Isabel Melguizo
Division of Economics, CIDE, Mexico City
Welcome to my webpage!
I am an Assistant Professor at the Division of Economics at CIDE (Mexico City) and I serve as an Associate Editor for Latin American Economic Review (LAER), and a Guest Editor for the LAER Special Issue: 50th anniversary of the Division of Economics (CIDE).
My research interests are applied theory, game theory, and, economic and social networks
Here, you can find my CV
Working papers
Affecting Distributions of Opinions with Evidence with Antonio Jiménez-Martínez, 2026
Journal Articles
Effort Provision in Peer Groups, with Sergio Tovar, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 28 (1), 2026
Evidence Disclosure with Heterogeneous Priors, with Antonio Jiménez-Martínez, Mathematical Social Sciences, 132, 69-74, 2024
Group Representation Concerns and Netwok Formation, Bulletin of Economic Research, 75 (1), 151-179, 2023
Making Friends: the Role of Assortative Interests and Capacity Constraints, with Antonio Jiménez-Martínez, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 203, 431-465, 2022
Disagreement in Naive Models of Attitude Formation: Comparative Statics Results, Revista de Economía del Rosario, 23 (2), 1-24, 2020
Homophily and the Persistence of Disagreement, The Economic Journal, 129 (619), 1400-24, 2019
Other writings
Redes Clientelares en Mexico, in Hacia una Política Pública Incluyente: Nuevos Desafíos. Smith, H.J.M. & P. Gris Legorreta, Instituto Belisario Domínguez (eds.), 2025
When to Do the Hard Stuff? Dispositions, Motivations and the Choice of Difficulties, Perspectivas: Revista de Análisis de Economía, Comercio y Negocios Internacionales, 12 (1), 2018
Teaching at CIDE
Industrial Organization (Undergrad. Economics), Fall 2023, 2024
Advanced Microeconomics (Undergrad. Economics), Fall 2023, 2024
Brush up course: Introduction to Economics (Master in Economics), Summer 2019-2023
Microeconomics (Master in Economics), Spring 2019-2021 & 2023-2025
Mathematics I (Undegrad. Economics), Fall 2018-2022.
Mathematics I, teaching notes (spanish):
2.-Polinominos, funciones potenciales y exponenciales
3.-Límites,continuidad y derivabilidad
4.-Cálculo diferencial una variable
5.- Aproximación de funciones de una variable
6.-Optimización de funciones de una variable
7.-Introducción a funciones de varias variables