Research

Publications

• Autarky in Franco’s Spain: the costs of a closed economy (with Rolf Campos and Jacopo Timini), Economic History Review (2023), Vol 76, Issue 4, 1259-1280. PDF, Online Appendix, Replication package, Journal version

• Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and the Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits (with Rolf Campos and J. Ignacio García-Pérez), The Economic Journal (2022), Vol 132, Issue 648, 2674-2701. Journal version WP version

• Do the Unemployed Pay Lower Prices? A Reassessment of the Value of Unemployment Insurance (with Rolf Campos), Journal of the European Economic Association (2020), Vol 18, Issue 5. Journal version

• Alternative Diff-in-Diffs Estimators with Several Pretreatment Periods (with Ricardo Mora), Econometric Reviews (2019), Vol 38:5, 465-486 Journal version WP version

• Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Consumption versus Expenditure (with Rolf Campos) Labour Economics (2016), Vol 38, January, 81–89. Journal version WP version

• didq: A Command for Treatment Effect Estimation under Alternative Assumptions (with Ricardo Mora), The Stata Journal (2015), Volume 15 Number 3, 796-808. Journal version WP version (didq.ado available in Stata)

• Consumption in the Shadow of Unemployment (with Rolf Campos), European Economic Review (2015), Volume 78, August, 39–54. Journal version WP version

• Measurement Error in Imputation Procedures (with Rolf Campos), Economics Letters (2014), Volume 122, Issue 2, 197-202. Journal version WP version

• Micro vs. Macro Consumption Data: The Cyclical Properties of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (with Rolf Campos and Dionisio García-Píriz), Applied Economics (2013), 45(26), 3778-3785. Journal version WP version

• The influence of the mother’s power on her child’s labor in Mexico, Journal of Development Economics (2011), 96(1), 95-105. Journal version WP version

• On the Endogeneity of Exchange Rate Regimes (with Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Federico Sturzenegger). European Economic Review (2010), 54(5), 659-677. Journal version WP version