Tilsa Ore Monago

My research interests lie in the fields of Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Game Theory, competition policy and economic regulation. I focus on market structures, pricing strategies and switching costs in network industries. I am researching on renewable energy, green hydrogen, electricity retail markets, and critical minerals for the energy transitions.

About me

Currently, I work as a Fellow for the Center of Energy Studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and as a lecturer for the Master in Energy Economics Program of the Department of Economics and for the Online Master of Data Science program of the Department of Computer Science at Rice University . Previously I worked as a faculty (tenure-track) professor and former Director of the Undergraduate Program (Lima Campus) at the Universidad de Piura (UDEP) in Peru, where I am also a member of Lima School of Economics . Before, I also worked as an adjunct faculty in American University (AU).

I graduated with a PhD in Economics at Stony Brook University (SBU), advised by Yair Tauman and Sandro Brusco. At SBU I have also lectured, as the lead instructor, undergraduate level courses. I received an MA degree in Applied Economics from the University of Oklahoma in 2012, funded by the Fulbright Fellowship Program. In 2005, I obtained an MA degree in International Trade and Economic Cooperation from Kyung Hee University (South Korea), funded by the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

I have worked as a consultant for the Markets and Competition Global team of the World Bank Group. Previously, I worked in the Department of Economic Studies of the National Institute for Competition Defense and Intellectual Property Protection (Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y Protection de la Propiedad Intelectual - INDECOPI) and as an Economics Adviser of the Secretariat of Communications of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Perú.