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Working Papers

2009

  1. Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust? Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  2. Education and Democratic Preferences
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of the European Economic Association (2009)
  4. Televisión y divorcio: evidencias de las novelas en Brasil
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2008

  1. Hasta que punto los latinoamericanos conf'ian y cooperan? Experimentos de campo sobre exclusión social en seis países de América Latina
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  2. Lo que se dice del comportamiento social y acciones reveladas: Evidencia de seis ciudades latinoamericanas utilizando muestras representativas
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. Novelas y fertilidad: elementos de juicio de Brasil
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads
    Also in RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2008) Downloads View citations
  5. Stated Social Behavior and Revealed Actions: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries Using Representative Samples
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  6. To What Extent do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments on Social Exclusion In Six Latin American Countries
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  7. Who Needs Strong Leaders?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  8. ¿A quién le hacen falta líderes autoritarios?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2007

  1. Corporate Governance in Latin America
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
  2. Desigualdad, Democracia, Calidad Institucional y Redistribucion Fiscal
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. Discriminación en América Latina: Eso que (casi) todos vemos? (Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?)
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?
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  5. Empresas privatizadas, instituciones y consecuencias laborales en paises emergentes
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  6. Gobierno Corporativo en América Latina
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  7. Inequality, Democracy, Institutional Quality, and Fiscal Redistribution
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  8. Informalidad y Productividad en el Mercado Laboral: Perú 1986-2001 (Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001)
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  9. Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  10. Institutional Quality and Government Efficiency
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  11. Money Laundering and its Regulation
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  12. On the Determinants and Effects of Political Influence
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
  13. Privatized Firms, Rule of Law and Labor Outcomes in Emerging Markets
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  14. Sobre los determinantes y efectos de la influencia de politica (On the Determinants and Effects of Political Influence)
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2006

  1. Barriers to Exit
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2008)
  2. Búsqueda de rentas y democracia en América Latina: ¿Qué impulsa a qué?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. Corporate Governance and Firm Value in Mexico
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. Does Foreign Aid Help Reduce Income Inequality?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
  5. Does It Matter How People Speak?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  6. Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment for Peru
    2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia, International Association of Agricultural Economists Downloads
  7. Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Downloads View citations
    Also in RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2006) Downloads View citations
  8. El entorno político y los precios de las privatizaciones
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  9. Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads
  10. Inequality and Informality
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2007)
  11. Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Emerging Markets Review (2007)
  12. Is It Possible to Speak English Without Thinking American? On Globalization and the Determinants of Cultural Assimilation
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Economics Letters (2008)
  13. Is the World Flat? Or Do Countries Still Matter?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  14. On Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns After Privatization
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  15. Policy Volatility and Growth
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  16. Political Environment and Privatization Prices
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  17. Redistributional Preferences and Imposed Institutions
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  18. Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  19. Sobre la participación extranjera y los patrones de contratación después de la privatización
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  20. Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich (2006) Downloads
  21. ¿Contribuye la ayuda extranjera a reducir la desigualdad del ingreso?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  22. ¿Quién tiene miedo de la ayuda extranjera? La perspectiva del donante
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  23. ¿Se puede hablar inglés sin pensar como los estadounidenses? Sobre la globalización y los factores determinantes de la asimilación cultural
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2005

  1. Do Democracies Breed Rent-Seeking Behavior?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Policy Reform (2006)
  2. Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. Votación obligatoria y desigualdad del ingreso en una muestra representativa de países
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  5. ¿Cumple la privatización lo que promete? El acceso a los servicios telefónicos y el ingreso familiar en zonas rurales pobres empleando un experimento cuasinatural en Perú
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  6. ¿Fomentan las democracias conductas de procura de rentas?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2004

  1. Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  2. Bundling services and household welfare in developing countries - the case of Peru
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads
  3. Desigualdad, instituciones e informalidad
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. El acoplamiento de servicios y asistencia a los hogares en países en desarrollo empleando datos de panel: el caso de Perú
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  5. Inequality and Institutions
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Downloads View citations
    Also in RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2004) Downloads View citations

    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2007)
  6. Inequality, Institutions, and Informality
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  7. La desigualdad y las instituciones
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  8. Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries
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  9. Normativa del mercado laboral y desigualdad del ingreso: elementos de juicio de un grupo de países
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  10. Privatización en México
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    Also in RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2004) Downloads View citations

2003

  1. Conducción empresarial y flujos de capitales privados hacia América Latina
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  2. Corporate Governance and Private Capital Flows to Latin America
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  3. La privatización y la reestructuración de la fuerza laboral en todo el mundo
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. La racionalización y los precios de la privatización en el sector de las telecomunicaciones
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  5. Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring Around the World
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2002) Downloads View citations
  6. Should State-Owned Firms Change CEOs Before Privatization? The Case of the Telecommunications Industry
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  7. Sincronización de la intensidad del comercio internacional y el ciclo económico: ¿Hay alguna diferencia en los países en desarrollo?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  8. Streamlining and Privatization Prices in the Telecommunications Industry
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Economica (2006)
  9. The Truth About Privatization in Latin America
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    Also in Yale School of Management Working Papers, Yale School of Management (2003) Downloads View citations
  10. Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization: Are Developing Countries any Different?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    Also in Working Papers Central Bank of Chile, Central Bank of Chile (2002) Downloads View citations

    See also Journal Article in Journal of International Economics (2007)
  11. ¿Deben las empresas propiedad del Estado cambiar de presidente ejecutivo antes de una privatización? El caso de la industria de telecomunicaciones
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2002

  1. Internet y la capacidad de innovar en América Latina
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  2. The Internet and the Ability to Innovate in Latin America
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Emerging Markets Review (2003)

2001

  1. Are African Current Account Deficits Different? Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund Downloads View citations
  2. Desigualdad, democracia y persistencia: ¿existe una curva Kuznets política?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  3. Estructura y desarrollo de instituciones financieras y su relación con la confianza: elementos de juicio de varios países
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  4. Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    See also Journal Article in Economics and Politics (2004)
  5. Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
    See also Journal Article in Public Choice (2004)
  6. Políticas de orientación interna, instituciones, autócratas y crecimiento económico en América Latina: un análisis empírico
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
  7. Structure and Development of Financial Institutions and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads View citations
  8. Volume and Quality of Infrastructure and the Distribution of Income: An Empirical Investigation
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2004)
  9. Volumen y calidad de la infraestructura y la distribución del ingreso: investigación empírica
    RES Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Downloads

2000

  1. Determinants of current account deficits in developing countries
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank Downloads View citations
    Also in Working Papers Central Bank of Chile, Central Bank of Chile (1999) Downloads View citations
  2. Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) (2001)

1999

  1. Technology and Epidemics
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations
    See also Journal Article in IMF Staff Papers (2002)

Journal Articles

2009

  1. Can foreign aid reduce income inequality and poverty?
    Public Choice, 2009, 140, (1), 59-84 Downloads
  2. Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns after Privatization
    LABOUR, 2009, 23, (1), 195-207 Downloads
  3. Labor market institutions and income inequality: an empirical exploration
    Public Choice, 2009, 138, (1), 65-81 Downloads
  4. Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 458-468 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2009)
  5. Volatility and firm growth
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2009, 14, (1), 1-25 Downloads

2008

  1. Barriers to exit
    Economics Letters, 2008, 99, (1), 93-97 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (2006)
  2. DOES COMPULSORY VOTING HELP EQUALIZE INCOMES?
    Economics and Politics, 2008, 20, (3), 391-415 Downloads
  3. Informality and productivity in the labor market in Peru
    Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2008, 11, (4), 229-245 Downloads
  4. Is it possible to speak English without thinking American? On globalization and the determinants of cultural assimilation
    Economics Letters, 2008, 100, (2), 192-195 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (2006)
  5. What determines foreign aid? The donors' perspective
    Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (1), 1-13 Downloads View citations

2007

  1. Bundling of Basic Public Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration for the Case of Peru
    Oxford Development Studies, 2007, 35, (3), 329-346 Downloads
  2. Current Account Deficits in Africa: Stylized Facts and Basic Determinants
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 56, 191-221 Downloads View citations
  3. Inequality and Institutions
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, (3), 454-465 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2004)
  4. Inequality and informality
    Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91, (1-2), 159-179 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2006)
  5. Institutional enforcement, labor-market rigidities, and economic performance
    Emerging Markets Review, 2007, 8, (1), 38-49 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (2006)
  6. RENT SEEKING AND DEMOCRACY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR URUGUAY
    Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45, (3), 592-601 Downloads
  7. Should state-owned firms change CEOs before privatization? Some evidence from the telecommunications industry
    Applied Economics Letters, 2007, 14, (8), 591-595 Downloads
  8. Trade intensity and business cycle synchronization: Are developing countries any different?
    Journal of International Economics, 2007, 71, (1), 2-21 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2006

  1. Do Democracies Breed Rent-seeking Behavior?
    Journal of Policy Reform, 2006, 9, (4), 247-260 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2005)
  2. Streamlining and Privatization Prices in the Telecommunications Industry
    Economica, 2006, 73, (291), 461-484 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2003)

2005

  1. Political and Corporate Governance and Pro-Cyclicality in Capital Flows: Evidence from Emerging Market Countries
    International Finance, 2005, 8, (2), 167-198 Downloads

2004

  1. Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?
    Economics and Politics, 2004, 16, (2), 189-212 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
  2. Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration
    Public Choice, 2004, 121, (3), 335-361 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
  3. Volume and Quality of Infrastructure and the Distribution of Income: An Empirical Investigation
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2004, 50, (1), 87-106 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)

2003

  1. The Internet and the ability to innovate in Latin America
    Emerging Markets Review, 2003, 4, (1), 53-72 Downloads View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2002

  1. Development and Efficiency of the Financial Sector and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2002, 51, (1), 189-204
  2. On the determinants of inequality in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    The Economics of Transition, 2002-07, 10, (2), 311-337 Downloads
  3. Poverty and Inequality in Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Civil War
    World Development, 2002, 30, (1), 61-75 Downloads View citations
  4. Technology and Epidemics
    IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49, (3), 6 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (1999)

2001

  1. External sector and income inequality in interdependent economies using a dynamic panel data approach
    Economics Letters, 2001, 71, (2), 225-231 Downloads View citations
  2. Foreign aid and poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Targeting simulations and policy implications
    European Economic Review, 2001, 45, (4-6), 1020-1030 Downloads View citations
  3. ON NON-LINEARITIES BETWEEN EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
    Journal of Applied Economics, 2001, IV, 279-311 Downloads View citations
  4. On the Lags between Submission and Acceptance: Are All Referees Created Equal?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2001, 8, (6), 423-25 Downloads
  5. Technological adaptation, trade, and growth
    Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2001, 137, (4), 565-592 Downloads
    See also Working Paper (2000)

2000

  1. Causality and Feedback Between Institutional Measures and Economic Growth
    Economics and Politics, 2000, 12, (1), 69-81 Downloads View citations
  2. Institutional Quality and Income Distribution
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2000, 48, (4), 761-86 View citations
  3. Institutional quality and poverty measures in a cross-section of countries
    Economics of Governance, 2000, 1, (2), 123-135 View citations
  4. Law tradition and institutional quality: some empirical evidence
    Journal of International Development, 2000, 12, (8), 1057-1068 Downloads View citations
 
 
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