Publications
A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis, with Adriana Lleras-Muney, Demography, 2022, NBER WP IMF WP IMF Research Perspectives [model][replication]
Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance, with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Bérengère Patault, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024 IMF WP VoxEU
Diversification in Sight? A Macroeconomic Assessment of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, with Zamid Alighishiev, International Economics, 2024
Working Papers
How Costly Are Cartels? (ⓡ Ludovic Panon) [Revised & Resubmitted to AEJ: Macroeconomics] IMF WP; Vox EU; Les Echos[1][2]
Beyond Tariffs: Infrastructure Gaps and Trade in Latin America (with Rina Bhattacharya, Rafael Parente, and Sam Pienknagura); based on The Dynamics of Trade Integration and Fragmentation in Latin America (with Rafael Machado Parente) IMF WP; IMF Blog; Bloomberg Línea; The Economist [Reject & Resubmit]
A Search-Based Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions (ⓡ Semih Üslü) [Under Review]
Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean, with Sophia Chen, Ryu Matsuura, and Joana Pereira, IMF WP [Under Review]
Inferring Capital-Labor Substitution from Firm Size Distortions [Under Revision]
Demography, Female Labor Force Participation and Growth in Latin America (with Camila Casas and Nicolas Gomez Parra) [Draft coming soon]
Work in Progress
The Cost of Economic Cartels in LAC (with Ludovic Panon)
Informality, Labor Slack, and the Phillips Curve in Latin America (with Camila Casas and Ana Paula Nothen Ruhe)
Eastern Caribbean Migrations in the XXIth Century
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion, and Development in Small Open Economies
Growth and the Energy Transition in the Caribbean (with DeLisle Worrell)
Natural Resource Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Empirical Analysis (with Antoine Arnoud and Abraham Lartey)
Greening the IMF Quotas (with Shan He and Mengxue Wang)
Reciprocal Climate Commitments (with Rishi Bhandary)
The Propagation of Credit Supply Shocks through Investment Networks (with David Kohn, Nan Li, and others)
Other Publications
Quel est l’impact du pouvoir d’appreciation des juges sur les indemnites de licenciement? (with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, and Bérengère Patault), Droit Social, Sept. 2022
Do French companies under-report their workforce at 49 employees to get around the law? (with P. Askenazy, T. Breda, and V. Pecheu), IPP Policy Brief n°82
Replication
In July 2023, we organized the first Bank-Fund Replication Games in partnership with the Institute for Replication