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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
"The Role of Importers and Exporters in the Determination of the U.S.
Tariff Preferences Granted to Latin America", Journal of
Development Economics, forthcoming.
"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.
(Revise and Resubmit)
"Substitution and Protectionism: Latin America's Trade Policy and
Imports from China and India", Policy Research Working Paper #4188,
World Bank. (Revise and Resubmit)
"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)
"An Implication of
Government Acting in its Citizens' Interest" (with Earl L. Grinols),
working paper.
"Substitutability and Trade Protection in the
U.S." (with Gerald Willmann), working paper.
"Sharing Reform
Gains: Selling Politics to Buy Statesmanship" (with Earl L. Grinols),
work in progress
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