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Working Papers

2025

1. Breaking Barriers in Retirement Planning: Evidence from Colombia’s Dual-Advisory Program
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

2024

2. Quantifying Green Job Potential in Colombia: A Task-Based Approach
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

2021

3. Direct and Indirect Effects of Lockdown Policies on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE
4. Valuing personal safety and the gender earnings gap
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE View citations (4)

2020

5. EMEs and COVID-19 Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra y Marcela Eslava
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE View citations (18)
6. EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (33)
7. Economías emergentes y COVID-19 Cierres en un mundo de empresas informales y pequenas
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

2019

8. Medidas de riesgo financiero usando cópulas: teoría y aplicaciones
   Working papers, Red Investigadores de Economía
   Also in Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica de Colombia (2008) View citations (1)
   Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica (2008) View citations (7)
9. The socioeconomic patterns of COVID outside advanced economies: the case of Bogotá
   Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

2018

10. Effects of Future Pension Benefits on Pre-retirement Labor Supply: Evidence from Chile
    Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

2017

11. Pension Incentives and Formal-Sector Labor Supply: Evidence from Colombia
    Documentos CEDE, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE View citations (4)

2015

12. The Mystery of Saving in Latin America
    IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (2)

2012

13. Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
    IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (8)
    Also in Research Department Publications, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2012) View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters, Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2014) View citations (52) (2014)

2010

14. Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
    IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (24)
    Also in Research Department Publications, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department (2010) View citations (85)
    See also Journal Article Estimating the Direct Economic Damages of the Earthquake in Haiti, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2010) View citations (95) (2010)
15. In the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters, what happens to foreign aid?
    Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics View citations (11)
16. The Politics of Financial Development - The Role of Interest Groups and Government Capabilities
    Research Department Publications, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department View citations (5)
    Also in IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank (2010) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The politics of financial development: The role of interest groups and government capabilities, Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier (2012) View citations (55) (2012)

2009

17. Assessing the effect of policy interventions on small arms demand in Bogotá, Colombia
    Documentos de CERAC, CERAC -Centro de Recursos para el Análisis de Conflictos

2008

18. Transmisión de tasas de interés bajo el esquema de metas de inflación: evidencia para Colombia
    Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica de Colombia View citations (4)
    Also in Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica (2008) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Transmisión de Tasas de Interés bajo el Esquema de Metas de Inflación: Evidencia para Colombia, Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. (2009) View citations (6) (2009)

2006

19. Una Aproximación a La Dinámica de las Tasas de Interés de Corto Plazo en Colombia a través de Modelos GARCH Multivariados
    Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica View citations (6)
    Also in Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica de Colombia (2006) View citations (6)

2005

20. MEDIDAS DE RIESGO, CARACTERISTICAS Y TÉCNICAS DE MEDICIÓN: UNA APLICACIÓN DEL VAR Y EL ES A LA TASA INTERBANCARIA DE COLOMBIA
    Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica View citations (1)
    Also in Borradores de Economia, Banco de la Republica de Colombia (2005) View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2015

1. Where is the money? Post-disaster foreign aid flows
   Environment and Development Economics, 2015, 20, (5), 561-586 View citations (17)

2014

2. Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
   Review of Development Economics, 2014, 18, (3), 445-460 View citations (52)
   See also Working Paper Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters, IDB Publications (Working Papers) (2012) View citations (8) (2012)

2012

3. The politics of financial development: The role of interest groups and government capabilities
   Journal of Banking & Finance, 2012, 36, (3), 626-643 View citations (55)
   See also Working Paper The Politics of Financial Development - The Role of Interest Groups and Government Capabilities, Research Department Publications (2010) View citations (5) (2010)

2010

4. Estimating the Direct Economic Damages of the Earthquake in Haiti
   Economic Journal, 2010, 120, (546), F298-F312 View citations (95)
   See also Working Paper Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti, IDB Publications (Working Papers) (2010) View citations (24) (2010)

2009

5. Transmisión de Tasas de Interés bajo el Esquema de Metas de Inflación: Evidencia para Colombia
   Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 2009, 46, (133), 107-134 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Transmisión de tasas de interés bajo el esquema de metas de inflación: evidencia para Colombia, Borradores de Economia (2008) View citations (4) (2008)
6. Vulnerabilidad de los hogares en Colombia ante cambios en el ciclo económico
   Coyuntura Económica, 2009

2008

7. Una descripción de la dinámica de las tasas de interés de corto plazo en Colombia
   Monetaria, 2008, XXXI, (2), 145-173