I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management of the London School of Economics. I am also a Research Affiliate at CEPR, CESifo, and CEP.

My main fields of research are International Trade, Labo(u)r Economics, and Development Economics.

Curriculum Vitae. Email: [email protected].

Working papers

• The 2025 Trade War: Dynamic Impacts Across U.S. States and the Global Economy with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Feodora Teti, Mauricio Ulate, and Roman D. Zarate. [Tariff Data]. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics.
  • Link to VoxEU column.
• Responsible Sourcing? Evidence from Costa Rica with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Ben Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and Isabela Manelici. Revise and Resubmit (2nd round) at the American Economic Review.
  • Links to VoxDev summary, VoxEU column, Trade Talks episode, WTO World Trade Report 2024.
• The Effects of Multinationals on Workers: Evidence from Costa Rican Microdata with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña and Isabela Manelici.
• The Anatomy of Domestic Production Networks: Evidence from Costa Rica with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Mariany Fuentes, José Ignacio González, and Isabela Manelici.
  • Supersedes “Costa Rican Production Network: Stylized Facts” (2018)

Peer-reviewed publications

• The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña and Isabela Manelici. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022. Vol 137(3), pp. 1495–1552. Online Appendix.
  • Links to VoxDev summary, IGC summary, “The Visible Hand” Podcast, Faculti interview.
• Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions with Mauricio Ulate and Roman D. Zarate. Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025. Vol 149. Working paper version.
• Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare and Mauricio Ulate. Journal of Political Economy, 2026. Vol 134(2), pp. 626-664. Working paper version
  • Link to VoxEU column.

Other publications

• VoxDevLit on “Foreign Direct Investment and Development” (w/ Alviarez, Boudreau, Dardati, Fan, Farrokhi, Garcia-Lembergman, Garetto, Gu, Hale, Hemous, Limodio, Manelici, Martin, Morales, Pandalai-Nayar, Pavcnik, Pellegrina, Ramondo, and Vezina). VoxDevLit, 13(1), February 2025

Selected work in progress

• Good Suppliers and Bad Suppliers with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Arsenii Shcherbov, and Paolo Zacchia.
• The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions with Isabela Manelici, Mauricio Ulate, and Roman D. Zarate.
• Managing Innovation in Firms with Ingrid Haegele, Isabela Manelici, and Francis Wong.