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Visitas culturales transatlánticas de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX: propuestas y posibilidades metodológicas para su estudio
(Revista de Historia de América (e-ISSN 2663-371X), 2024-01-10)En este ensayo presento algunas reflexiones y propuestas acerca de cómo estudiar “visitas culturales”, noción que he propuesto en un libro colectivo publicado en 2014.La misma intenta ofrecer alternativas y complementa ... -
Political Uncertainty and the Geographic Allocation of Credit: Evidence from Small Businesses
(Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (e-ISSN:1538-4616), 2024-05-23)We investigate how banks change the geographic distribution of their small business loan portfolio when they face political uncertainty in some of the states where they operate. Using exogenous variation in gubernatorial ... -
Entre bibliotecas imaginarias y reales. Borges y la acumulación libresca
(Variaciones Borges (e-ISSN: 1396-0482), 2024-04)En este ensayo, examino la relación entre Jorge Luis Borges, sus bibliotecas imaginarias y las bibliotecas reales en las que le tocó trabajar o dirigir. Me pregunto en qué medida la modernización de la Biblioteca ... -
Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(Economía LACEA Journal (e-ISSN: 1533-6239), 2023-11-22)This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have low levels of cognitive skills. This fact is the result of both low levels of skills among the population and—in the case of numeracy—a gap ... -
The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaCorporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), 2022-06)We study the impact of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity in the context of public school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required education administrators to grant a ... -
The Potential Footprint of Plant- Based Meat Adoption on Leading Crop Producers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-12-30)Plant-based meat (PBM) has the potential to improve the global food supply chain on numerous environmental and societal dimensions. Some of these gains, derived from lower animal meat production, could disrupt the supply ... -
Optimal Carbon Offsets with Heterogeneous Regions
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-02-08)We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and vulnerability to climate change. Carbon emissions from production generate out- put losses - a negative climate externality - and a ...