Working Papers

A Search-Based Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions (ⓡ Semih Üslü) IMF WP No. 2025/239 [Revise & Resubmit at the European Economic Review]

Demographic reversal and Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America (with Camila Casas and Nicolas Gomez Parra) [Draft coming soon]

Beyond Tariffs: Infrastructure Gaps and Trade in Latin America (with Rina Bhattacharya, Rafael Parente, and Sam Pienknagura); based on The Dynamics of Trade Integration and Fragmentation in Latin America (with Rafael Machado Parente) IMF WP; IMF Blog; Bloomberg Línea; The Economist [Reject & Resubmit]

Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean, with Sophia Chen, Ryu Matsuura, and Joana Pereira, IMF WP [Under Review]

Inferring Capital-Labor Substitution from Firm Size Distortions [Under Revision]


Work in Progress

Import Intermediaries, Inventories, and Investment (with David Kohn, Nan Li, and others)

The Cost of Economic Cartels in LAC (with Ludovic Panon)

Informality, Labor Slack, and the Phillips Curve in Latin America (with Camila Casas and Ana Paula Nothen Ruhe)

Eastern Caribbean Migrations in the XXIth Century, a Macroeconomic Perspective

Migration, Knowledge Diffusion, and Development in Small Open Economies

Natural Resource Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Empirical Analysis (with Antoine Arnoud and Abraham Lartey)

Greening the IMF Quotas (with Shan He and Mengxue Wang)

Reciprocal Climate Commitments (with Rishi Bhandary)

Other Publications

Quel est l’impact du pouvoir d’appreciation des juges sur les indemnites de licenciement? (with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, and Bérengère Patault), Droit Social, Sept. 2022

Do French companies under-report their workforce at 49 employees to get around the law? (with P. Askenazy, T. Breda, and V. Pecheu), IPP Policy Brief n°82

Replication

In July 2023, we organized the first Bank-Fund Replication Games in partnership with the Institute for Replication