Luis F. Jaramillo
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Columbia University in the City of New York
Economics Consultant
Inter-American Development Bank
lfj2111@columbia.edu
Research Interests: trade and industrial policy, innovation, productive development
Tools: causal inference, structural models, language models
Publications
Free-riding Yankees: Canada and the Panama Canal, with Sebastián F. Galiani and Mateo Uribe-Castro. [VoxEU Summary]. [Faculti Interview]. [Pre-print]. Lead Article at the Journal of Economic Growth (2025).
Working Papers
Innovation Spurred: Evidence from South Korea's Big R&D Push, with Chan Kim. [Video Presentation]. [AI-Generated Podcast]..
Market Access and Migration: Evidence from the Panama Canal Opening during the Great Migration, with Sebastián F. Galiani and Mateo Uribe-Castro. NBER Working Paper. Submitted.
Work in Progress
The Politics of Import Substitution Industrialization in Mexico and Taiwan, with Melissa Dell and Pablo Querubín.
Firm-Level Upgrading in Pharmaceuticals, with Gianluca Antonecchia, Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Surabhi Ghai, and Eric Verhoogen.