Research

Publications

  • Racial disparities in labor outcomes: The effects of hiring discrimination over the business cycle (2024), Economic Analysis and Policy (with F. Kuhn). Published Paper | Working Paper
    About: We investigate how labor outcomes are affected by hiring discrimination over the business cycle. While evidence suggests that discrimination in hiring can create disparities in unemployment rates between discriminated and non-discriminated groups (e.g., racial unemployment gap), there is limited understanding of how such disparities may be exacerbated during a recession. Our approach aims to shed light on this issue.

  • Crime under-reporting in Bogotá: a spatial panel model with fixed effects (2023), Empirical Economics (with S. Kumbhakar and L. Sandoval). Published Paper | Working Paper | Code
    About: We propose a novel spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model with fixed effects and use a rich database of police-reported crimes in Bogotá to study whether living near neighborhoods with high crime rates may affect crime reporting.

  • The effect of crop insurance in Ecuadorian rice farming: a technical efficiency approach (2023), Agricultural Finance Review (with A. Reyes, A. Villegas, M. Castro) Published Paper
    About: We estimate the technical efficiency of a massive and economically important crop in Ecuador and conduct a comparison between groups of farmers with and without insurance.

  • Export Diversification Dynamics in Latin America (2015), in Handbook on Trade and Development (edited by Morrissey, O., López, R. A., and Sharma, K. Elgar Publishing) (with Manuel Agosin). Published Version
    About: In this chapter, we construct a set of export diversification measures in order to give a detailed view of the export diversification dynamics in Latin America.

Working Papers

  • Interconnectedness and Banking Performance: Insights from the Interbank Lending Market in Chile (2025). Working Paper | Slides
    About: This paper provides evidence suggesting that bank networks, typically viewed through the lens of contagion risk, may also be a key source of industry-wide performance gains.

  • Energy prices, firms’ productivity and market power by industry. Evidence from a developing country (2020). Working Paper
    About: In this paper I study whether energy prices affects Chilean manufacturing firms’ productivity and markups by industry. (Third-year paper for the doctoral program).

Others

  • Additional Resources: Stata Package for zero-stochastic frontier (developed during my third year in the doctoral program) chks