ALEJANDRO CUŅAT

 

 

 

London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London, UK.

Phone: +44 207 9556967 --- Fax: +44 207 9557595 --- E-mail: a.cunat@lse.ac.uk

 

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RESEARCH

 

Publications:

 

Job Creation in Italy: Geography, Determinants and Perspectives, (joint with Giovanni Peri)

Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, April 2001. 

 

Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade, (joint with Marco Maffezzoli)

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol 7/3 pp 707-736, July 2004.

 

Heckscher-Ohlin Business Cycles, (joint with Marco Maffezzoli)

Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol 7/3 pp 555-585, July 2004.

 

Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade, (joint with Marco Maffezzoli)

Economic Journal, forthcoming.

 

Working Papers:

 

Can International Trade Equalize Factor Prices? IGIER Working Paper #180.

 

Sectoral Allocation in the Process of Growth, IGIER  Working Paper #181.

 

Trade Integration and Growth, (joint with Marco Maffezzoli) IGIER Working Paper #220.

 

The Generalized Neoclassical Growth Model, (joint with Marco Maffezzoli) IGIER Working Paper #231.

 

 

 Work in Progress:

 

Volatility, Labour Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage, (joint with Marc Melitz).

 

Comparative Advantage and International Portfolio Choice, (joint with Christian Fons-Rosen).

 

Discussions:

 

Bourguignon, F. and D. Coyle (2003): Inequality, Public Perception and the Institutional Responses to Globalisation, Moneda y Credito.

 

Book Reviews:

 

Gomory, R.E. and W.J. Baumol (2000): Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests, in Journal of Economic Literature, December, vol. XLI, n. 4.

 

TEACHING

 

Graduate courses taught at LSE and Bocconi: International Trade and International Finance.

 

Graduate courses taught at Harvard (teaching assistant): Macroeconomics.

 

Undergraduate courses taught at LSE: International Trade.