WORK IN PROGRESS
"Good News Travels Fast: Global Demand Shocks, Oil Futures, and Emerging Markets Dynamics" with Felipe Beltran, Manuel Escobar and Felipe Rojas. 2025.
PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed)
"Monetary Policy Surprises on the Banking Sector: the Role of the Information and Pure Monetary Shocks" Coauthored with Felipe Beltrán. Latin American Journal of Central Banking. Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2024. [Link to paper]
"Forecasting Building Permits with Google Trends" with Pablo Pincheira. Empirical Economics 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-020-02011-1
"The Labor Wedge and Business Cycles in Chile." Coauthored with Sebastián Faúndez. Journal Economía Chilena 19, no. 1 April (2016) [Link to paper]
"The Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Channels in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies: The Cases of Chile, New Zealand, Peru and Uruguay." Coauthored with Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea. Journal Economía Chilena 16, no. 1 April (2013). (In Spanish). [Link to paper]
"The Impact of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills on Professional Salaries in an Emerging Economy, Chile." Coauthored with Joseph Ramos, Ricardo Elfernan and Claudia Soto. The Developing Economies, 51(1), 1-33. (2013). [Link to paper]
BOOK
“Investment Aftercare Explained: A Guide for FDI Practitioners and Policymakers on How to Grow and Retain Investors” (with Carolina Arriagada, Brendan Lewis and Toby Li). November, 2021. Publisher: Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. London, UK. [Link to book]
BOOK CHAPTER
"Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Channels in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies." Coauthored with Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea, in Gelos G., and Werner A. (eds.). Managing Volatility Capital Flows, Terms of Trade and Macroeconomic Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Monetary Fund (2014). [Link to paper]
POLICY CONTRIBUTIONS AND NOTES
"Burkina Faso: Second Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement and Financing Assurances Review" IMF Staff Report. April 2025. [Link to paper]
"The Counter-Cyclycal Buffer: A Policy Perspective" (In Spanish). Economic Policy Document. March 2023. Central Bank of Chile. [Link to paper]
"Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies during the Covid-19 crisis". (In Spanish). Monetary Policy Report September 2021, Central Bank of Chile. [Link to paper]
"Estimation of Structural Parameters for the Chilean Economy". (In Spanish). Monetary Policy Report June 2021, Central Bank of Chile. [Link to paper]
"Use of Macroeconomic Models in the Central Bank of Chile". (In Spanish). December 2020, Central Bank of Chile. [Link to paper]
Teaching Notes for Macroeconomics I (In Spanish): "Macroeconomia I: Material de Estudio". July 2008, Department of Economics, University of Chile. Coauthored with Sebastian Bustos and Oscar Landerretche M. [Link to paper]
WORKING PAPERS
"Heterogeneous Impacts of Commodity Price Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence and Theory for the Chilean Mining Sector" Coauthored with José Valenzuela. Working Paper Series, Central Bank of Chile. June 2023. [Link to paper]
"Multimarket Contact in Banking Competition in The United States". Working Paper Series, Central Bank of Chile. December 2019. [Link to paper]
"The Labor Wedge: New Facts Based on US Microdata." Working Paper Series, Central Bank of Chile. February 2015. [Link to paper]