Research Papers
Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition
-with Axelle Ferriere and Ricardo Reyes-Heroles. November 2023: Draft - Slides
Monetary Operating Procedures: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Analysis
-with Ricardo Lagos. October 2025 Draft - NBER working paper - conditionally accepted at Econometrica
Research in Progress
Cross-Sectional Labor Dynamics After a Foreign Shock
-with Rosario Aldunate, Andres Blanco, Andres Fernandez, and Mario Giarda.
The Unemployment Accelerator
-with Andres Blanco. March 2017: Draft -- Slides
Publications
Fiscal Management of Aggregate Demand: The Effectiveness of Labor Tax Credits
-with Axelle Ferriere. September 2025: IMF Economic Review --- link - Draft
Self-fulfilling Debt Crises with Long-Stagnations
-with Joao Ayres, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles. June 2024: Journal of Political Economy --- link - Draft
The Heterogeneous Effects of Government Spending: It's all About Taxes
-with Axelle Ferriere. April 2024: Review of Economic Studies --- link - Draft
Sectoral Shocks, Reallocation, and Labor Market Policies
-with Joaquin Garcia-Cabo and Anna Lipinska. European Economic Review, July 2023--- link - Draft - Working Paper
On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity
-with Axelle Ferriere, Philipp Grübener, and Oliko Vardishvili. June 2023: JPE Macro --- link - Draft
Foreign Effects of Higher U.S. Interest Rates
-with Matteo Iacoviello. July 2019: Journal of International Money and Finance --- link -- Working Paper -- Slides
Bloomberg article
Sovereign Default: The Role of Expectations
-with Joao Ayres, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles. May 2018: Journal of Economic Theory --- link -- Working Paper -- Slides
The Argentine Economy After Two Centuries
-with Francisco Buera and Juan Pablo Nicolini. November 2011: Latin American Journal of Economics --- link