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Education
Ph.D in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2005
MS in Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil) 1999
BS in Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 1997
Research Interests
Preferential Trade Agreements
Political Economy of Trade
Spreading the Gains from Trade
Publications
"Substitution and Protectionism: Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India" (with Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga and Gerald Willmann), World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming.
"Rules of Origin and Gains from Trade" (with Earl L. Grinols), Economic Theory, forthcoming.
"The Role of Importers and Exporters in the Determination of the U.S. Tariff Preferences Granted to Latin America", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 94, pp. 207-219.
"Industrial Targeting in Free Trade Areas with Policy Independence" (with Earl L. Grinols), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 41 (2008), Issue 3, pp. 796-816.
"An Enhancement of Modern Free Trade Area Theory" (with Earl L. Grinols), Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 59 (2007), No. 2, pp. 219-225.
"Market Access for Sale" (with Hiau Looi Kee and Marcelo Olarreaga), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 81 (2007), Issue 2, pp. 79-94.
"Economic Integration without Policy Coordination: The Case of Mercosur" (with Werner Baer and Tiago Cavalcanti), Emerging Markets Review, Vol. 3 (2002), No. 3, pp. 269-291.
Working Papers
"The Customs Union issue: Why do we observe so few of them?" (with Giovanni Facchini and Gerald Willmann), CESifo working paper #2426. (Submitted)
"The Effect of Asymmetries in Relative Factor Endowments on International Trade" (with Cullen F. Goenner), working paper. (Submitted)
"Substitutability and Trade Protection in the U.S." (with Gerald Willmann), working paper.
"Intervention Efficiency, Incentive Symmetry, and Information" (with Earl L. Grinols), working paper.
"Sharing Reform Gains: Selling Politics to Buy Statesmanship" (with Earl L. Grinols), work in progress. |
