Mardoqueo Arteaga is an economist currently working at Meta, where he serves as Lead Economist in the competitive intelligence organization. He provides quantitative analysis to inform the company's monetization strategy, working within a team that brings rigorous economic methods to bear on strategic business questions. He is also a contributor for The Honest Economist, where he primarily writes about the effects of AI on the economy, macroeconomic trends, and labor market dynamics.
Before Meta, he was a Senior Economist at LinkedIn supporting major enterprise clients with marketing science solutions and B2B research, a Senior Consultant at KPMG working on economic valuation services, and an associate researcher at the Central Bank of Chile.
Mardoqueo received his PhD in Economics, specialty in belief formation, from Fordham University.
His research focuses on information economics—particularly how signals form beliefs and shape behavior. This encompasses work on credit market expectations, monetary policy communication, and household sentiment analysis using machine learning and econometric techniques. Besides academic research, he is interested in the impacts of AI on e-commerce and advertising, regulatory and policy evaluation, and labor markets.
Outside of work, his main intellectual interests are in creative writing, category theory, history of economic thought, and philosophy (phenomenology and stoicism). He is also passionate about animal rescue, cultural travel, musical theater, fitness, and open-world games. He is currently working on a series of short stories and longer novella. He is also the developer of the Econograph, a network of economists and their intellectual connections across 400 years of economic thought.