Published and forthcoming
Creativity and Innovation in the Food Industry: Integrating Artistic Typologies and Strategic Breakthroughs (with Nicolas Depetris Chauvin and David Priilaid), Current Opinion in Food Science, (2025).
Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis), Management Science, Forthcoming.
The Impact of Innovator Types on Export Performance in the Argentine Wine Industry (with Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Ferro, Gustavo; Gatti, Nicolas; and Villanueva, Emiliano C.), Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, Forthcoming.
Injecting Adam Smith’s Ideas in the Market for Kidney Transplants (with Walter Castro), Adam Smith Review, Nov. 2024.
"Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations," (with Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Axel Ockenfels, Alvin E Roth). BMJ Global Health, Volume 9, Issue 4 (21 April, 2024).
Public opinions on removing disincentives and introducing incentives for organ donation: proposing a European research agenda (with Frederike Ambagtsheer, Eline Bunnik, Liset H.M. Pengel, Marlies Reinders, Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis). Transplant International, 37, 12483, 2024.
Adam Smith: Experimental Innovator (with Walter Castro). Econlib Articles, August 7, 2023.
Analysis of Innovation in Peru´s Gastronomy Industry (with Alvaro Garcia Negro, Ian Mount and Maja Schiling). Monography, Interamerican Development Bank, May 2022.
The shortage of kidneys for transplant: Altruism, exchanges, opt in vs. opt out, and the market for kidneys (with Gary S. Becker and Karen J. Ye), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 202(C), pages 211-226, 2022.
Knowledge and Innovation Analysis in the Wine Industry in Argentina (with Alvaro Garcia Negro, Gustavo Ferro and Paolo Di Salvo). Monography, Interamerican Development Bank, May 2020.
"Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment" (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis). American Economic Review, 109 (8): 2855-88, August 2019.
"The Economic and Moral Foundations of Americans’ Attitudes toward Paying Kidney Donors" (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis). Research Brief in Economic Policy, Cato Institute, No 172, July 17, 2019.
Nicolas Catena Zapata and the Malbec: Technology Transfer through Migration. In “Critical Connections: Promoting Economic Growth and Resilience in Europe and Central Asia. Europe and Central Asia Studies,” ed. Gould, David Michael, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2018.
Allocating production risks through credit cum insurance contracts: the design and implementation of a fund for small cotton growers to access market finance (with Mauro Alem). International Food and Agribusiness Management Review: 21 (2) - Pages: 237 – 248, 2018.
"Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities" (with Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Paola Salardi), American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), May 2017.
"The Current Role and the Future of Development Banking" (with Mauro Alem). Awarded with the “Rommel Acevedo Latin American Award on Development Banking” from The Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE).
"Understanding moral repugnance: The case of the US market for kidney transplantation" (with Nicola Lacetera, and Mario Macis). Voxeu.org, October 15, 2016.
"Markets and Morals: An Experimental Survey Study" (with Nicola Lacetera, and Mario Macis). PloS one 10 (6), e0127069.
"Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs" (with Nicola Lacetera, and Mario Macis). American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 105(5): 361-65, 2015.
"Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations" (with Gary S. Becker), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2007.
"The Link between Unemployment and the Marriage Rate: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980-1999" Cuadernos de Economía, Latin American Journal of Economics: 121, December 2003.
Books and Book Chapters
The Economics of Organ Donations, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (forthcoming).
The Economic Approach: Unpublished Writings of Gary S. Becker. Edited by Julio J. Elias, Casey B. Mulligan and Kevin M. Murphy. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
"The role of repugnance in the development of markets: The case of the market for kidneys for transplants". In Costa-Font, J. and Macis, M. (Eds.), Social Economics, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.
"Argentina’s Regional Performance: 1970–2010" (with Victor J. Elias, Mauro Alem and Maria Antonella Mancino). In Regional Problems and Policies in Latin America, ed. Juan Ramon Cuadrado and Aroca, Springer, 2013.
"Análisis Económico de Mercados No Convencionales". In Avances en Microeconomía, ed. Omar Chissari, Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, 2011.
"Discrimination and Social Networks: Popularity among High School Students in Argentina" (with Victor J. Elias and Lucas Ronconi). In Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective, ed. A. Chong, A. Moro and H. Ñopo, IADB, 2010.
"Operational organization of a system for compensated living organ providers" (with David Cronin). In When Altruism Isn’t Enough: Using Incentives to Reduce the National Kidney Shortage, ed. Sally Satel, AEI, 2009.
Working Papers
Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis), NBER Working Papers 29963, April 2022.
Injecting Adam Smith’s Ideas in the Market for Kidney Transplants (with Walter Castro), CEMA Working Paper, 2022.
Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis), NBER Working Paper No. 25581, February 2019.
"A Quest for Quality: Creativity and Innovation in the Wine Industry of Argentina" (with Gustavo Ferro).
"Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment" (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis), NBER Working Paper No. 25581, February 2019.
"Innovators and Innovations in High Quality Wines of Argentina" (with Gustavo Ferro), CEMA Working Papers: Serie Documentos de Trabajo. 651, Universidad del CEMA, 2018.
"Understanding Repugnance: Implications for Public Policy" (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis). Documento de Trabajo UCEMA, 2017.
"Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities" (with Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Paola Salardi), NBER Working Paper No. 23214, March 2017.
"Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment" (with Nicola Lacetera, and Mario Macis). NBER Working Paper No. 22632, September 2016.
"Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs" (with Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis). NBER Working Paper No. 20866, January 2015.
"La Economía de los Trasplantes de Organos: Los Incentivos Importan", Documento de Trabajo UCEMA, 2014.
"The Formation of Students Groups: The Role of Beauty and Academic Achievement" (with Victor J. Elias and Lucas Ronconi) Working Paper, 2010.
"The Effects of Ability and Family Background on Non-Monetary Returns to Education". Working Paper, 2006.
"Banking Development and Mortality" (with George McCandless). Working paper, 2010.
"The Increase in Female Labor Force Participation: Latin America 1990-2004" (with Hugo Nopo Aguilar). Working Paper, 2005.
"The Total Return to Education". Working Paper, 2006.
"Analysis and Evolution of Wage Inequality in Argentina: 1980-1999". (with Lucas Ronconi) Working Paper, 2002.