Working Papers

·         "Offshoring in a Ricardian World," December 2007 (first version, November 2006, submitted), Supplementary Appendix

·         "Trade Policy under Firm-Level Heterogeneity in a Small Economy," (with Svetlana Demidova), November 2007 (under 2nd round revision at the JIE)

·         "Trade, Diffusion, and the Gains from Openness," November 2007 (first version November 2006, submitted), MATLAB codes and data

·         "Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy," (with Ann Harrison) - chapter for the new Handbook of Economic Development (September 2007, preliminary version for comments)

In Progress

·         The Geography of Trade and Multinational Production (with Natalia Ramondo)

Publications

·         "Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade" (with Costas Arkolakis, Svetlana Demidova and Pete Klenow), forthcoming in the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2008, and also NBER Working Paper No. 13933.

·         "Innovation Shortfalls," (with William Maloney), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 11, No. 4, November 2007, pp. 665-684.

·         "A Political Economy Theory of Trade Agreements," (with Giovanni Maggi), American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, September 2007, pp. 1374-1406, and also NBER Working Paper No. 11716.

·         "Clusters and Comparative Advantage: Implications for Industrial Policy," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 82 (February 2007), pp. 43-57

·         "Coordination Failures, Clusters and Microeconomic Interventions," Economia (Journal of LACEA), Fall 2005, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-29

·         "Externalities and Growth," (with Pete Klenow) Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 1A, P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, eds., 2005, 817-861 (chapter 11), and also NBER Working Paper, No. 11009.

·         "Multinationals and Linkages: an Empirical Investigation," (with Laura Alfaro), Economia (Journal of LACEA), Spring 2004 (Volume 4, Number 2)

·         "Import Penetration and the Politics of Trade Protection," (with Giovanni Maggi), Journal of International Economics, vol. 51, pp. 287-304, August 2000.

·         "The Value of Free Trade Agreements in the Presence of Political Pressures," (with Giovanni Maggi), Journal of Political Economy, June 1998

·         "Economic Growth: A Review Essay," (with Pete Klenow) Journal of Monetary Economics, November 1997

·         "The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has It Gone Too Far?" (with Pete Klenow), 1997 NBER Macroeconomics Annual

·         "Multinationals, Linkages and Economic Development," American Economic Review, September 1996.

·         "The Division of Labor and Economic Development," Journal of Development Economics, June 1996.

·         "Costly Distortion of Information in Agency Problems," RAND Journal of Economics, (with Giovanni Maggi), winter 1995.

·         "On Countervailing Incentives," Journal of Economic Theory, (with Giovanni Maggi), July 1995.

·         “On Endogenizing Long-Run Growth," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (with Peter Hammond), vol. 95, 1993, No. 4.

 

Old Working Papers

·         "Import Tariffs, Export Subsidies, and the Theory of Trade Agreements," (with Giovanni Maggi), June 2005

·         "Quantifying Variety Gains from Trade Liberalization," September 1997 (with Pete Klenow)

Recent applied and policy-oriented papers

·         "Microeconomic Interventions after the Washington Consensus," August 2004

·         "Towards a Strategy for Economic Growth  in Uruguay," December 2004 (with Ricardo Hausman and Dani Rodrik)

·          “Intel: A Case Study of Foreign Direct Investment in Central America” (with Felipe Larraín and Luis F. López-Calva), in Economic Development in Central America, Volume I: Growth and Internationalization, Felipe Larrain B. (ed), Harvard University Press, 2001

·         "Costa Rica's Development Strategy based on Human Capital and Technology: how it got there, the impact of Intel, and lessons for other countries,” Journal of Human Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2001

·         "Innovation and Technology Adoption in Central America," February 2003

·         "Economic Growth in Costa Rica" (with Alberto Trejos and Manrique Sáenz), March 2002 - Published in Spanish in Pequeñas Economías, Grandes Desafíos, Manuel Agosín, Roberto Machado y Paulina Nazal (eds), Inter-American Development Bank, 2004

·         "Variaciones sobre un viejo tema: acceso de las PyMEs al crédito", in Ensayos en Honor a Eduardo Lizano Fait, edited by Grettel López and Reinaldo Herrera, Academia de Centroamérica, 2004

·         "El Papel del Estado en el Desarrollo Económico," published in Ensayos en honor a Claudio González-Vega, edited by Grettel López and Juan Carlos Obando, Academia de Centroamérica, 2003

IADB publications in which I collaborated