Research

Published and forthcoming papers

• "A north-south model of  structural change and growth"  (link to journal) (WP version)

with John Leahy, and Linda Tesar (draft)

Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 133, 77-102, January 2023

Working papers

• "Dynamics of corporate credit markets, employment, and wages: Evidence from Colombia", February 2024.   (draft) 

with Christian Posso

• "Arepas are not tacos: On the labor markets of Latin America", May 2025.  (draft) 

with Cezar Santos and Alejandra Torres

• "What goes up together must not come down together: An analysis of services disinflation", July 2025.   (draft) 

with Dylan Moore and Eva Van Leemput

Work in progress

• "(Il)legal commodity booms: Not all commodities are the same"

with Pablo Cuba Borda

• "Credit Airlines: Financial Constraints, Modes of Export, and Comparative Advantage" 

with Luis Baldomero, Barthélémy Bonadio, Sara Echeverri, Christian Posso

Pre-doctoral publications

• "Does financial development promote innovation in developing economies? An empirical analysis"  (link to journal)

with Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza and Maria Camila Botero

Review of Development Economics, August 2017, 21(3), 475-496

• "Revisiting the effects of innovation on growth: a threshold analysis"  (link to journal)

with Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Fernando Rios-Avila

Applied Economics Letters, April 2015 , 22(18),1474-1479.