About
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough, cross-appointed to the Rotman School of Management. In the 2025–26 academic year, I am a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, DC.
My research explores how barriers in labor and capital markets influence firms’ production and trade decisions, and how these factors shape economic growth and the impact of industrial and trade policies, particularly in developing and emerging economies.
I am an Editor of Economia, the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), and a Research Affiliate of the IGC and the Forward Society Lab.
Research interests: International Trade • Firm Dynamics • Development Economics
Contact: pamela.medinaquispe@rotman.utoronto.ca • Rotman School of Management, 105 St George St, Office 8042, Toronto, ON M5S 3E6
News
- 2026 Paper New working paper: “The Organization of Work: Time Use and the Returns to Specialization” (with Julieta Caunedo and Claudia Macaluso).
- 2026 Paper “Trade in Appliances, Household Production, and Labor Force Participation” is published in the Journal of International Economics (Trade and Uneven Development Special Issue).
- 2025 Paper “Labor Market Power, Self-Employment and Development” is published in the American Economic Review.
- 2025 Award Awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the Peruvian Economic Association.
- 2025 Visit Visiting Scholar at SAIS — Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC (Fall 2025).