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Jorge QUESADA VELAZCO

University of Massachusetts Amherst - Economics

Biography

Jorge Quesada Velazco is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He studies the impact of elite networks on contemporary inequalities in wealth and power. His research focuses on the role of elite social networks in facilitating economic coordination, collective action, and the diffusion of behavioral norms and ideas. He is currently involved in several projects at UMASS-Amherst, including “Black Lives Matter in the Board Room” (co-developed with Professors Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Kevin L. Young).

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Publications

Young K.;Tomaskovic-Devey, T.; Velazco, J. “Can DEI Professionals Make a Difference in the Quest for Social Justice?” (unpublished manuscript in preparation for SASE 2024 and Harvard Business Review article)

Young, K., Velazco, J., McQuade, S., Pagliari, S., and Solipa, I. “Are Banks Still Central? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Position of Banks Vis-à-vis Interest Groups, Policy Planning Organizations and the Super-Rich, Unpublished manuscript in preparation for the Special Issue of the journal Competition & Change, edited by Elsa Clara Massoc and M. Kerem Coban, entitled “The Death of Banking as We Know It? The transformations of the banking sector since the Global Financial Crisis”.