Publications

The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 Across Countries. Accepted, Journal of the European Society of Medicine.
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Mobility During COVID-19 by Demographics, with John Washburn.  Accepted, Economics Bulletin.
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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

Can Modern Theories of Structural Change Fit Business Cycle Data?, with Alessio Moro.​ R&R, Quantitative Economics.
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Hide the Cookie Jar: Nudging Towards Healthy Eating, with Deniz Ozabaci. R&R, Journal of the Economic Science Association.
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Stochastic Structural Change, with Alessio Moro.​ 
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Resource Misallocation from Childcare Policies, with Diego Escobar, Jeanne Lafortune and Jose Tessada.
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Property Rights and Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Consumption Volatility, with Yin Germaschewski and Jay Horvath.
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Exporters and Energy Efficiency: Evidence from Chilean Firms, with Ziba Karjoo.
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Hidden Information as a Source of Misallocation: An Application to the Opioid Crisis, with Bayarmaa Dalkhjav.
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