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LSM: A DSGE model for Luxembourg (with Szabolcs Deák, Lionel Fontagné, and Massimiliano Marcellino), Economic Modelling (2011)

Luxembourg is a small open economy with a set of particular features, including rather limited...

 

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Specialization Patterns and the Factor Bias of Technology (with Alejandro Cuñat), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (2007)

Development accounting exercises based on an aggregate production function find technology is biased in favor...

 

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Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade? (with Alejandro Cuñat), The Economic Journal (2007)

We present a dynamic comparative advantage model in which moderate reductions in import tariffs can...

 

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Convergence Across Italian Regions and the Role of Technological Catch-Up, Topics in Macroeconomics (2006)

This paper suggests that the main (and possibly unique) source of beta- and sigma-convergence in...

 

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Hecksher-Ohlin Business Cycles (with Alejandro Cuñat), Review of Economic Dynamics (2004)

This paper introduces Heckscher–Ohlin trade features into a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, and...

 

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Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade (with Alejandro Cuñat), Review of Economic Dynamics (2004)

We construct a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model in which the initial distribution of production factors across...

 

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Non-Walrasian Labor Markets and Real Business Cycles, Review of Economic Dynamics (2001)

The standard Real Business Cycle literature mainly focuses on Walrasian models designed to fit the...

 

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Human capital and international real business cycles, Review of Economic Dynamics (2000)

Standard international real business cycle models are generally unable to replicate the observed comovements of...

 

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Importazione di beni intermedi e trasferimento della tecnologia: un approccio di crescita endogena, Economia politica (Journal of analytical and institutional economics) (1999)

This paper studies the relationships between imports of technologically advanced intermediate goods, technology transfers, and...

 

Working Papers

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Tax Evasion under Market Incompleteness, IGIER Working Paper #378 (2011)

Empirical evidence suggests that the distribution of income and its composition play an important role...

 

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Tax Cuts in Open Economies (with Alejandro Cuñat and Szabolcs Deák), IGIER Working Paper #332 (2008)

A reduction in income tax rates generates substantial dynamic responses within the framework of the...