Mayara Felix is an economist who specializes in international trade and economic development. She studies the effects of policies intended to improve market efficiency in developing countries such as tariff reforms, free trade agreements, tax reforms, and outsourcing, with a special focus on firm behavior and competition in response to these policies. Her empirical focus is Latin America, with additional work in Indonesia.
Felix earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in mathematics and economics from Mount Holyoke College. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a faculty affiliate at the Yale Economic Growth Center, and an invited researcher at JPAL-Latin America. Prior to joining Yale, Felix spent a year as an IES postdoctoral researcher at Princeton and another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.