Publications

Hidden Information as a Source of Misallocation: An Application to the Opioid Crisis, with Bayarmaa Dalkhjav, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 174, May 2025. 
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Hide the Cookie Jar: Nudging Towards Healthy Eating, with Deniz Ozabaci. Accepted, Journal of the Economic Science Association.
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How Important are Trend Shocks? The Role of the Debt Elasticity of Interest Rate, with Yin Germaschewski and Jay Horvath, Journal of International Economics, Volume 152, November 2024.
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The Redistributive Effects of Size Dependent Childcare Policies, with Diego Escobar, Jeanne Lafortune and Jose Tessada. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 160, March 2024.
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The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 Across Countries. Medical Research Archives, v. 11, n. 6, June 2023.
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Mobility During COVID-19 by Demographics, with John Washburn.  Economics Bulletin, Volume 42, Issue 3, 2022.
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Property Rights, Expropriations, and Business Cycles in China, with Yin Germaschewski and Jay Horvath. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 125, April 2021.
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Do Non-Exporters Lose from Lower Trade Costs?, with Facundo Piguillem.  Review of International Economics, Vol. 29 (5), November 2021.
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International trade and productivity after apartheid. BE Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), Vol. 20 (2), 2020.​
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Bribes in the Business Cycle.  Review of Economics and Institutions, 2019, Vol 10, No 1.
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Barriers to Firm Growth in Open Economies, with Facundo Piguillem.  BE Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), Volume 19 (1), 2019.
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Mark-up Premia of Exporters: Because of, or In Spite of Exporting?, with Alex McQuoid. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(7), 2019.
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Productivity and Trade Liberalizations in Canada, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35 (2), 2015.
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Innovation and the Trade Elasticity, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 66, September 2014.       
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Firm Growth in Europe, The Fourth EFIGE Policy Report, joint with Klaus Desmet, Facundo Piguillem, and Aransazu Crespo, August 2012, Bruegel Blueprint 18.

Working Papers

Property Rights and Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Consumption Volatility, with Yin Germaschewski and Jay Horvath. Reject  and Resubmit, European Economic Review.
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Can Modern Theories of Structural Change Fit Business Cycle Data?, with Alessio Moro.​ Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.
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Exporters and Energy Efficiency: Evidence from Chilean Firms, with Ziba Karjoo.​ Submitted.  
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Gravity with Multiple Dependencies, with Burcu Eke Rubini. Submitted.
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Is Reducing Low-Skilled Immigration Good for Americans?, with Bikramjit Saha.​ Submitted.
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