Publications
6. Interest Rate Uncertainty and Sovereign Default Risk
with Alok Johri and Shahed K. Khan.
Journal of International Economics, Accepted on July 2022.
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5. Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: Estimation Methods Matter
with John Kealy and Pau S. Pujolàs.
Economic Inquiry, Volume 57(3), July 2019, pages 1272-1283.
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4. Sovereign Defaults and Banking Crises
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 99, November 2018, pages 88-105.
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3. Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk
with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez
Journal of Political Economy, Volume 124, October 2016, pages 1383-1422.
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2. Voluntary Sovereign Debt Exchanges
with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 61, January 2014, pages 32-50.
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1. Firms’ Financing, Contract Enforcement and Liability Dollarization
Journal of Centrum Cathedra, Vol. 3, No. 1. March 2010. Lead Article.
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Working Papers
Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization, and Sovereign Risk
with Javier Bianchi. Revised and Resubmitted to the Review of Economic Studies. [August ‘22 pdf] [Slides]
Sovereign Debt Standstills
with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez. Revise and Resubmit at JPE Macro. [July ‘22 pdf] [NBER WP version] [Slides]
Does It Matter How Central Banks Accumulate Reserves? Evidence from Sovereign Spreads
with Federico Sturzenegger. Revise and Resubmit to the Journal of International Economics (2nd Round). [June ‘21 pdf] [NBER WP version] [Slides]
On Wars, Sanctions and Sovereign Default.
with Javier Bianchi. Submitted. [August ‘22 pdf] [Twitter thread] [Slides] A short version of this will appear in the AEA P&P (May 2023)
Sovereign Spreads and the Political Leaning of Nations
with Johnny Cotoc and Alok Johri. Submitted. [June ‘22 pdf] [Featured in the NBER Digest]
Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises
with Sewon Hur and Zeynep Yom. [August ‘22 pdf] [NBER WP version (old)] [Slides]
Borrowing in the Shadow of China
with Illenin Kondo and Astghik Mkhitaryan. [August ‘22 pdf]
Policy Papers
- Fiscal rules: Coping with Revenue Volatility in Lesotho and Swaziland
with J.Honda, F. Im, N. Koliadina, M. Morgan, M. Nose and J. Torres. IMF African Department WP. [link]
Work in Progress
Reserve Accumulation and the Currency Composition of Sovereign Debt (with Francisco Roldan)
A Quantitative Analysis of ESBies (with Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez) [Extended abstract]
Equilibrium Repression (with Zach Stangebye)
A Political Inequality Trap (with Augusto Nieto-Barthaburu)