Research

[1] Is exporting on time important for exporting complex products? Cross-section evidence from developed and developing countries

This paper seeks to examine how export-time delays affect the productive structure/the complexity of the economy, using the World Bank's Doing Business data on the days it takes to move a standard cargo from the factory gate to the ship in 131 countries, and the Economic Complexity Index developed by the MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity, which measures the diversity and sophistication of a country's export structure. We show that economies with time consuming export procedures tend to produce and export less sophisticated/complex products. This result proves to be highly consistent across a series of robustness checks.

[2] A Unified Model Encompassing Dynamic Investment and Employment

This paper provides a neoclassical model rich enough to encompass most of the basic models of the dynamic investment and employment literature. Our unified setting focuses on model specification and econometric estimation issues. Among other things, this enables us to survey the recent research on the dynamics of investment and employment.