Journal articles
"Bankruptcy costs, idiosyncratic risk, and long-run growth," with A. Morozumi, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2022, pp. 1-36
"The value-added tax and growth: design matters," with A. Morozumi, International Tax and Public Finance, 2021, 28, pp. 1211-1241
"Tax Composition and Growth: A Broad Cross-Country Perspective," with S. Sola and J. Yoo, German Economic Review, 2019, 20:4, pp. e70-e106
"Public Spending Reallocations and Economic Growth Across Different Income Levels," with A. Morozumi, Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55:1, pp. 98-114
"Canales de transmisión de la tasa de interés y el tipo de cambio en economías dolarizadas y no dolarizadas: los casos de Chile, Nueva Zelanda, Perú y Uruguay," with D. Coble, Revista de Economía Chilena, 2013, 16:1
IMF working papers and technical notes
“A Guide and Tool for Projecting Public Gross Financing Needs”, with L. Martinez and J. Restrepo, IMF TNM/2025/01
"Tax Policy for Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean," with S. Pienknagura and C. Pizzinelli, IMF WP/22/8
"A Guide and Tool for Projecting Public Debt and Fiscal Adjustment Paths with Local- and Foreign-Currency Debt," with L. Martinez, IMF TNM 2021/005
"Public Debt Dynamics and Intra-Year Exchange Rate Fluctuations," IMF WP/20/261
"The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters," with A. Morozumi, IMF WP/19/96
"Fiscal Policy, Long-Term Growth and Income Inequality," with C. Correa-Caro and T. Komatsuzaki, IMF WP/17/145
"Demographic Changes in Latin-America: The good, the bad, and ...," with M. Espinosa-Vega and D. Wachs, IMF WP/17/94
"Can a Government Enhance Long-Run Growth by Changing the Composition of Public Expenditure?," with A. Morozumi, IMF WP/13/62
"Tax Composition and Growth: A Broad Cross-Country Perspective," with J. Yoo, IMF WP/12/257
"Monetary Transmission in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies: The Cases of Chile, New Zealand, Peru and Uruguay," with D. Coble, IMF WP/11/87
IMF Regional Economic Outlook (REO) chapters for the Western Hemisphere
"Public Debt Dynamics in Latin America: Time to Rebuild Buffers and Strengthen Fiscal Frameworks," contributor, with J. Passadore, J. Treviño, L. Antoun de Almeida, C. He and R. Perrelli, October 2024
"Navigating Tighter Global Financial Conditions," lead author, October 2022
"Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and the COVID-19 Shock," co-lead author, with I. Duarte and S. Pienknagura, October 2022
"A Long and Winding Road to Recovery," contributor, October 2021
"Tax Policy for Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean," lead author, with S. Pienknagura and C. Pizzinelli, October 2021
IMF selected issued and board papers
"Mexico: Reforms to the Fiscal Framework", with E. Vesperoni and J. Zook, Country Report 13/333
"Towards a Structural Fiscal Balance Measure for Mexico", with E. Vesperoni and J. Zook, Country Report 13/333
"Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks for Resource-Rich Developing Countries", 2012
"The Case for Tax Revenue Mobilization in Mexico", Country Report 12/317
"On a Revenue Neutral Growth-Oriented Tax Reform for Belgium", Country Report 12/56
"Modernizing the Framework for Fiscal Policy and Public Debt Sustainability Analysis", 2011
"Paraguay: Potential Output Growth and Spillovers from Agriculture", Country Report 11/239
"Transmission of Policy Rates in Uruguay: A Cross-Country Perspective", Country Report 11/63
"The Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Paraguay", with T. Daban, Country Report 10/70
Books and chapters in books
"The Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Channels in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies", with D. Coble, in Managing Economic Volatility in Latin America, ed. by G. Gelos and A. Werner: IMF Publishing, Ch. 8, 2014
Virtudes y Defectos de la Globalizacion en la Economa Argentina, Manuel Belgrano First Prize, Buenos Aires: EDICON (Book, 71pp.), 2006