Publications
The Dark Side of Transparency: Mission Variety and Industry Equilibrium in Decentralized Public Good Provision (with Gani Aldashev and Thierry Verdier), Economic Journal, vol. 133, August 2023.
Inside the White Box: Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization (with Boryana Madzharova and Vincenzo Merella), European Economic Review, vol. 152, February 2023. [Online Appendix]
Quality Growth: From Process to Product Innovation along the Path of Development, Economic Theory, vol. 71, March 2021.
Roadways, Input Sourcing and Patterns of Specialization, European Economic Review, vol. 120, November 2019. [Online Appendix]
Small is Beautiful: Motivational allocation in the non-profit sector (with Gani Aldashev and Thierry Verdier), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 16, June 2018.
Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade (with Vincenzo Merella), Journal of International Economics, vol. 97, November 2015. [Online Appendix]
Excessive Public Employment and Rent-Seeking Traps (with Juan Pablo Rud), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 106, January 2014.
Import Diversification along the Growth Path, Economics Letters, vol. 117, Oct. 2012.
Quality Ladders in a Ricardian Model of Trade with Nonhomothetic Preferences (Vincenzo Merella), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 10, August 2012. [Online Appendix]
Migration, Remittances and Capital Accumulation: Evidence from rural Mexico (with Vera Chiodi and Gabriel Montes-Rojas), Journal of Development Studies, vol. 48 August 2012.
Sectoral Differentiation, Allocation of Talent, and Financial Development, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 96, September 2011.
Adverse Selection and Entrepreneurship in a Model of Development, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 112, March 2010.
Working Papers
The Intensive Margin of Altruism: Impact of Covid-19 on Charitable Giving in England and Wales, February 2024.
Work-in-Progress
Mode of Transport along the Quality Dimension (with Vincenzo Merella)
First-mover advantage in export markets (with Facundo Albornoz, Holger Breinlich and Volker Nocke)