Research
Working Papers
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"The 2025 Trade War: Dynamic Impacts across U.S. States and the Global Economy" [PDF] (with Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Mauricio Ulate, and Jose P. Vásquez)
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"Spatial Misallocation, Informality and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City" [PDF]
Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Review, 2nd round
Urban Economics Association 2020 Student Prize (Honorable Mention)
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"Lakes and Economic Development: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad" [PDF] (with Remi Jedwab, Federico Haslop, and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelan)
Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
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"Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions" [PDF] (with Mauricio Ulate and Jose P. Vásquez)
Accepted at the Journal of Monetary Economics
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"Complements or Substitutes: Labor Market Effects of Foreign Inputs in Developing Economies" [PDF] (with Leonardo Bonilla and Juan Munoz-Morales)
Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics special issue on Trade and Uneven Economic Development
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"Measuring Imperfect Competition in Product and Labor Markets. An Empirical Analysis using Firm-level Production Data" [PDF] [Slides] (with Darío Tortarolo) (New version coming soon)
Selected Work in Progress
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"Urban Transit Infrastructure Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Power" (with Jorge Pérez-Pérez, and Felipe Vial) [Slides]
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"The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions" (with Isabela Manelici, Mauricio Ulate, and Jose P. Vásquez)
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"Understanding Low Productivity in Developing Countries: Evidence from the Airline Industry" (with David Atkin, and Amit Khandelwal)
Other Writing
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"VoxDevLit: Land Transport Infrastructure" (with Marco González-Navarro, Remi Jedwab, and Nick Tsivanidis) [PDF]
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"Condiciones de pobreza y el acceso a programas sociales de los hogares colombianos" (with Adriana Camacho), Chap 4. Colombia en Movimiento 2010-2013. Editorial UniAndes [PDF]