CV:
Books:
Papers:
- Economic Growth in a Cooperative Economy
with Thomas Brzustowski
Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
- Diversification through Trade
with Miklos Koren, Milan Lisicky, and Silvana Tenreyro
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2020
- Robot Arithmetic: New Technology and Wages
with Alan Manning
American Economic Review: Insights, June 2019
- The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach. Comment
with Antonio Ciccone
American Economic Review, March 2019
- The Challenge of European Inequality
with Mario Centeno, Alvaro Novo, and Jose Tavares
in After the Crisis: Reform, Recovery, and Growth in Europe Oxford University Press, 2016
- Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
with Andrea Tesei
Review of Economics and Statistics, July 2016
- The Latin American Efficiency Gap
in Understanding the Income and Efficiency Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank, 2016
data
- Experience-Biased Technical Change
(July 2015)
- The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
with Dominic Rohner and Massimo Morelli
Quarterly Journal of Economics, December 2014
- The Political-Economy of the Greek Debt Crisis: A Tale of Two Bailouts
with Silvia Ardagna
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2014
unpublished appendix
- The Incumbency Effects of Signalling
with Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli, and Ines Moreno-de-Barreda
Economica, July 2014
- The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound
with Antonio Ciccone
Journal of Development Economics, September 2013
- On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
with John Coleman
Journal of the European Economic Association, January 2013
unpublished appendix
- Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
with Guy Michaels
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2013
unpublished appendix
- Dynastic Management
with Nicola Gennaioli
Economic Inquiry, May 2012
- Review of Brian Caplan's book on voting
Economica, October 2010
- 10 Years of EMU - My Take
The Euro at Ten - Lessons and Challenges,
2009
- Leader Behavior and the Natural-Resource Curse
with Tom Cunningham
Oxford Economic Papers, October 2009
- Growth Accounting and Level Accounting
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2008
- Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
with Nicola Gennaioli
Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2008
- The Marginal Product of Capital
with James Feyrer
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2007
data
- The World Technology Frontier
with John Coleman
American Economic Review, June 2006
data
- Power Struggles and the Natural-Resource Curse
(July 2006)
- Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005
data
- Credit Constraints, Competition, and Meritocracy
with Nicola Gennaioli
Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2005
- Is Poland the Next Spain?
with Silvana Tenreyro
NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2004
data
- Bad Politicians
with Massimo Morelli
Journal of Public Economics, March 2004
- Importing Technology
with Dan Wilson
Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2004
data
- The U.S. Technology Frontier
with John Coleman
American Economic Review P&P, May 2002
- The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: A Reinterpretation
with John Coleman
Journal of Political Economy , June 2001
data | appendix
- Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers (long version)
with John Coleman
American Economic Review P&P, May 2001
data
- A Representative Consumer Theory of Distribution
with Jaume Ventura
American Economic Review, September 2000
- Technological Revolutions
American Economic Review, March 1999
appendix
- On the Distribution of Debt and Taxes
Journal of Public Economics, September 1997
- Rural Labor and Credit Markets
Journal of Development Economics, December 1997
- Reopening the Convergence Debate: A New Look at Cross-Country Growth Empirics
with Gerardo Esquivel and Fernando Lefort
Journal of Economic Growth, September 1996