FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Applied Economics, Growth and Development, Inequality, International Trade, Health Economics, Macroeconomics.
PUBLICATIONS
Macro-Finance / Development
Brambila-Macias J., Murinde V. and Massa I. (2011) "Cross-border bank lending versus FDI in Africa. A growth story", Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 21(16), pp. 1205-1213.
Brambila-Macias J., and Massa I. (2011), "Finance-Growth Nexus: Evidence from a Top Global Reformer", Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 21(8), pp. 529-544 .
Brambila-Macias, J. and Massa, I. (2010), The Global Financial Crisis and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effects of Slowing Private Capital Inflows on Growth. African Development Review, Vol. 22, pp. 366-377.
Brambila-Macias J., and Cazzavillan G. (2010), "Modeling the Informal Economy in Mexico. A Structural Equation Approach", The Journal of Developing Areas Vol. 44, pp. 345-365.
Brambila-Macias J., and Cazzavillan G. (2009), "The Dynamics of Parallel Economies. Measuring the Informal Sector in Mexico", Research in Economics, Vol. 63, pp. 189-199.
Brambila-Macias J., Meredith G., and Vladkova I. (2007), "Economic Growth and Integration in Central America", International Monetary Fund Occasional Paper No. 257, pp. 8-20.
Health Economics / Agriculture
Caracciolo F., Depalo D., and Brambila-Macias J. (2014) "Food Price Changes and Poverty in Zambia: An Empirical Assessment using Household Microdata", Journal of International Development, Vol. 26, pp 492-507.
Shankar, B., Brambila-Macias J., Mazzocchi M,. Capacci, S. and Traill B.(2013) “An Evaluation of the UK Food Standards Agency's Salt Campaign", Health Economics, Vol 22, pp. 243-250.
Mazzocchi, S. Capacci ,Brambila-Macias J., W. B. Traill, B. Shankar, T. Bech-Larsen, J. Aschemann-Witzel, M. Strand, M., W. Verbeke, F. J. A. Perez-Cueto, D. D'Addesa, A. Saba, A. Turrini, B. Niedźwiedzka, A. Kozioł-Kozakowska, V. Kijowska, B. Piórecka, M. Infantes, J. Wills, L. Smillie, F. Chalot and D. Lyle. (2012) "Policies to promote healthy eating in Europe: A structured review of instruments and their effectiveness", Nutrition Reviews, Vol. 70(3), pp. 188-200.
Federico JA Pérez-Cueto, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel, Bhavani Shankar, José Brambila-Macias, Tino Bech-Larsen, Mario Mazzocchi, Sara Capacci, Anna Saba, Aida Turrini, Barbara Niedzwiedzka, Beata Piorecka, Agniezska Kozioł-Kozakowska, Josephine Wills, W Bruce Traill and Wim Verbeke. (2011) "Assessment of evaluations made to healthy eating policies in Europe: a review within the EATWELL Project", Public Health Nutrition, doi:10.1017/S1368980011003107
Brambila-Macias J., W. B. Traill, B. Shankar, M. Mazzocchi, S. Capacci, W. Verbeke, and F. J. A. Perez-Cueto (2011) "Policy Interventions to promote healthy eating: What works, what does not and what is promising: A review", Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 32(4), pp. 365-375.
W. B. Traill, B. Shankar, Brambila-Macias J., T. Bech-Larsen, J. Aschemann-Witzel, M. Strand, M. Mazzocchi, S. Capacci, W. Verbeke, F. J. A. Perez-Cueto, D. D'Addesa, A. Saba, A. Turrini, B. Niedźwiedzka, A. Kozioł-Kozakowska, V. Kijowska, B. Piórecka, M. Infantes, J. Wills, L. Smillie, F. Chalot and D. Lyle.(2010) "Interventions to promote healthy eating habits: evaluation and recommendations", Obesity Reviews, Vol 11 (12), pp. 895-898
W. B. Traill , F.J.A. Pérez-Cueto, B. Shankar, J. Brambila-Macias, et al. (2010) "EATWELL Project: Approaching European healthy eating policies from a multi-disciplinary perspective", Nutricion Hospitalaria, Vol. 25(5), pp. 867-868
Book Chapters
Aid, Trade, and Financial Crises: A Developing Country Perspective (with I. Massa and M. Salois) in "Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid", Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
Global Governance issues and the current crisis (with Isabella Massa), in “The Companion to Development Studies”, Third Edition, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Working Papers
Brambila-Macias J., Massa I., and Salois M. (2010) “The Impact of Financial Crises on Trade Flows: A Developing Country Perspective” mimeo. (submitted)
Brambila-Macias J. and Massa I. “The global financial crisis and sub-Saharan Africa. The effects of slowing private capital flows on growth”, Overseas Development Institute Working Papers 304, June 2009.
Brambila-Macias J. (2008), “Remittances, Migration and Informality. A simple Model”, Munich Personal RePEc Archive-MPRA Paper No. 8373, March.
Work in progress
"Currency Wars, who wins, who loses and who pays"
"China-Africa Nexus, the role of institutions, resources and democracy" (with G. Zanello)
“External Debt and Food Imports in Africa. A Panel Cointegration Approach” (with D. Depalo and G. Rapsomanikis)
“Inequality in Guatemala: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach” (with D. Depalo)