Es profesor en el Departamento de Economía y en la Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA). También es Director Ejecutivo del Centro de Economía de la Creatividad UCEMA, e investigador asociado del Center of Excellence on Human Capital and Economic Growth and Development de la Universidad de Búfalo. Sus trabajos de investigación recientes se han concentrado en la economía de los trasplantes de órganos. Fue Visiting Fellow del Becker Friedman Institute de la Universidad de Chicago, y profesor visitante en el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Western Ontario, Canadá. También fue profesor en el Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Búfalo durante el período 2005-2008 y profesor visitante de la misma institución en 2014. Obtuvo el Doctorado en Economía en la Universidad de Chicago y la Licenciatura en Economía en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

Julio J. Elias is Professor in the Department of Economics and Business School of the University of CEMA (UCEMA), Argentina. He is also Executive Director of the UChicago/UCEMA Joint Inititiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE), Director of the MA program in Economics at UCEMA and a Research Associate of the Center of Excellence on Human Capital and Economic Growth and Development of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was Visiting Fellow of the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was also Chief Economist of BICE, Argentina, and Senior economist at the Central Bank of Argentina. He earned his BA from the Universidad Di Tella in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2005. His research focuses on health economics, economic development, the economics of education and labor economics. He has studied with Gary Becker the impact of allowing remuneration for organ donations. His current research uses experimental economics to understand the economics of controversial transactions. He has articles published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Plos One. In 2016, a joint paper of Mauro Alem and Julio Elias was awarded the “Rommel Acevedo Latin American Award on Developing Banking” of ALIDE.