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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
"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
"Rules of Origin and Gains from Trade" (with Earl L. Grinols), Development Studies Working Paper #249, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano. (Submitted)
"Substitution and Protectionism: Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India" (with Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Gerald Willmann), Policy Research Working Paper #4188, World Bank. (Revise and Resubmit)
"The Role of Importers and Exporters in the Determination of the U.S. Tariff Preferences Granted to Latin America", Policy Research Working Paper #3518, World Bank. (Revise and Resubmit)
"The Customs Union issue: Why do we observe so few of them?" (with Giovanni Facchini and Gerald Willmann), working paper.
"Substitutability and Trade Protection in the U.S." (with Gerald Willmann), working paper.
"Transition to Market and Stepwise Pareto Improvements" (with Earl L. Grinols), working paper. |
