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Working Papers

• "Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity"

[Abstract] With Julián Arteaga, Margarita Gáfaro, Ana María Ibáñez, and Heitor Pellegrina. January 2025.

• "Losing Venezuela: Trade Collapse and the Performance of Colombian Exporting Firms"

[Abstract] With Luis R. Martínez, Camilo Tovar, and Jorge Tovar. December 2024.

• "Perceived Social Acceptance and Migrants' Financial Inclusion"

[Abstract] With Giorgia Barboni and Santiago Perez-Cardona. December 2024. Working paper series:  CEDE 2024-48.

• "Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments"

[Abstract] With Marcela Eslava, Santiago Franco, and Eric Verhoogen.  October 2024. Appendix. Supplementary materials. Working paper series: NBER 28323. Previous versions: BREAD 583, CEDE  2021-02, CDEP-CGEG 90,  CEPR 15626, IZA 14006. 

• "Global Labor Market Power"

[Abstract]  With Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, and Michele Di Maio. July 2024. Working paper series: CEDE 2024-08. CEPR  18828, CReAM 0424, IZA  16823.

• "The Labor Market Power of Exporters: Evidence from 16 Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean"

[Abstract]  With Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, and Michele Di Maio. July 2024. Working paper series: IDB 1579. 

• "Uncertainty, Peace, and Investment: Evidence from Credit Microdata in Colombia"

[Abstract]  With Luis R. Martínez. December 2023. Previous versions: STEG 023, BFI 2021-36, CDEP-CGEG 94, CEDE 2021-22. Versión en español: CEDE 2021-22-esp.    

• "Behavioral Messages and Debt Repayment"

[Abstract] With Giorgia Barboni and Juan Camilo Cárdenas. March 2023. Working paper series:  CAGE 633. Previous versions: CEDE 2022-22, CDEP-CGED 101. Revise and Resubmit,  Review of Finance.

• "Exogenous Shocks, Credit Reports and Access to Credit: Evidence from Colombian Coffee Producers"

[Abstract] November 2021.  Working paper series:  CEDE 2021-57.  Versión en español: CEDE 2024-49-esp.

Published Articles in Journals

• "Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants"

[Abstract] With Francesco Amodio. Journal of Labor Economics, v.42, no.4 pp. 949–977, October 2024. Previous version:  CDEP-CGEG  95.

• "Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia"

[Abstract] With Nicola Limodio. The Review of Financial Studies, v.36, no.7 pp. 2721–2755, July 2023. Previous version: CEDE No. 2021-22.

• "Do college students benefit from placement into higher-achieving classes?"

[Abstract] With Evan Riehl.  Journal of Public Economics, v.210, June 2022.  Previous versions:  March 2022, CEDE 2019-34.

• "Disrupted Academic Careers: The Returns to Time Off after High School"

[Abstract] With Evan Riehl.  Journal of Development Economics, v.156, May 2022.  Previous version: CEDE 2020-37.

• "Sacrifice Ratios and Inflation Targeting: The Role of Credibility"

[Abstract] With Marc Hofstetter.  International Finance, v.17 no.3 pp.381-401, August 2014.

• "Do Preferences Shape Institutions? The Case of Inflation Aversion and Inflation Targeting"

[Abstract] With Marc Hofstetter. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, v.51 pp. 68-78, August 2014.

• "Is It My Money or Not? An Experiment on Risk Aversion and the House-Money Effect"

[Abstract] With Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Christian Jaramillo, and Luis R. Martínez. Experimental Economics, v.17 no.1 pp. 47-60, March 2014.

• "Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean"

[Abstract] With Laurence Ball and Marc Hofstetter. Open Economies Review, v.24 no.3 pp. 397-424, July 2013.

Published Articles in Books

• "Información Crediticia para la Formulación de Política Pública: El Caso del Banco Agrario y la Sustitución de Cultivos de Uso Ilícito"

[Abstract] Con Margarita Gáfaro, Moisés Mahecha, Guillermo Otero y Andrea Parejo. En Coca, Cocaína y Violencia. Hernando Zuleta (compilador).  Ediciones Uniandes, agosto 2022. También como Documento CEDE 2019-31. 

Selected Work in Progress

• "Internet Access and Banking Competition in Rural Credit Markets"

With Zach Brown and Margarita Gáfaro.

• "Markups and Quality: Evidence from Colombian Coffee Exports"

With  Rocco Macchiavello, Pepita Miquel-Florensa, and Eric Verhoogen.

Other Publications

• "Financiación no Bancaria y Casas de Agroinsumos en Colombia"

[Abstract] With Natalia Moreno, María del Pilar López-Uribe y Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer. Noviembre 2021.  Documento CEDE 2021-56. 

Media

• "How can behavioural messaging campaigns be tailored to reduce loan delinquency?"  VoxDev,  August 2022, with Giorgia Barboni, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, and Natalie Theys.

• "Mensajes comportamentales y repago de préstamos".  Foco Económico,  agosto 2022, con Giorgia Barboni y Juan Camilo Cárdenas. 

• "‘Tracking’ students can be beneficial, study finds".  Cornell Chronicle, August 2022.

• "Es mejor ser cabeza de ratón que cola de león".  La República,  agosto 2022, con Evan Riehl.  

• "Temperaturas extremas y fraccionamiento de tierras: la venta de propiedades rurales como una forma de suavizar el consumo". Foco Económico,  agosto 2022, por Margarita Gáfaro.  

• "Conflicto e inversión perdida". Foco Económico,  mayo 2022, con Luis Martínez. 

• "Time off after high school makes college less likely". Cornell Chronicle, March 2022. 

• "El salario mínimo en Colombia: nueva evidencia empírica sobre sus efectos y algunas consideraciones económicas y éticas". Foco Económico, julio 2021. 

• "Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behaviour: Evidence from Colombia". World Bank All About Finance Blog, May 2021, with Nicola Limodio. 

• "Forgone Investment: Civil Conflict and Agricultural Credit in Colombia".  Becker Friedman Institute Finding, May 2021, with Luis Martínez. 

Teaching 

• Introducción a la meditación: Notas. 

• Econometría 1, 2024-1. 

• Haciendo Economía 1, 2024-1.