Publications

The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters

With K. Athreya, R. Mather, and J. Mustre-del-Rio. 

Review of Financial Studies, accepted January 2024.

Working paper version.

Evergreening 

With M. Faria-e-Castro and P. Paul. 

Journal of Financial Economics,  Vol. 153, March 2024.

 Working paper version.

Financing Ventures 

With J. Greenwood and P. Han.

International Economic Review, Vol. 63 (3), August 2022

Working paper version.

Improving Sovereign Debt Restructurings 

With M. Dvorkin & H. Sapriza & E. Yurdagul.  

Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Vol. 139, June 2022. 

Working paper version.

Sovereign Debt Restructurings 

With M. Dvorkin, H. Sapriza, and E. Yurdagul. 

American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, Vol. 13 (2), April 2021.

Working paper version.

Designing Unemployment Insurance for Developing Countries 

With F. Cirelli and E. Espino. 

Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 148, January 2021

Working paper version.

News, Sovereign Debt Maturity, and Default Risk 

With M. Dvorkin, H. Sapriza, and E. Yurdagul. 

Journal of International Economics, Vol. 126, September 2020

Working paper version. 

The Persistence of Financial Distress 

With K. Athreya and J. Mustre-del-Río. 

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 32, Issue 10, October 2019.

Working paper version.

Natural Resources and Global Misallocation 

With A. Monge-Naranjo and R. Santaeulalia-Llopis. 

American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, Vol. 11 (2), April 2019

Working paper version.

Investment and Bilateral Insurance 

With E. Espino and J. Kozlowski. 

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 176, July 2018

Working paper version.

Bankruptcy and Delinquency in a Model of Unsecured Debt 

With K. Athreya, X. Tam, and E. Young. 

International Economic Review, Vol. 59 (2), May 2018

Working paper version.

Sovereign Default and Maturity Choice 

With H. Sapriza and E. Yurdagul. 

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 95, May 2018

Working paper version.

The IT revolution and the unsecured credit market 

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 56 (2), November 2017

Working paper version.

Revisiting Gertler-Gilchrist Evidence on the Behavior of Small and Large Firms 

With M. Kudlyak. 

Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Vol. 77, April 2017

Working paper version.

Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? 

With H. L. Cole and J. Greenwood. 

Econometrica, Vol. 84 (4), July 2016

Working paper version.

Mortgage Defaults 

With J. C. Hatchondo and L. Martinez.

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 76, November 2015

Working paper version.

Labor Market Upheaval, Default Regulations, and Consumer Debt 

With K. Athreya, X. Tam, and E. Young. 

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 18 (1), January 2015. 

Working paper version.

Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development 

With J. Greenwood and C. Wang. 

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 16, January 2013. 

Working paper version.

Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs 

With J. Greenwood and C. Wang. 

American Economic Review, Vol. 100 (4), September 2010

Working paper version.

Fiscal Policy and Default Risk in Emerging Markets 

With G. Cuadra and H. Sapriza. 

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 13 (2), April 2010

Working paper version.

Unemployment Insurance with a Hidden Labor Market 

With F. Alvarez-Parra. 

Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 56 (7), October 2009

Working paper version.

Optimal State-contingent Unemployment Insurance 

Economics Letters, Vol. 98 (3), March 2008

Working paper version.