Recent publications

Working Papers 

“Swept by the Tide? The International Comovement of Capital Flows” (with Luis Fernández-Lafuerza). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8787 (2019). 

“Assessing the international comovement of equity returns” (with Girum Abate). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8516 (2018).

“Gross capital flows, common factors, and the global financial cycle” (with Luis-Diego Barrot). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8354 (2018).

Journal Articles

"Poverty convergence clubs" (with Gustavo Marrero and Angel Marrero-Linares), Review of Income and Wealth (forthcoming).

“The structural and productivity effects of infrastructure provision in developed and developing countries" (with Luis Orea and Inmaculada Álvarez-Ayuso), Advances in Econometrics (forthcoming).

“Gross Capital Flows by Banks, Corporates, and Sovereigns” (with Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan Hardy, and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan), Journal of the European Economic Association 20, 2098–2135 (2022).

"Productivity and the Welfare of Nations" (with Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, and Fabio Schiantarelli), Journal of the European Economic Association 20, 1647–1682 (2022).

“Growth, inequality and poverty: a robust relationship?” (with Gustavo Marrero). Empirical Economics 63, 725–791 (2022).

 “Adding Space to the International Business Cycle” (with Girum Abate). Journal of Macroeconomics  65 (2020).

“Openness, specialization, and the external vulnerability of developing countries” (with Luis-Diego Barrot and César Calderón). Journal of Development Economics 134, 310-328 (2018). 

Book Chapters

"Economic growth: TFP is needed" (with César Calderón), in Boosting Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, The World Bank (forthcoming).

"Sectoral structure and growth" (with César Calderón), in Boosting Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa, The World Bank (forthcoming).

“A Two-Level Top-Down Decomposition of Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Role of Infrastructure” (with L. Orea and I. Alvarez-Ayuso), in J. Aparicio, C. Knox Lovell, J. Pastor, and J. Zhu (eds.), Advances in Efficiency and Productivity II. Springer (2020).

"From chronic inflation to chronic deflation", in K. Basu and T. Cordella (eds.), The State of Economics, the State of the World, MIT Press (2020)

“Infrastructure, growth and inequality” (with César Calderón), in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan (2018).

“Too poor to grow” (with Humberto López), in Economic Policies in Emerging-Market Economies¸ edited by Ricardo Caballero and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, MIT Press and Central Bank of Chile (2015).

“Macro-prudential policies over the cycle in Latin America” (with César Calderón), in S. Schmukler and T. Didier (eds.), Emerging Issues in Financial Development: Lessons from Latin America. The World Bank (2014).