Working Papers
Afectaciones del Covid-19 en Agricultores del Altiplano Boliviano, Development Research Working Paper Series 04/2022, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2022.
Promoción del Ahorro y Ahorro Previsional Voluntario: Revisión de la Literatura, Development Research Working Paper Series 02/2022, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2022.
Covid-19 in Bolivia: On the path to recovering development (with Milenka Figueroa), PNUD LAC PDS No.22, UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean, 2020.
Exchange rate policy in a dollarized economy: Implications on growth and employment in Bolivia (with Martín Cicowiez, Beatriz Muriel, Alejandro Herrera y Alejandra Goytia), Working Paper MPIA 2020-08, PEP-MPIA, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3631405
El Progreso Social en Bolivia, Un Análisis Departamental (with Juan Cristobal Birbuet and Luis Serrudo), Development Research Working Paper Series 04/2019, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2019.
The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960–2017 (with Timothy Kehoe y José Peres-Cajías) NBER Working Paper No 25523, February 2019.
De las Causas Próximas a las Causas Profundas del Crecimiento Económico de Bolivia entre 1950–2015, Development Research Working Paper Series 09/2018, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2018.
Fortalecimiento institucional y expansión del crédito mediante el uso de TICs en Entidades Financieras Comunales en Bolivia (con Boris Branisa y Mario Arduz), Development Research Working Paper Series 02/2018, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2018.
Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments (with Monica Yáñez and Alberto Chong) IZA Discussion Papers 7975, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2403112
Employment and Labor Regulation: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Bolivia, 1988-2007 (with Beatriz Muriel), CEDLAS Working Paper Series No 157, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2014
Effects of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on the Bolivian Economy: A CGE Approach (with Martin Cicowiez), CEDLAS Working Paper Series No 115, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2011.
Is Fiscal Policy Alone Enough for Growth? A Simulation Analysis for Bolivia (with Paul Estrada and Ximena Flores), Working Papers MPIA 2011-10, PEP-MPIA, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1858722
Aporte de los Servicios Ecosistémicos Silvícolas a la Economía Boliviana (with Beatriz Muriel and Luis Carlos Jemio), Development Research Working Paper Series 12/2010, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2010.
Understanding Productivity Levels, Dispersion and Growth in the Leather Shoe Industry: Effects of Size and Informality (with Juan Cristobal Birbuet), Development Research Working Paper Series 08/2009, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2009.
Technological Progress and Productivity in the Quinoa Sector (with Juan Cristobal Birbuet), Development Research Working Paper Series 07/2009, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2009.
La Enseñanza de Economía en Bolivia y Chile (with Lourdes Espinoza and Katia Makhlouf), Research Department Working Paper 673, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, D.C., 2009.
Growth and Banking Structure in a Partially Dollarized Economy, Development Research Working Paper Series 02/2007, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2007.
Welfare Gains from Optimal Policies in a Partially Dollarized Economy, Development Research Working Paper Series 10/2006, INESAD, La Paz – Bolivia, 2006
La dolarización y el déficit fiscal en Bolivia Documento de Trabajo 04/97 IISEC, Bolivian Catholic University, La Paz – Bolivia, 1997
Publications
Ciclos económicos y vulnerabilidad externa en América Latina (with Luis Carlos Jemio and Jaime Coronado), Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (CEMLA), number 4s. (2018).
Productivity, Structural Change and Latin American Development (with Antonio Saravia and Felix Rioja), Review of Development Economics, Vol.18 (3), pp. 610-624, (August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12106
Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia (with Monica Yáñez), World Development, Vol. 59, pp. 394-407, (July 2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.02.004
Empleo y Regulación Laboral: Análisis Empírico de las Firmas Manufactureras Bolivianas, 1988-2007 (with Beatriz Muriel), Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico, Núm. 21, pp. 9-60. IISEC-Bolivia. (May 2014). https://doi.org/10.35319/lajed.20142194
Impacto de las microfinanzas en el crecimiento económico de Bolivia, Análisis macro y micro, Documento de Investigación DI·2. ASOFIN-Bolivia. (April, 2013).
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: a simulation analysis for Bolivia (with Paul Estrada) Revista Analítika, Vol. 4, pp. 53-78. INEC-Ecuador, (2012).
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in Bolivia during the Market Liberalization Period (with Juan Cristobal Birbuet), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol.12: Iss.1 (Topics), Article 18 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1515/1935-1690.2304
Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Public Infrastructure in Five Latin American Countries Revista Perspectivas, Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 9-30, (June 2008), CAF.
Liquidity shocks and the dollarization of a banking system Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 30(1), pp. 369-381 (March 2008). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.02.004
Books and chapters in books
The Case of Bolivia in A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960–2017. Timothy J. Kehoe y Juan Pablo Nicolini editors. University of Minnesota Press, 2021 (with Timothy J. Kehoe and José Peres-Cajías)
Cambio tecnológico y calidad del crecimiento. In Evaluación de la calidad del crecimiento en Bolivia. Beatriz Muriel e Iván Velásquez coordinators, Fundación Konrad Adenauer, La Paz – Bolivia, 2020.
Capital humano y crecimiento: el impulso de la Revolución Nacional boliviana. Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS), La Paz – Bolivia, 2020.
Un Índice Municipal de Capital Humano. In Atlas Municipal de los Objetivos del Desarrollo Sostenible en Bolivia 2020. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Bolivia) (joint with Juan Cristobal Birbuet).
Estado del crecimiento económico sustentable. In Evaluación de la economía y del desarrollo en Bolivia. Avances, retrocesos y perspectivas. Beatriz Muriel and Iván Velásquez coordinators, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, La Paz – Bolivia, 2019.
Crimen (C), Capital Físico (K), Remesas (R). Chapters in the book El ABC del Desarrollo en Bolivia, Lykke Andersen, Boris Branisa y Stefano Canelas editors, INESAD Foundation, La Paz – Bolivia, 2016.
La economía del cambio climático en Bolivia: impactos en hidroenergía, part of the series “La economía del cambio climático en Bolivia” of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in the framework of the Regional Studies of the Economy of Climate Change (ERECC) in Latin America and the Caribbean, coordinated by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) and with the support of UKAID, 2014.
Effect of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on the Bolivian Economy: A CGE Approach, in Monitoring and Mitigating the Impact on Poverty of the Global Financial Crisis, PEP-CBMS Network Office and De La Salle University, Philippines, 2013 (with Martín Cicowiez).
Determinantes del Crecimiento Económico Nacional en el Largo Plazo in the book Factores que Inciden en el Crecimiento y el Desarrollo en Bolivia, Carlos Gustavo Machicado (coordinator), Fundación PIEB and Plural Editors, 2012, La Paz – Bolivia.
Las Características y la Evolución de la Productividad en Bolivia in Debate sobre Desarrollo e Inserción Internacional, Alfredo Seoane and Elizabeth Jimenez (coordinators), CIDES-UMSA and OXFAM, 2009, La Paz-Bolivia.
Privatization and Firm Performance in Bolivia, in Privatization in Latin America: Myths and Realities, Chong, A. and F. Lopez-De-Silanes (eds.), Stanford University Press, 2005 (with Katherina Capra, Alberto Chong, Mauricio Garrón and Francisco López-de-Silanes).