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EMPLOYMENT

2011-present: Visitor, Economics Department, London School of Economics

2005-present: Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

2003: Consultant, IDB.

1999-2000: Advisor, Argentine Ministry of Economy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD. in Economics (2005), supervised by Daron Acemoglu, Olivier Blanchard, and Ricardo Caballero.

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
M.A. Economics (1999).

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
B.S. in Economics (1996).

RESEARCH INTEREST

Macroeconomics, International Economics, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy

PUBLICATIONS

Persistence of Dollarization after Price Stabilization, Journal of Monetary Economics 56 (2009), pp. 979-989.

The Role of Multinational Production in a Risky Environment with Natalia Ramondo, Journal of International Economics 81 (2010), pp. 240-252.

Financial Safety Net and Regional Integration, in Integracion y Comercio 20, Inter-American Development Bank, with Jose Luis Machinea.

WORK IN PROGRESS

The Proximity-Concentration Tradeoff under Uncertainty, with Natalia Ramondo and Kim Ruhl, Revised and Resubmit REStud.

Risk Aversion and Wealth: Evidence from Person-to-Person Lending Portfolios, with Daniel Paravisini and Enrichetta Ravina.

Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data, with Daniel Paravisini, Daniel Wolfenzon, and Philipp Schnabl.

Horizontal vs. Vertical FDI: Revisiting Evidence from U.S. Multinationals, with Natalia Ramondo and Kim Ruhl.

Tradeoff between International and Domestic Risk Sharing in the Presence of Sovereign risk.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

London School of Economics, Macroeconomics (Core MSc) and Economic Policy Analysis (undergraduate). 2011

Columbia Business School, Global Economic Environment (Core MBA). 2006-2011

MIT , Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Teaching Assistant: 2002-2004

UBA , Argentina, Monetary Economics (undergraduate), Lecturer: 1996-1999

UTDT , Argentina, Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Teaching Assistant: 1997-1998

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Rothschild Caesarea Center Annual Academic Conference Best Paper Award, 2011

Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business Research Grant, 2011

Estenssoro/Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2002

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella , Graduate Fellowship, 1997-1998

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Honors Magna Cum Laude, 1996