Research Papers

In this page you will find links to published, forthcoming and working papers organized by different themes.


Published Research

Monetary Models and Optimal Policies

"Search-Theoretic Money, Capital and International Exchange Rate Fluctuations," International Economic Review, Forthcoming. With T. Kam, & J. Lee, Junsang

Optimal Monetary Policy in a Model of Money and Credit, Journal Money, Credit and Banking, Forthcoming. With D Sanches.

"Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policies In a Search-theoretic Model of Money and Unemployment"  Macroeconomic Dynamics, Forthcoming. With B. Julien and C. Wang.


"Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Search Theoretic Model of Monetary Exchange" European Economic Review, (2010) with A. Peralta-Alva.


Monetary Models with Financial Intermediation

"Market Structure and the Banking Sector"; Economics Bulletin (2007); with B. Julien.

"The Seasonality of Banking Failures During the Late National Banking Era"; Canadian Journal of Economics (2006); with B. Smith.

"Seasonality And Monetary Policy"; Macroeconomic Dynamics (2003); with B. Smith.

"Multiple Reserve Requirements in a Monetary Growth Model"; Economic Theory (2002).

"When Should Monetary Policy Favor the Wealthy?"; Journal of Economic Theory (2001).

"Money, Banks and Endogenous Volatility"; Economic Theory (2000).


Monetary Economics and Non-trivial Dynamics

"A Geometric Description of a Macroeconomic Model with a Center Manifold" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2009); with A. Haro.

"Global Dynamics, Credit Rationing and Hyperinflations"(format pdf)( format ps ; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2007) with A. Haro.

"Global Dynamics in Macroeconomics: An Overlapping Generations Example"; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2003); with A. Haro.



Intertemporal Non-Seperable Preferences

"Consequences of Modeling Habit Persistence"; Macroeconomic Dynamics (2009); with L. Bossi.

"Deficit Financing in Overlapping Generation Economies with Habit Persistence"; Economics Bulletin (2006); with L. Bossi.


Applied Macroeconomics

"Dollar Denominated Accounts in Latin America During the 1990s"; Journal of Economics and Finance (2005); with C. Serrano and A. Somuano.


Health Economics

"A Note on Income Heterogeneity, Dietary Choice and Medical Services: Implications for Health Outcomes" Economics Bulletin (2011) with J. Lee



Unpublished Research


Revise and Resubmit

"Optimal Second Best Taxation of Addictive Goods"  Journal of Public Economic Theory, with L. Bossi and D. Kelly.


Under Review

"The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
", with O. Mitnik, A. Peralta-Alva  and  M. Schmeiser

"Oil Price Dynamics in a Real Business Cycle Model
"; with V. Arora.

"Testing for Explosive Behaviour in Relative Inflation Measures: Implications for Monetary Policy," with V. Arora and S. Ping.


Working Papers

"Pricing, Advertising, and Market Structure with Frictions" with B. Julien and C. Wang.

"Quantifying the Shadow Economy: Measurement with Theory"; with A. Peralta-Alva and C. Waller.

"Fiscal Policy with Intertemporally Non-Separable Preferences". with L. Bossi.

"Adopting New Technologies in the Classroom", with J. Rodrigues-Neto