Guido Porto UNLP

Guido Porto
Professor of Economics
Universidad Nacional de La Plata



Contact Information
guido.porto@depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar
(or guido.g.porto@gmail.com)

Phone (Work):    +54 221 422 9383 

Address:

Calle 6 e/ 47 y 48
Piso 5 - Oficina 521
1900 La Plata, Argentina




Publications in Journals
 
Realizing the Gains From Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty, (with J. Balat and I. Brambilla). Forthcoming in the Journal of International Economics (pdf)
(This is the Working Paper version with the model and additional supporting material, NBER WP#13395 (pdf))

Trends in Tariff Reforms and Trends in the Structure of Wages, (with S. Galiani). Forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics (pdf)
 
International Market Access and Poverty in Argentina. Forthcoming in the Review of International Economics (pdf)
 
Agro-Manufactured Export Prices, Wages, and Unemployment, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 2008 (pdf) 

Globalization and Poverty in Latin America: Some Channels and Some Evidence, The World Economy, September 2007 (pdf)

Using Survey Data to Assess the Distributional Effects of Trade Policy, Journal of International Economics, July 2006 (pdf)

Informal Export Barriers and Poverty, Journal of International Economics, April 2005 (pdf)

Book Review: The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor,' Journal of Economic Literature, March 2008 (pdf)


Working Papers 

Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from US Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish, NBER WP #14495 (with I. Brambilla and A. Tarozzi) DC (pdf) (under revision)
 
Market Structure, Outgrower Contracts and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia (with I. Brambilla) (pdf) (under revision)
 
Estimating Household Responses to Trade Reforms. Net Consumers and Net Producers in Rural Mexico, Policy Research Working Paper No 3695, World Bank, Washington DC (pdf)
 
Burley Tobacco Clubs in Malawi : Nonmarket Institutions for Exports, (with M. Negri) Policy Research Working Paper No 4561 (pdf)
 
Returns to Skill, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Workers (with I. Brambilla, R. Dix Carneiro, and D. Lederman)
 
Skills, Exports and Export Destinations (with I. Brambilla and D. Lederman)


Chapter in Books
 
Argentine Trade Policies in the XX Century: 60 Years of Solitude, forthcoming in Argentine Exceptionalism, E. Glaeser and R. Di Tella (Eds), JFK Harvard University (with I. Brambilla and S. Galiani) (pdf)
 
Globalization and Complementary Policies, (with J. Balat), in Harrison A. (Ed.), Globalization and Poverty, University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2007 (pdf)

The WTO Doha Round, Cotton Sector Dynamics and Poverty Trends in Zambia, in T. Hertel and L. A. Winters, (Eds.), Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Round, Palgrave Macmillan, Washington DC, 2006 (pdf)

Zambia, (with J. Balat and I. Brambilla), in B. Hoekman and M. Olarreaga (Eds.), Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization, Brookings Press, Washington DC, 2007 (pdf)
 
 
 
Books & Awards 
 
Las Economías Regionales en Argentina, Premio Fulvio Salvador Pagani, Fundación Arcor 1995 (pdf)

Ahorro e Inversión en el Proceso de Crecimiento Económico, Premio ADEBA 1996

 

Research in Progress
  
Imperfect Competition in Export Crops: Poverty Impacts in Rural Zambia, in progress
 
Exporters in Developing Countries: Adjustment to Foreign Market Access after a Trade Policy Shock (with C. Bown)
 
Trade in Tasks
 
Wages and Employment with Capital Adjustment Costs
 
 
Courses 
 
 
 

Other Projects (updated)
 
 
Exports Value Chains and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa (soon)
 
 
 
 


 

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