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About Alberto Behar

I am currently working on Costa Rica, including designing aspects of its programs with the IMF and covering fiscal issues, the climate agenda, and capacity development. I was previously in the risk unit of the International Monetary Fund, where I led strategic foresight (including scenario planning and policy gaming) and supported the macroeconomic risk work that feeds into country documents. I also worked on oil exporting countries. Research specializations include exchange rate adjustment, gravity models of trade, and interactions between skilled and unskilled labour (including endogenous skill biased technical change in developing countries). I have recently been applying fixed effects counterfactual estimators of treatment effects in macroeconomic datasets (e.g., the effects of crises on the income balance of the current account).

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Present Faculty Member, International Monetary Fund
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Articles in refereed journals (22)

Books (2)

Book chapters (8)