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].

• Skewed Technological Change and Relative Prices: Accounting for the Living Standards Puzzle during the British Industrial Revolution (With Dalia Gutierrez & Lucas Llach)

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

• To Win or to Profit: How Rivalry Affects Payoff Decisions in Interdependent Situations [With Jeff Thomas et al]

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)

Ensayos, Notas y Conferencias/ Essays, Notes and Conference Papers 

•  Migration, Occupational Choice and the Legacy of Animal Husbandry in the Pampas [With Federico Droller & Lucas Llach] (June 2022)

•  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]  (May 2021)

• 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)