I am an economist working on applied international macroeconomics, development macroeconomics and the economics of natural resources. My research studies how the real exchange rate and external shocks shape trade and the structure of production in developing economies, why stabilization programs in chronic-inflation countries succeed or fail, and how the mineral demand of the energy transition translates into territorial conflict or cooperation in mining regions. I combine applied econometrics with original databases built from product-level trade data, text-as-data and spatial methods.

I am Assistant Professor (Profesor Ayudante Doctor) and Deputy Director of the Department of Economics at the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH). Previously, I was Senior Researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, 2023–2025) and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (2021-2023). I hold a joint PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad de Alcalá (2022).

What's new?

Stabilization programs in chronic-inflation countries: Evidence from Latin America. With Martín Rapetti and Joaquín Waldman (Spanish version). Oxford Development Studies 53(4): 407-441 (2025).

From dominance to dependence: what the UK must learn to build trusted critical minerals partnerships. With Anabel Marin. CITP Briefing Paper 28, Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (December 2025).

The cost of clean cars: Mapping mining harms in Europe's EV supply chains. TNI Report, Transnational Institute (July 2025). With J. Baines, S. Rolf, J. Germann, L. Bárcena, M. Barbesgaard, C. Trujillo, J. Sydow and A. Marin.

Civic power in mining conflicts: Barrier or catalyst for a just energy transition? With Anabel Marin. Environmental Research Letters 20(5): 054030 (2025), open access. Also CITP Working Paper 021.

Real Exchange Rate and Import Substitution Episodes: Evidence from a Developing Economy. World Development, 184, 106752.

The Real Exchange Rate Role in a Resource-rich Developing Country: Heterogeneous Effects, Structural Bias and Hysteresis. Ensayos Económicos, no. 83 (May), pp. 51–69.

Real exchange rate and export surge episodes: What sectors take advantage of the real exchange rate stimulus? In Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (SCED) 68: 446-467 (2024).

From macro to micro and macro back: macroeconomic trade elasticities in a developing economy. In Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (SCED). With Martín Rapetti.

El potencial exportador verde de la Argentina: un análisis del espacio producto verde. With M. Feole, M. Gutman and S. Bercovich. Desarrollo Económico (in Spanish).

In the media

Op-eds, interviews and talks (in Spanish): see the Media page 

e-mail: gabriel.palazzo@uah.es  / gabrielmpalazzo@gmail.com 

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