Nicolás de Roux

PhD, Columbia University

Associate ProfessorDepartment of EconomicsUniversidad de los Andes, Colombia
I am an applied microeconomist working on topics in development economics. My current research focuses on production in developing countries, with an emphasis on firm behavior, financial inclusion, agriculture, and labor markets
I co-organize the biweekly Virtual Development Seminar (VDEV/CEPR/BREAD) with Jenny Aker, Garance Genicot, Suanna Oh, Nishith Prakash, and Anthony Wambugu
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Contact Information

Calle 19A No 1-37 Este, W 808, BogotáEmail: nicolas.de.roux [at] uniandes [dot] edu [dot] coTwitter: @nico_de_roux

Working Papers

Quality Upgrading in Global Supply Chains: Evidence from Colombian Coffee

With Mario Bernasconi, Patrick Farrell, Rocco Macchiavello, Pepita Miquel-Florensa, and Eric Verhoogen. December 2025. Working paper series: CEDE 2026-7, CEPR 20981, IZA 18335, NBER 34610, RFBerlin 16725. Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity

With Julián Arteaga, Margarita Gáfaro, Ana María Ibáñez, and Heitor Pellegrina. December 2025. Working paper series: Borradores de Economía 1305, CEDE 2025-5, IDB 1789.

Trade Collapse and the Performance of Exporting Firms

With Luis R. Martínez, Camilo Tovar, and Jorge Tovar. October 2025. Working paper series: CEDE 2025-34.

Labor Market Power and Self-Employment Around the World

With Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, Peter Brummund, and Michele Di Maio. August 2025. Working paper series: CEDE 2024-08, CEPR 18828, IZA 16823, RFBerlin 6625. Revise and Resubmit, The Economic Journal.

Perceived Social Acceptance and Migrants' Financial Inclusion

With Giorgia Barboni and Santiago Perez-Cardona. December 2024. Working paper series: CAGE 745, CEDE 2024-48.

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

With Marcela Eslava, Santiago Franco, and Eric Verhoogen. October 2024. Appendix. Supplementary materials. Working paper series: NBER 28323. Previous versions: CEDE 2021-02, CDEP-CGEG 90, IZA 14006. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association.

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

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

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

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

Published Articles in Journals

Labor Market Institutions and Wage-Setting Power: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

With Francesco Amodio, Emanuele Brancati, and Michele Di Maio. August 2025. Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources. Working paper version: CEDE 2025-26.

Behavioral Messages and Debt Repayment

With Giorgia Barboni and Juan Camilo Cárdenas. March 2023. Forthcoming, Review of Finance. Working paper version: CAGE 633.

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

With Francesco Amodio. Journal of Labor Economics, v.42, no. 4, pp. 949–977, October 2024. Appendix. Working paper version: IZA 14390.

Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behavior: Evidence from Colombia

With Nicola Limodio. The Review of Financial Studies, v.36, no. 7, pp. 2721–2755, July 2023. Appendix. Working paper version: CEDE No. 2021-22.

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

With Evan Riehl. Journal of Public Economics, v.210, June 2022. Appendix. Working paper version: CEDE 2019-34.

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

With Evan Riehl. Journal of Development Economics, v.156, May 2022. Appendix. Working paper version: CEDE 2020-37.

Sacrifice Ratios and Inflation Targeting: The Role of Credibility

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

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

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

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

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 Frictions in Rural Credit Markets"

With Zach Brown and Margarita Gáfaro.

Other Publications

Financiación no Bancaria y Casas de Agroinsumos en Colombia

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

Media

"Is quality upgrading in agriculture a path to poverty reduction?" VoxDev, February 2023, with Mario Bernasconi, Patrick Farrell, Rocco Macchiavello, Pepita Miquel-Florensa, and Eric Verhoogen.

"Lecciones de los exportadores colombianos frente al colapso del comercio con Venezuela ". Voces, diciembre 2025.

"Featured Economist Interview, International Economic Association (IEA) ". July 2025.

"How will climate change shape land markets and farm sizes in the developing world?" VoxDev, June 2025, with Julián Arteaga, Margarita Gáfaro, and Heitor Pellegrina.

"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

Econometría 1, 2026-1. Ver Bloque Neón.
Haciendo Economía 1, 2026-1. Ver Bloque Neón.

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