic Theorist
My work is on information frictions, political incentives, and living standards — plus econometrics, the theoretical as well as the difficult part. Regulation, policy evaluation, and the tools we build to make sense of economic data.
Previously Senior Economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank and Professor of Macroeconomics at CIDE in Mexico City. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A staged semester project in which student teams build data visualizations, evaluate each other against a structured rubric, and iterate until the argument holds. Developed at CIDE over several cohorts, the approach turns data visualization into a vehicle for research design, programming, teamwork, and economic reasoning at once.
This paper studies whether private banks adjust lending around presidential elections in ways that are politically meaningful. It puts financial intermediation directly into the electoral process and asks when credit allocation becomes a channel of influence rather than a neutral market outcome.
Crime affects housing markets through more than prices alone. By combining price responses with market liquidity and transaction freezes, the paper estimates welfare losses that are materially larger than standard price-based measures suggest.
Debt managers announce auction volumes before selling sovereign bonds, but actual issuance often departs from those targets. This paper develops a welfare-theoretic explanation for those deviations and shows why credible announcements matter for transparency, learning, and market efficiency.
An automated monitoring system for Mexican monetary policy and macroeconomic data. The project combines data pipelines, forecasting, visualization, and LLM-based narration to turn daily releases into structured policy updates. Includes @LiquidMexico (data visualization) and Monitoring Minutes (daily AI podcast).
A player-evaluation project built around contribution rather than headline statistics. It uses data-driven methods to measure value beyond goals and assists and to support scouting and performance analysis.
Email Alexander.Dentler@gmail.com
Memberships American Economic Association (AEA), European Economic Association (EEA)
Location Frankfurt area, Germany