Papers/Research
Publications by field of study:
Economic History:
¿Fue la Argentina realmente rica? Una aproximación al debate desde el capital humano Boletín Del Instituto De Historia Argentina Y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, (58) (2023).
El desequilibrio genético argentino Boletín Del Instituto De Historia Argentina Y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, (58) (2023).
The Giant With Cloth Feet: Was Argentina Really Rich? Human Capital During The First Globalization in a Comparative Perspective [With Joaquin Ladeiux] Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (2020): Cobertura mediatica: 1) El Economista, 2) Maldita Suerte, 3) Revista Anfibia
Riche comme un argentin: Educational Inequality in belle époque Argentina [With Joaquin Ladeiux] Economic History Research (2020).
A Curse of the Cow? Ranching and Land Concentration in Buenos Aires During the First Globalization [With Federico Droller & Lucas Llach] Working Paper (updated: November 2023)
Skewed Technological Change and Relative Prices: Accounting for the Living Standards Puzzle during the British Industrial Revolution [With Dalia Gutierrez & Lucas Llach] Working Paper (updated: December 2023)
Models of Segregation/Social Structures/Evolutionary Games:
Schelling´s Revisited: Segregation Patterns Under Spatial Place Consideration [With Pinasco et al] Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2023).
Characterizing Segregation in the Schelling-Voter Model [With Pinasco et al] Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2017).
Schelling-Voter Model: An application to language competition [With JotaPe Pinasco et al] Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (2013). Media Coverage: La Nacion
The Leniency Game: A Prisoner’s Dilemma with Hierarchies [With JotaPe Pinasco et al] Working Paper
History of Economic Thought/Macroeconomics:
On Global Imbalances and International Monetary Policies Eastern Economic Journal (2018).
Processing Uncertainty: Evolving Beliefs, Fallible Theories, Rationalizations and the Origin of Macroeconomics Crises [With Daniel Heymann et al] Journal of Applied Economics (2017).
The Classics, Keynes and the Keynesians: A Unified Formalization [With Lucas Llach] Eastern Economic Journal (2017).
Can Argentina’s Experience Help Predict the Effects of a Potential Grexit? [With Sebastian Dullien et al] Intereconomics (2016).
A note on Price Assymetry Using a Monetary Model [With JotaPé Pinasco] Theoretical Economics Letters (2014).
A comment on the European Central Bank solution Vs. The Keynes Solution Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (2013).
Happiness Studies:
´ In Good Spirits´ and the Achievement of Material Satisfaction Evidence from Argentina [With Ricardo Crespo et al] Social Work and Social Sciences Review (2019).
Income, Sex, Pills and Relationships: An Empirical Study for Argentina [With Martin Tetaz] Handbook of Happiness Research in Latin America. Springer, (2016). 251-272. Media Coverage: 1) Clarin 2) El Pais (Uruguay) 3) El Tiempo 4) La Nacion 5) La Nacion (2) Note: This version replaces an old version "Twenty eight years of Argentina’s life satisfaction and happiness data interrogated" (December, 2012).
Understanding the Aggregate Effects of Criminal Prevention Policy: The Role of Relative Safety in Argentina [With Martin Tetaz et al] The Latin American and Iberian Journal of Law and Economics (2016): 2.
Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited – 1984–2012 [With Martin Tetaz & Miguel Braun] Global Handbook of Quality of Life. Springer, Dordrecht, (2015). 583-596. Media Coverage: 1) La Nacion 2) La Nacion (2) 3) La Nacion (3)
Undergoing Projects:
1. Migration, Occupational Choice and the Legacy of Animal Husbandry in the Pampas [With Federico Droller & Lucas Llach] PDF SOON
The Age of Mass Migration brought thousand of migrants every year to Argentina. Coming mostly from south--European countries, migrants settled and joined the labor market across counties in the fertile plains of the Pampas. In this article, we show two pieces of evidence, first we show that prior to the arrival of immigrants, land was already used for productive activities, ranching or agriculture being the main uses of land. Persistence in the use of land created differential labor opportunities in each county, and thus constrained the arrival and settlement of immigrants. In turn, immigrants' sorted themselves into different counties, taking advantage of their human capital, knowledge or skills and the labor opportunities. We argue the initial use of land and the allocation of human capital across the fertile plains had a profound effect over the short run occupational choice at the local level.
2. A Railway Junction in the Americas: Factor Endowments, Transport Costs and Divergence In the primary producing regions of the New World, 1850-1914 [With Lucas Llach]
The nineteenth century accounts for most of the divergence in per capita GDP in the Americas. Between around mid - century and 1914, some regions in the Americas , but not others, experienced outstanding rates of growth. Previous literature has stressed either colonial origins, terms of trade or institutional factors to explain the differential economic performance across the continent. We argue that the shock of the Transport Revolution – in particular, railways – was asymmetric and depended on the type of exports . Using data for the primary producing regions in the Americas, covering around 90 % of the continent's population, we show that economic performance was correlated to product bulkiness : regions exporting heavier products (as measured b y weight per unit of value ) took more advantage of the technological shock because the decline in transports was large r there. Regions specialized in mining or the high value/weight cash crops typical of the old colonial trade didn't benefit from the transport revolution and lagged behind the American Midwest, the Canadian prairies or the Argentine Pampas, where exports and per capita GDP were highest in the continent on the eve of World War I.
Ensayos, Notas y Conferencias/ Essays, Notes and Conference Papers
¬ To Win or to Profit: How Rivalry Affects Payoff Decisions in Interdependent Situations [With Jeff Thomas] [Available at SSRN]
¬ Prospect Insecurity: The Asymmetric Effect of Subjetive Insecurity on Neighborhood Quality of Life Joint with Martin Tetaz Prepared for The International Forum of Well-Being of Life & Development Policy in Guadalajara Mexico (October 2014). Here you will find a version in Spanish published in a chapter book of the book-conference: El bienestar subjetivo en América Latina
¬ Inconsistent Expectations and Economic Crises Joint with Daniel Heymann and Ricardo Crespo and prepared for CIECE & Filosofía de la Economia (2013)
¬ Una evaluación de la crisis Europea: Europa en su laberinto [SPANISH] Junto a José Luis Machinea en Palermo Business Review (2011) Nota: Se pueden encontrar versiones más resumidas de este trabajo en La solución Argentina publicado en el blog Nada es Gratis (Mayo 2012) y en La crisis Europea blog Colectivo Económico (Julio 2011).
¬ ¿Es la deflación la cura Europea? [SPANISH] prepared for Alquimias Económicas (Noviembre 2014)
¬ A Theory of Kinked Demand Curve: Dynamic Game Theory and Price Rigidity Anales de la Asociación Argentina de Economía Política (November 2010)