Research Interests

The economic development of Latin America and East Asia and their integration within the World Economy. In particular, the study of these economies from the point of view of their economic history, macroeconomics, international trade and international finance. 

Recent Papers

• "How to create a financial crisis by trying to avoid one: the Brazilian 1999-financial collapse as "Macho-Monetarism" can't handle "Bubble Thy Neighbour" levels of inflows", Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, CWPE 1301
• "Was Brazil's recent growth acceleration the world's most overrated boom?", Cambridge Working Paper, CWPE 1248
• "How the full opening of the capital account to highly liquid financial markets led Latin America to two and a half cycles of ‘mania, panic and crash’", Cambridge Working Paper, CWPE 1201
• "Homogeneous middles vs. heterogeneous tails, and the end of the ‘Inverted-U’: the share of the rich is what it’s all about", Cambridge Working Paper, CWPE 1111
• "Why has productivity growth stagnated in most Latin-American countries since the neo-liberal reforms?", Cambridge Working Paper, CWPE 1030
• "The Revenge of the Market on the Rentiers: Why neo-liberal Reports of the end of history turned out to be premature", Cambridge Working Paper, CWPE 0927