Faculty Profile

Agustin Palao Mendizabal

Title
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department
Multidisciplinary Innovation
College
College of Applied and Collaborative Studies
Clinical Assistant Professor
Information Technology and Decision Sciences
College of Business

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
MS, University of Texas at Dallas, 2018. 
Major: Economics
Degree Specialization: Econometrics
PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2017. 
Major: Public Policy and Political Economy
Dissertation Title: Improving financial access to rural business: An impact evaluation of Guarantee Programs





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ACSO 4020.501, Process Optimization and Prescriptive Analysis, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    ACSO 4020.520, Process Optimization and Prescriptive Analysis, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    DSCI 2710.510, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 2020.501, Data Design, Analysis and Representation, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 2020.510, Data Design, Analysis and Representation, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 4020.520, Process Optimization and Prescriptive Analysis, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.501, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.510, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    INDS 3000.501, Foundations of Science and Technology Analysis, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 3020.521, Inferential Analysis, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.501, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 4410.510, Introduction to Stochastic Processes, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 3710.501, Business Statistics with Spreadsheets, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.501, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.005, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    DSCI 2710.505, Data Analysis with Spreadsheets, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ACSO 4510.511, Deterministic Modeling for Operations Research, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Abstracts and Proceedings
Palao Mendizabal, A.  (2018). Improving financial access to rural business. An impact evaluation of Mexico's credit guarantee programs. Sage Advance Social Sciences and Humanities. https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Improving_financial_access_to_rural_business_An_impact_evaluation_of_Mexico_s_credit_guarantee_programs/7293926
Journal Article
Holmes, J., Palao Mendizabal, A.  (2023). Attacking the grid: Lessons from a guerrilla conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia: 1990–2018. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1874548223000343
Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J., Callenes, M.  Using hotspot analysis to prioritize security efforts in Colombian critical infrastructure, a focus on the power grid. Security Journal. no. 22.  Switzerland: Springer. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs41284-021-00300-7#article-info
Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J. S., Ortiz, N., Callenes, M., Cardenas, A.  (2020). A hotspot analysis of critical hydrocarbons infrastructure in Colombia: ELN (ejército de liberación nacional) and FARC (fuerzas armadas revolucionarias de colombia) attacks on Colombian pipelines. Applied Geography. No. 126(102376), 14. Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622820314752
Palao Mendizabal, A.  (2020). Mexico’s Credit Guarantee Programs: Shifting Regional Impacts. Investigaciones Geograficas. (101), .  Mexico: Instituto de Geografia, UNAM. http://www.investigacionesgeograficas.unam.mx/index.php/rig/article/view/59884
Palao Mendizabal, A., Holmes, J. S., Callenes, M., Cardenas, \'Alvaro,  (2019). Crossing thresholds: The use of spatial analysis to identify intensification of the Colombian conflict. Conflict Resolution Quarterly. 37(2), 177--187. Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hoboken, USA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/crq.21265
Holmes, J., Mendizabal, A., Saucedo De La Fuente, D., Callenes, M., Cardenas, A.  (2019). Paramilitary violence in Colombia: A multilevel negative binomial analysis. Defence and Peace Economics. No. 32(2), 193-219. Taylor & Francis. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2019.1624067
Barreto, C., Cardenas, A., Holmes, J., Mendizabal, A., Restrepo, J.  (2019). A business that can’t lose: Investing in attacks against the Colombian power grid. No. 26(100303), . Elsevier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874548218301781?via%3Dihub
Bagozzi, B. E., Freeman, J., Brandt, P. T., Holmes, J. S., Mendizabal, A., Kim, A., Potz-Nielsen, C.  (2018). The prevalence and severity of underreporting bias in machine-and human-coded data. Political Science. No. 7(3), 641-649.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.11
Holmes, J. S., Palao Mendizabal, A., De La Fuente, David Saucedo,, Mets, K., C\'ardenas, Alvaro,, Armenteras, D., D\'avalos, Liliana M,  (2018). Identifying municipal risk factors for leftist guerrilla violence in Colombia. NSF Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP). 24(2), . De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/peps-2017-0009/html
Ph.D. Thesis
Palao Mendizabal, A.  (2017). Mexico's Credit Guarantees Program: Financial Inclusion and the Promotion of Rural Development. Proquest. url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/mexicos-credit-guarantees-program-financial/docview/2100716535/se-2?accountid=7113
Technical Report
Bagozzi, B. E., Brandt, P. T., Freeman, J. R., Holmes, J. S., Kim, A., Palao Mendizabal, A., Potz-Nielsen, C.  (2018). Supplemental Appendix for The Prevalence and Severity of Underreporting Bias in Machine and Human Coded Data. The prevalence and severity of underreporting bias in machine-and human-coded data. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/abs/prevalence-and-severity-of-underreporting-bias-in-machine-and-humancoded-data/E7B648ECA1E52DDAA4BF79CB622F520A#article



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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