Dr. Felipe Meza is a researcher at CAIE and a professor of Economics. He joined ITAM in 2007. He has worked on the impact of fiscal variables, the behavior of productivity during financial crises, the effects of financial liberalization, and the dynamics of the informal sector. More recently he has worked on the link between productivity and the cost and availability of bank credit for Mexican manufacturing sectors. As of 2017 his research topics also include the fiscal and monetary history of contemporary Mexico, real exchange rate dynamics, and the impact of the US monetary policy. Prof.

Levent is an economic theorist who joined the CIE in 2008 after a PhD at Rutgers University. He has worked on problems in mechanism design and choice theory. He regularly advises student research on these topics.

His recent work explores diversity in menus, autonomy, satisficing behavior and the definition of complementarity. His webpage contains links to his work.