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WORKING PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

The Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Laws on the Sales in Bars and Restaurants in Argentina (09/08: 210Kb in PDF format) with Mirta Molinari and Mario Virgolini. September, 2008. Forthcoming in CVD Prevention and Control

Water Expansions in Shantytowns: Health and Savings (03/07: 242Kb in PDF format) with Sebastián Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky. Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper R-527, March 2007. Forthcoming in Economica

Why Have Poverty and Income Inequality Increased so Much? Argentina 1991-2001 (05/06: 80Kb in PDF format) with Alicia Menendez in Journal of Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol 55 No. 1, October 2006.

Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination in Mercosur (09/03: 573Kb in PDF format) with José Fanelli in Lorenzo, F editor: Fundamentos para la Cooperación Macroeconómica en el MERCOSUR Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editora Iberoamericana, 2006.

Economía del Control del Tabaco en los Países del Mercosur y Estados Asociados: Argentina, 1996-2004. (2006: 1289Kb in PDF format)Washington DC, OPS, 2006.

Global Factors and Emerging Market Spreads (12/05: 556Kb in PDF format) with Eduardo Levy Yeyati. Forthcoming in The Economic Journal

Market Access Gains in US and EU's Agriculture Import Market: Estimates Based on Bilateral Trade (06/04: 246Kb in PDF format) with Eduardo Bianchi y Pablo Sanguinetti.

A New Test for the Success of Inflation Targeting (04/03: 102Kb in PDF format) with Verónica Cohen-Sabbán and Andrew Powell

Inference and Estimation in Small Sample Dynamic Panel Data Models (02/03: 291Kb in PDF format) with Sebastián Galiani

Public University in Argentina: Subsidizing the Rich? (04/01: 94Kb in PDF format) with Alicia Menendez in Economics of Education Review vol 21/4 pp 341-351. May 2002.

"Higher Education Subsidies in Argentina" with Alicia Menendez in International Higher Education. No. 22, winter 2001

"Comercio, Régimen Cambiario y Volatilidad. Una Visión desde la Argentina de la Coordinación Macroeconómica en el Mercosur" with Jose Fanelli and Saul Keifman, in Coordinación de Políticas Macroeconómicas en el Mercosur. Siglo XXI editores, April, 2001 (in spanish).

"Comportamiento Macroeconómico, Empleo y Distribución de Ingresos. Argentina en los años Noventa," with Roberto Frenkel, in Liberalización, Desigualdad y Pobreza: América Latina y el Caribe en los 90, Ganuza, Enrique, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Lance Taylor y Rob Vos editores. Eudeba-PNUD-Naciones Unidas, June, 2001 (in spanish).

La Evolución de la Distribución del Ingreso Familiar en Argentina. Un Análisis de sus Determinantes (05/00: 107Kb in PDF format) with Oscar Altimir and Luis Beccaria (in spanish).

A Threshold Unit Root (TUR) Model for Interest Rates (12/99, in PDF and PS format), with Jesús Gonzalo.

Liberalización del Balance de Pagos. Efectos sobre el Crecimiento, el Empleo y los Ingresos en Argentina. (4/99: 746 Kb. PDF format) with Roberto Frenkel.

Balance of Payments Liberalization. Effects on Growth and Employment in Argentina (1/99: 565 Kb. PDF format) with Roberto Frenkel. Presented at the CEPA's Globalization and Social Policy Conference. New York, January 1999.

Threshold Unit Root Models (revised version 11/98, in PDF and PS format), with Jesús Gonzalo, paper presented at the Latin American meetings of the Econometric Society, Santiago, Chile (August, 1997) and at the winter meetings of the North American Econometric Society, Chicago, USA (January 1998).

Econometric Implications of Non-Exact Present Value Models (revised version 6/98, in PDF and PS format) with Jesús Gonzalo. Presented at the North American meetings of the Econometric Society, New Orleans (January, 1997).

A Non-Exact Present Value Model For Farmland Prices Behavior (6/97, in PDF and PS format) with Jesús Gonzalo.

Convertibilidad, Volatilidad y Estabilidad Macroeconómica en Argentina (6/98: 138 Kb. PDF format) with José Fanelli.

Apertura, Productividad y Empleo. Argentina en los años 90 (5/98: 265 Kb. PDF format) with Roberto Frenkel.

"Wage Dispersion and Trade in Argentina: 1974-1994" (1996) with Alicia Menendez and Donald Robbins, in Empleo y Distribución del Ingreso en América Latina, Hemos Avanzado?. Mauricio Cárdenas Ed.