Publications
Borrower leakage from costly screening: Evidence from SME lending in Peru, with I. Arraiz, M. Bruhn, B. Roth, C. Ruiz-Ortega. Journal of Development Economics, 153, 102719, 2021. [Working paper]
Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks, with C. Broccolini, G. Lotti, A. Maffioli, and A. Presbitero. The World Bank Economic Review, 35 (2), 521-543, 2021. [Working Paper]
Knowledge spillovers through labor mobility: An employer-employee analysis, with V. Castillo, L. Figal-Garone, A. Maffioli, and S. Rojo. Journal of Development Studies, 56, 469-488, 2020. [Working paper]
Do labor market regulations affect the link between innovation and employment? Evidence from Latin America, with L. Baensch, M. Lanzalot, and G. Lotti. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 19 (3), 2019. [Working Paper]
The impact of export restrictions on production: A synthetic controls approach, with E. Garcia Lembergman and M. Rossi, Economía, Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 18 (2), 147-173, 2018. [Working Paper]
Psychometrics as a tool to improve credit information, with I. Arraiz and M. Bruhn, The World Bank Economic Review, 30 (Supplement 1), S67-S76, 2017. Featured in The Economist
Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms, with J. J. Dolado and S. Ortigueira, SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 7, 421-459, 2016. Featured in The Economist.
Heterogeneous Productivity Shocks, Elasticity of Substitution and Aggregate Fluctuations, with A. Moro, Journal of Macroeconomics, 45, 45-53, 2015. [Working Paper]
Employment and Innovation: Firm level evidence from Argentina, with R. de Elejalde and D. Giuliodori, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 51 (1), 27-47, 2015. [Working Paper]
Partial credit guarantees and firm performance: Evidence from Colombia, with I. Arráiz and M. Melendez, Small Business Economics, 43 (3), 711-724, 2014.[Working Paper]
The effect of innovation policy on SMEs' employment and wages in Argentina, with V. Castillo, A. Maffioli, and S. Rojo, Small Business Economics, 42(2), 387-406, 2014. [Working Paper]
Does recession drive convergence in firms' productivity? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms, with A. Escribano, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 41 (3), 339-349, 2014. [Working Paper]
Supplier development programs and firm performance: Evidence from Chile, with I. Arráiz and F. Henríquez, Small Business Economics, 41(1), 277-293, 2013. [Working Paper]
Innovation and job creation in a dual labor market: Evidence from Spain, with D. Giuliodori, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 21 (8), 801-813, 2012. [Working Paper]
Books
The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs: Methods and Practices (with A. Maffioli and C. Pietrobelli, Eds). Inter-American Development Bank, 2016.
Book chapters
Desarrollo financiero, inversión y productividad (with L. Sanguino, M.L Lanzalot, y G. Lotti) Cap. 6 en M. Ruiz-Arranz y M.C. Deza Creciendo con productividad: Una agenda para la region andina, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Washington, DC, 2018.
Big questions about small firms (with P. Ibarraran and A. Maffioli) Ch 9 in Carmen Pages Ed. The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2010. [The Spanish version of the book can be downloaded from here.]
Working Papers
Building socioemotional skills by playing: Experimental evidence from Brazil, with V. Azevedo, M. Lanzalot, R. Paes de Barros, and P. Yañez-Pagans. July 2021.
Infrastructure investments and private sector catalyzation: The case of the Panama Canal expansion, with M. Lanzalot, A. Maffioli, and P. Yañez-Pagans. January 2019.
Work in Progress
The impact of guarantees on SMEs access to credit and employment.
The impact of reverse factoring on SMEs' growth.
Business cycle and trade finance, with C. Seri.
Promotion of water savings in Brazil through behavioural economics, with N. Chacon, C. Parilli, and C. Scartascini.
Competition and innovation.
Op-Eds
The liquid of life: Estimating the health impacts of water and sanitation services in Brazil, Negocios Sostenibles, April 5, 2023.
Can digital credit boost e-commerce among MSMEs?, Negocios sostenibles, BID Invest. June 23, 2021.
Impact evaluation of cluster development programmes, Vox EU, June 14, 2016.
Innovation policy spillover effects: The unacounted benefits, Impacto, March 26, 2014.
Is innovation a threat to employment in Latin America?, Impacto, March 4, 2014.
Are supplier development programs effective at improving firm performance?, Impacto, May 29, 2012.