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]. Submitted.
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. Under Revision for Resubmission to the Journal of Urban Economics.
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.