Research
My areas of interest are:
Economic growth and fiscal policy.
Time series analysis in large data set (filtering methods).
Applied econometrics
Refereed published papers:
Competition and Productivity: Evidence from Peruvian Municipalities, with Marc Schiffbauer, and Javier Coronado . The Review of Economics and Statistics 2022; forthcoming (2024).
Featured at VoxDev: Removing local barriers to entry can boost productivity growth: Evidence from Peru, January 2023.
Additive growth? Not always, Economics Letters, vol. 235, Feb. 2024.
Working papers:
2023: "Does trade integration imply growth in Latin America? Evidence from a dynamic spatial spillover model" , with S.J. Koopman, F. Blasques and P. Gorgi.
2021: "Identification Properties for Estimating the Impact of Regulation on Markups and Productivity", with C. Jooste and E. Vostroknutova.
Dormant Working papers:
2022: "Pollution and Labor Productivity : Evidence from Chilean Cities ", with C. Jooste, T. Loch-Temzelides and H. Dudu.
2022: "Debt Vulnerability Analysis : A Multi-Angle Approach", with D. Doemeland, M. Estevao, C. Jooste and V. Tsiropoulos.
2020: "Nowcasting Economic Activity in Times of COVID-19 : An Approximation from the Google Community Mobility Report", with C. Jooste
2016: "High Dimensional Dynamic Factor Models: an Empirical Bayes Approach"