Working Papers and Work in Progress


Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, and Guido Porto, "Organizational Hierarchies and Export Destinations," April 2022

Albornoz, Facundo, Irene Brambilla, and Emanuel Ornelas, "The Impact of Tariff Hikes on Firm Exports ," July 2021

Brambilla, Irene,  Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, and Leonardo Gasparini, "Automation Trends and Labor Markets in Latin America," July 2021

Brambilla, Irene, and Andres Cesar, "Import Price and Quality Adjustment after Exchange Rate Shocks," October 2018

Balat, Jorge, Irene Brambilla and Yuya Sasaki, “Heterogeneous Firms: Skilled-Labor Productivity and Export Destinations,” July 2015


Publications in Journals

Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, and Leonardo Gasparini, "The Impact of Robots in Latin America: Evidence from Local Labor Markets", World DevelopmentVol. 170, October 2023

Artuc, Erhan, Irene Brambilla, and Guido Porto, "Patterns of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility," Economic Journal, 2022, Vol. 132, Issue 646, pp. 2048--2074

Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone and Leonardo Gasparini, "Automation and the jobs of young workers", Latin American Economic Review, Vol. 41, Issue 4, 2022 

Brambilla, Irene, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto, "Exporting Firms and the Demand for Skilled Tasks," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2019, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp.763--783

Brambilla, Irene, Sebastián Galiani, and Guido Porto, "Argentine Trade Policies in the XX Century: 60 Years of Solitude,"  Latin American Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 27, Issue 4

Brambilla, Irene, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto "Exporters, Engineers, and Blue Collar Workers," World Bank Economic Review, March 2017, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 126-136 

Brambilla, Irene, Nicolas Depetris and Guido Porto "Examining the Export Wage Premia in Developing Countries ," Review of International Economics, May 2016, Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp.447-475. 

Brambilla, Irene, and Guido Porto, "High-Income Export Destinations, Quality and Wages ," Journal of International Economics, January 2016, Vol. 98, January 2016, pp.21-35.

Brambilla, Irene, Daniel Lederman, and Guido Porto, "Exports, Export Destinations and Skills," American Economic Review, December 2012, Vol. 102, No. 7, pp. 3406-3438. On-line Appendix

Reprinted in Goldberg, P. (Ed.), Trade and Inequality, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Brambilla, Irene, Rafael Carneiro, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto, "Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers," World Bank Economic Review, 2012, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 34-60 . On-line Appendix

Brambilla, Irene, Guido Porto, and Alessandro Tarozzi, "Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2012, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 304-319

Brambilla, Irene and Guido Porto, "Market Structure, Outgrower Contracts and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia," Oxford Economic Papers, 2011, Vol. 63, pp. 740-766

Brambilla, Irene, Galina Hale and Cheryl Long, "Foreign Direct Investment and the Incentives to Innovate and Imitate," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Special Issue on Heterogeneous Firms and International Trade, December 2009, Vol. 111, No. 4, pp. 835-861. 

Brambilla, Irene, "Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of Varieties of Goods," Journal of International Economics, September 2009, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pp. 89-101

Balat, Jorge, Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto, "Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty," Journal of International Economics, June 2009, Vol. 78, Issue 1, pp. 21-31. Working Paper version


Book Chapters

Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone and Leonardo Gasparini, "New Technologies and the Future of Jobs in Latin America," in  Albrieu, Ramiro ed., Cracking the Future of Work. Automation and Labor Platforms in the Global South, CIPPEC, 2021.

Brambilla, Irene, Amit Khandelwal, and Peter Schott, China's Experience under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)," in Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, eds., China's Growing Role in World Trade, University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2010 

Balat, Jorge, Irene Brambilla, and Guido Porto, "Zambia," in Bernard Hoekman and Marcelo Olarrega, eds., Global Trade and Poor Nations. The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization, Brookings Press, Washington DC, 2007


Publications in Spanish and Regional Journals

Brambilla Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, Carlo Lombardo and Leonardo Gasparini, "Routinization and employment: Evidence from Latin America," Desarrollo y Sociedad, 95(3), 2023.

Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, and Leonardo Gasparini, "Exploring gender differences in labor markets from the perspective of the task based approach", Estudios de EconomíaVol. 50, Issue 2, 2023

Bonavida, Cristian, Irene Brambilla and Leonardo Gasparini, "Automatización y Pandemia: Amenazas sobre el Empleo en América Latina," Revista de Análisis Económico, Vol. 37, Número 1, 2022

Brambilla, Irene, Andrés César, Guillermo Falcone, Leonardo Gasparini and Carlo Lombardo, "The asymmetric risks of automation in Latin America", Desarrollo Económico, Vol. 62, Issue 235, 2022

Brambilla, Irene, and Leonardo Peñaloza Pacheco, "Exportaciones, salarios, e innovación tecnológica. Evidencia para Argentina," Económica, Vol. 64, Nro.1, 2018.

Reimpreso en Resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Dinámica de Empleo e Innovación (ENDEI),  Ministerio de Trabajo y Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, 2017.

Brambilla, Irene, and Guido Porto, "Diagnóstico y visión de la inserción comercial argentina en el mundo," Desarrollo Económico, 2018

Albornoz, Facundo, Irene Brambilla, and Pablo Garriga, "Exportaciones de Argentina  y Brasil bajo el Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias," Ensayos Económicos, Vol. 74, pp.27-55, 2016.

Brambilla, Irene and Romina Tomé, "Imports and Welfare: Variety Losses of the Argentina Crises of 2001-2002," Económica, Vol. 60, 2014.


Other papers and publications

Brambilla, Irene, "A Customs Union with Multinational Firms: the Automobile Market in Argentina and Brazil," June 2007, NBER Working Paper 11745

Brambilla, Irene, "Complementary Reforms Needed for Poverty Reduction," ID21 Insights, Issue #59, December 2005