Boon, Curse, Fortune or Evil? The Political Consequences of Inward Foreign Direct Investment, with Boliang Zhu. Book manuscript under review. Download Manuscript.
Heterogeneous Districts, Interests, and Trade Policy, with Kishore Gawande, and Santiago M. Pinto. Download (Nov-2024 version).
An earlier version was published as Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, November 2023, Working Paper Series No. 23-12.
The original version of the paper titled “Voting, lobbying and trade policy. A structural estimation framework” was presented at the International Political Economy Society 2020 Conference.
Natural Disasters and Cooperation under Diversity: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy & the State Working Paper No. No. 378 (December 2025), with Pablo Balan and Agustin Vallejo. Download CPP WP 2026-1
District Heterogeneity, Legislative Bargaining, and Trade Policy, with Kishore Gawande, and Santiago M. Pinto. Download.
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization, with Buttorff, Gail and Soran Mohtadi, presented at the 101st Annual Conference for the Western Economic Association International, Denver, June 29-July 3, 2026.
How the IMF Influences Public Opinion towards Policy Reform: A Meta Analysis, with Stephanie Rickard, and James R. Vreeland, presented at the IMF Program Matters Seminar, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC, May 5, 2026.
Promotion, Relegation and Competitive Balance: Evidence from Mexican Fútbol, with Juan Pablo Micozzi, Joaquin Pinto, and Sebastian Saiegh, Center for Public Policy, Working Paper Series CPP-WP-2026-03.
The Perils of Privilege: Manufacturing Wages, Educational Attainment, and the Populist Response to Industrial Decline, with William Roberts Clark and Keigo Tanabe. Download.
Partisan Differences in Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment, with Gail Buttorff, Sameer Malik, Horacio Rueda, Agustin Vallejo, and Sunny Wong. Presented at the 2024 Latin America Political Methodology (LA PolMeth) Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay November 22-23, 2024. Download.
Regulating Foreign Investment: A Study of the Properties of Bilateral Investment Regimes, with Santiago M. Pinto and Nicolas Stier-Moses. Download
Partisanship and the Allocation of Foreign Investment under Imperfect Capital Mobility, with Santiago M. Pinto. Download
Opportunistic policies under varying costs of redeployment: evidence from the auto industry, with Santiago M. Pinto. Download
Fiscal Policy in Good Times and Bad Times: Distributive motivations and pro-cyclical spending in Argentina, with Martin Ardanaz and Santiago M. Pinto. Download.
Love thy neighbor: Moral suasion and the formation of immigration policy preferences, with Leonardo Antenangeli and Jeff Church.
The Multidimensionality of Governance: Unpacking the effect of elections, rule of law and contract enforcement on investment risk, with Susan Achury and Rodrigo Nuñez-Donoso.
Industry segmentation and the market for protection: Evidence from oil, with Llewelyn Hughes. Download.
Democracy and Wellbeing: A difference-in-differences analysis of the consequences of regime transitions, with Robert Erikson and Kelly Rader.
The Individual Sources of Economic Nationalism: Evidence from Survey Data, with Carmen Le Foulon. WP No. 3 (December 2007), Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) Working Papers Series.
The Politics of Investment: Partisan Governments, Wages and Employment, with Santiago M. Pinto. Download.
No Entiendo: The Effects of Bilingualism on Hispanic Earnings, with Jeronimo Cortina and Rodolfo de la Garza. Columbia University, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) Working Paper Series No. 2007 | 03.
Does Partisanship Affect the Regulation of Foreign Investment? Download.
Tying Hands vs. Exchanging Hostages. Domestic Coalitions, Political Constraints and FDI. Download.