About
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough, cross-appointed to the Rotman School of Management.
My research sits at the intersection of international trade, firm dynamics, and development economics. I study how barriers in labor and capital markets shape firms’ production and trade decisions, and through them, economic growth and the effectiveness of industrial and trade policies in developing and emerging economies.
My work pairs causal reduced-form evidence from rich microdata with theoretical modeling and structural estimation, to quantify mechanisms and evaluate policy counterfactuals.
Appointments & Editorial Roles
- Editor, Economia, the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)
- Research Affiliate, International Growth Centre (IGC)
- Research Affiliate, Forward Society Lab, University of Toronto
I also co-organize Seminario MAP, a virtual applied microeconomics seminar connecting researchers working on Peru and Latin America. Join us!
News
- 2026 Paper New working paper: “Managerial Incentives and the Cost of Protectionism” (with Cristina Tello-Trillo).
- 2026 Grant Awarded a SSHRC Institutional Grant (SIG) for “Time and Technology on the Job: A United States Survey Wave” (with Julieta Caunedo and Claudia Macaluso).
- 2026 Grant “Monopsony Power and Structural Change” (with Francesco Amodio and Monica Morlacco) was selected for funding by STEG (Structural Transformation and Economic Growth) under its 11th Small Research Grant call.
- 2026 Award Awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the Peruvian Economic Association for the second consecutive year.
- 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.