Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán

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Assistant Professor; Senior Fellow, IPL
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Curriculum Vitae

Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park. His research examines the factors that influence budgetary decision-making processes and the role of social equity in public budgeting. His research has been published in Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Public Budgeting & Finance and other outlets.

Before joining the faculty, Martínez Guzmán earned a Ph.D. in policy studies from the University of Maryland College Park, master's degrees in economics and public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a BA in economics from Universidad Santa María in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He also has several years of experience at the Inter-American Development Bank working on governance reforms in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Areas of Interest
  • Public budgeting; public financial management; public pensions
PLCY303 Public Economics: Raising and Spending the People’s Money
3 Credit(s)

Applied course in public finance, including introductions to resource mobilization (including taxation), macroeconomic policy, key public expenditure policies, and government budgetary processes and politics. The course will build on the foundations from ECON 200 to address the specific application of public finance principles to solving public problems. The course will focus on the principles of welfare economics (including market failure), economic principles as applied to particular spending programs and tax choices, and issues and institutions involved in the allocation and management of resources both at a national and subnational level. The focus of the course is on these issues from both a domestic and global perspective. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to apply the tools of economics to inform societal and governmental choices, and understand how those choices are made in practice. 
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Prerequisite(s): ECON200

PLCY670 Public Budgeting and Financial Management
3 Credit(s)

Covers how governments raise, spend, borrow, invest, and transfer public funds. It reviews federal, state, and local budget processes and introduces analytical techniques including basic spreadsheet skills, evaluating alternative revenue sources, revenue and expenditure forecasting, cost allocation, break-even analysis, capital budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, choice over time (discounting, net present value, future value, internal rate of return), bond pricing, investment strategy, and cash management.
Schedule of Classes

PLCY670 Public Budgeting & Financial Management
3 Credit(s)

Covers how governments raise, spend, borrow, and manage public funds. Reviews federal,state, and local budget processes and introduces analytical techniques including basic spreadsheet skills, evaluating alternative revenue sources, revenue and expenditure forecasting, cost allocation, capital budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, discounting and present value, bond analysis, cash management and intergovernmental finance.

Schedule of Classes

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