Research
Journal articles
Uneven product diversification: explaining the lag of agricultural economies
International Economic Review
RIEF Prize,
RoWE Prize.
Code.
Appendix
The long-term impact of trade with firm heterogeneity
Review of World Economics
Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms revisited
Journal of International Economics
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Working papers
When immigrants meet exporters: A reassessment of the immigrant wage gap
With
Léa Marchal
and
Giulia Sabbadini.
[Cond. Accepted] European Economic Review
Previous WP with French data
Geographic concentration of imports and economic vulnerability of countries
With
Florian Mayneris.
Gravity and the organization of firm-to-firm production networks
With
Gustavo González
and
Luca Macedoni.
Work in progress
Bend without breaking: The power of economic flexibility in development.
With
Karsten Mau.
Trade and Growth Over the Life Cycle.
With Wietse Mesman and
Has van Vlokhoven.
Pre-PhD publications
Can the Method of Reflections help predict future growth? IRES Discussion Papers, DP 2013-8, 2013.
The Method of Reflections is a relatively simple way to measure economic complexity by using network analysis. The tools it provides can be very handy when designing industrial policies. This paper analyses the properties of the MR and evaluates the circumstances under which the resulting measures are good predictors of future economic growth. It also highlights the contexts on which these tools could be misleading.
Redistribution, Insurance and Incentives to Work in Latin American Pension Programs (with Álvaro Forteza), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Volume 11, February 2012, Issue 03, pp. 337–364.
How much do Latin American pension programs promise to pay back? (with Álvaro Forteza), World Bank SP Discussion Papers NO.0927, 2009.
Pension Systems in Latin America: Concepts and Measurements of Coverage (with Rafael Rofman and Leonardo Lucchetti), World Bank SP Discussion Papers NO.0616, 2008.