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Luisa García Carrión, Ph.D. (candidate)


Department of Business and Economics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Political Science and Quantitative Methods, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (USA), 2022-present.
  • M.A. in Political Science and Quantitative Methods, Texas Tech University (Madrid Program), Madrid (Spain), 2021-2022.
  • M.A. in Austrian Economics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid (Spain), 2021-2022.
  • B.A. in International Relations and Comparative Politics, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Seville (Spain), 2017-2021.

Research Interests

  • Comparative Politics
  • Political Economy
  • Corruption and Governance
  • Gender and Political Representation
  • Causal Inference Methods (Synthetic Control, DiD, Event Studies)
  • Public Choice
  • Monetary Theory
  • Austrian Economics
  • Institutional Analysis

Publications and Media Placements

Select Publications

García-Carrión, L. (2023). The Westphalian defense order and voluntary alliances. In B. Christensen (Ed.), Taking Polycentricity Global: Reassessing Libertarianism in International Relations, Polycentric Governance Series. Rowman & Littlefield. (Forthcoming).

García-Carrión, L., Zarepour-Arizi, N., & Moncrieff, H. (2024). Who Paints the Helmets Blue? Gender Equality and Contributions to UN Peacekeeping Operations.

Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science.

Moreno-Casas, V., & García-Carrión, L. (2022). Neoclassical versus complexity economics: The socialist calculation debate as a clash of paradigms.

Under review, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

García-Carrión, L., & Moreno-Casas, V. (2024). Institutional decentralization and complexity.

Under review, Journal of the Knowledge Economy.

Working Papers

García-Carrión, L. (2024). Exploring the Causal Link: Euro Adoption and Foreign Direct Investment — A Synthetic Control Approach.

Expected submission: January 2026.

García-Carrión, L. (2024). Striking Oil, Stirring Corruption: A Synthetic Control Analysis of the Resource Curse.

Expected submission: January 2026.

García-Carrión, L. (2025). Pay to Play or Pay to Purify? The Causal Effect of Public Funding on Corruption.

Expected submission: January 2026.

García-Carrión, L. (2025). The Conditional Virtue of Democracy: A Causal Re-examination of Corruption Dynamics.

Expected submission: January 2026.

Conference Papers and Academic Presentations

"Striking Oil, Fueling Corruption: The Causal Effect of Oil Shocks on Governance."

49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE), April 2024.

"The More the Merrier? Women Representation and UN Peacekeeping Missions."

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference, April 2024 (with N. Zarepour-Arizi & H. Moncrieff).

"Institutional Decentralization and Economic Complexity: Evidence from Panel Data."

93rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association (SEA), November 2023.

"Mises's Visionary Perspective of Socialism: The Stalinist Period."

5th Annual Madrid Conference on Austrian Economics, November 2021.

"Las contribuciones de Amartya Sen a la Economía del Bienestar: un análisis austríaco."

XIV Congreso de Economía Austriaca, Instituto Juan de Mariana, June 2021.

Honors and Awards

Free Market Institute Ph.D. Fellowship (2022-2025).
J.T. and Margaret Talkington Graduate Fellowship (2022-2025).
Dr. William A. Jackson Scholarship (2024).
APEE Young Scholars Program Award (2024).
Dr. William Oden Memorial Scholarship (2024).