José Ignacio Cuesta is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of interest are industrial organization and public economics. In his research, he has focused on studying the effects of the regulation of credit and health markets. His previous research has studied the implications of price regulation in credit markets, quality regulation in the pharmaceutical industry, and vertical integration in healthcare. At Stanford, he teaches industrial organization at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.