Papers

Working Papers   

1. Quality, Vertical Integration and Adaptability (with Nicolás Depetris Chauvin, Marta Fernández Olmos and Santiago Mosquera), mimeo. January 2023.

2. Export Survival with Uncertainty about Foreign Markets (with Sebastián Fanelli). June 2018.

Journal Articles   

1. La necesidad de una orientación pro-exportadora de políticas en Argentina, Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, 26, 77-150, Junio 2023. 

2. Requisitos técnicos en los mercados de exportación y respuestas empresariales: los casos de arándanos y maquinaria agrícola en Argentina (with Andrea González, Gabriel Scattolo), Revista Económica La Plata, LXVIII, 32-74, Enero-Diciembre 2022.

3. The need for coordination to develop customized competitiveness in agrifood systems: lemon, pork, and dairy in Argentina (with Andrea González, Gabriel Scattolo and Andrés Tacsir), Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 750-767. August 2022.

4. Tracebility systems as a differentiation tool in agri-food value chains: a framework for public policies in Latin America (with Andrés Tacsir),  Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 673-688. August 2022.

5. Relational Links for Insertion in Non-mass Global Value Chains: Opportunities for Middle-Income Countries (with Andrea González), Review of International Economics, 30(2), pp. 653-672. May 2022.    

6. ¿Quién tracciona la estrategia sectorial para la inserción internacional? Desafíos de coordinación  post-COVID-19 en cadenas agroindustriales de América Latina (with Andrea González and Andrés Tacsir). Integracion y Comercio, 47, pp. 158-179. 

7. Inserción internacional y desarrollo productivo: modelos alternativos para la Argentina (with Anabel Marín). Desarrollo Económico, 58(225), pp. 207-212. Septiembre-Diciembre 2018 

8. Inserción internacional y desarrollo productivo: nuevos lineamientos de política (with Lautaro Chittaro). Boletín Techint, 356, pp. 89-104. Enero-Diciembre 2018.

9. The Micro-D Classification: A New Approach to Identifying Differentiated Exports (with Federico Bernini, Alejandro Vicondoa and Julia González). Economía, 18(2), pp. 59-85. Spring 2018.  Related files: Classification full description, Classification database

10. Construcción de capacidades estatales: Un análisis de políticas de promoción del diseño en Argentina (with Mariana Chudnovsky, Andrea González, Mercedes Sidders and Mariano Tommasi). Gestión y política pública, 27(1), pp. 79-110. June 2018

11. Survival in Export Markets (with Facundo Albornoz and Sebastián Fanelli). Journal of International Economics, 102, pp. 262-281, September 2016.  Related files: technical appendix 

12. Levantando el Velo Doméstico: El Desafío de Exportar Bienes Diferenciados a Países Desarrollados (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), Desarrollo Económico, 53(211), pp. 285-311. Enero-Abril 2014. 

13. Export Emergence of Differentiated Goods from Developing Countries: Export Pioneers and Business Practices in Argentina (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), Journal of Development Economics, 105, pp. 19-35, November 2013. (A previous version of this paper appeared as “Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide”, NBER Working Paper No. 16947, April 2011.) 

14. Product and Process Productivity: Implications for Quality Choice and Conditional Exporter Premia (with Jagadeesh Sivadasan), Journal of International Economics, 91(1), pp. 53-67, September 2013. (A previous version of this paper appeared as “Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints”, Research Seminar in International Economics No. 628, September 2011.) Related files: technical appendix. 

15. The Internationalization of Argentine SMEs Oriented to Nonmass Market Segments in Developed Countries (with Andrea González), Integration & Trade, 37, pp. 11-21, July-December 2013. (Spanish Version) 

16. Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality (with Peter Schott), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(1), pp. 417-474, February 2011. Related files: technical appendix, data and programs used to generate the results. 

17. A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(3), pp. 453-466, August 2010.  Related files: supplemental appendix

18. Equilibrium Demand Elasticities Across Quality Segments (with Olivier Coibion and Liran Einav), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(1), pp. 13-30, February 2007.

19. Product Quality and the Direction of Trade. Journal of International Economics, 68(1), pp. 238-265, January 2006.  Related files: Export Price Indices, 2-digit SITC: Detailed tables [Tables.xls], [Tables.pdf], Methodology [Matlab code].

20. Specialization, Capital Accumulation, and Development (with Doireann Fitzgerald), Journal of International Economics, 64(2), pp. 277-302, December 2004.

Book Articles 

1. Competing in Agribusiness: Corporate Strategies and Public Policies for the Challenges of the 21st Century, Latin American and Caribbean Microeconomic Report-IADB, Coordinator with Piero Ghezzi, Ernesto Stein, Romina Ordoñez and Lina Salazar, InterAmerican Develoment Bank. 2022.

o   Chapter 1: “The Substantial Potential of Agribusiness for Latin America´s Development” (with Piero Ghezzi and Ernesto Stein).

o   Chapter 2: “Opportunities and Challenges to Add Value to Exports” (with Andrea González and Andrés Tacsir)

o   Chapter 9: “Public Goods to Support the Integration of Agribusiness into International Agrifood Value Chains” (with  Héctor Valdés Conroy and Pablo Elverdín).

2. Building Institutional Capacity to Promote Productive Development: The Case of Design Promotion Policies in Argentina (with Mariana Chudnovsky, Andrea González, Mercedes Sidders, and Mariano Tommasi), in J. Cornick, E. Dal Bó, E. Fernández-Arias, G. Rivas and E. Stein (editors), Building capabilities for productive development, Inter-American Development Bank, 2018. 

3. Sugar Cane, Software and Fashion: Public-Private Collaboration in Argentina (with Roberto Bisang, Andrea González, Andrés López, Daniela Ramos and Ricardo Rozemberg), in Fernández Arias, E., C. Sabel, E. Stein and A. Trejos (Eds.), Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. 

4. TV Formats in Argentina (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), in Charles Sabel, Eduardo Fernández-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare and Ernesto Stein (Eds.), Export Pioneers in Latin America, IDB-Harvard (DRCLAS), 2012. 

5. Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating the Globalization and Growth Debate (with Jim Levinsohn), in Ernesto Zedillo (Ed.), The Future of Globalization: Explorations in Light of Recent Turbulence. Routledge, London and New York, 2008. 

Technical Reports and Unpublished Papers 

1.  Hacia una transformación productiva posible en Tierra del Fuego  (co-director with Tomás Bril Mascarenhas), Fundar, June 2023.

o   Documento 1: “Diagnóstico del Régimen de Tierra del Fuego” (with Tomás Bril Mascarenhas, Lucía Pezzarini, Belén Bentivegna and Leonardo Park).

o   Documento 2: “Reformulación del Subrégimen Industrial de Tierra del Fuego: propuesta y simulación de impactos esperados” (with Leonardo Park y Belén Bentivegna)

o   Documento 3: “Tierra del Fuego: análisis de la viabilidad de la transformación productiva” (Tomás Bril Mascarenhas, Francisco Gatto, Carlos Aggio, Lucía Pezzarini,   Santiago Cunial y Ángeles Sancisi).

2. Coordinacón de los sistemas agroalimentarios en Argentina (with Andrea González, Gabriel Scattolo and Andrés Tacsir), Technical Note IDB-TN-2253, March 2023.

3. ¿Cómo apoyar la internacionalización productiva en América Latina?: análisis de políticas, requerimientos de capacidades y riesgos (with Andrés López), Technical Note IDB-TN-2629, December 2022.

4. ¿Quién tracciona la estrategia sectorial para la inserción internacional? Desafíos de coordinación post-COVID en cadenas agroindustriales de América Latina (with Andrea González and Andrés Tacsir). RedNIE Working Paper No. 104, December 2021. 

5. Los sistemas de trazabilidad como herramienta de diferenciación para la inserción internacional de cadenas de valor agroalimentarias (with Andrés Tacsir), Technical Note IDB-TN-2248, November 2021. 

6. Requisitos técnicos, integración regional y respuestas empresariales: los casos de arándanos y maquinaria agrícola en Argentina (with Andrea González, Gabriel Scattolo and  Andrés Tacsir), IIEP Working Paper  No. 59, May 2021. 

7. Construyendo capacidades institucionales para implementar PDP: El caso de las políticas de promoción del diseño en la Argentina (with Mariana Chudnovsky, Andrea González, Mercedes Sidders and Mariano Tommasi). IDB Working Paper No. 850, Novermber 2017. 

8. La Infraestructura de Calidad y Competitividad en Argentina (with Diego Finchelstein and Matías Werzoky). BID Nota Técnica IDB-TN-1067, July 2016. 

9. Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Argentina (with Roberto Bisang, Andrea González, Andrés López, Daniela Ramos and Ricardo Rozemberg). IDB Working Paper No. 478, March 2014. 

10. Insertion of Argentine Firms in Global Value Chains Not Oriented to the Mass Market: The Cases of High-End Footware and the Basso Group (with Andrea González, Peter Schott and Tatiana Soria Genta). IDB Working Paper No. 375, Novermber 2012. (Spanish Version) 

11. Export Emergence of Differentiated Goods from Developing Countries: Four Argentine Cases (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel), San Andrés Economics Department Working Paper No. 107, March 2011. 

12. Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Products to Developed Countries: The Case of SME-Dominated Sectors in a Semi-Industrialized Country (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel). IDB Working Paper No. 166, July 2010. 

13. Domestic Firms vs. Multinationals: The Effects of Integration, 2000, Harvard University, mimeo.