ANTONIO SPILIMBERGO
Curriculum Vitae - February 2022
WORK ADDRESS:
International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street NW. Washington DC, 20431
tel. (202) 623-6346. Mobile: (202) 280-3418
e-mail: aspilimbe[email protected]g
FIELDS:
Macroeconomics, Development Economics, International Trade, Political Economy
CITIZENSHIP:
Italian with G-4 VISA
PRESENT JOB
Deputy Director, Research Department, IMF October 2019 - present
PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director, Western Hemisphere Department, IMF August 2017-October 2019
Advisor, Assistant Director, and Unit Chief, European Department, IMF February 2010-August 2017
Deputy Division Chief and Assistant to the Director, Research Department, IMF June 2005-January 2010
Economist/Senior Economist, Research and Fiscal Departments, IMF July 1997-June 2005
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank July 1994-July 1997
Teaching Assistant at MIT for Professors Stanley Fischer and Roland Bénabou September 1992-Jan 1994
Research Assistant for Professor Stanley Fischer July 1993
Research Assistant for Professor Olivier Blanchard Summer 1992
Researcher at CESPRI (Research Institute at Universitá Bocconi, Milan-Italy) June 1989-July 1990
EDUCATION:
Graduate: Ph.D. in Economics MIT May 1994
Thesis title: “Three Essays on Trade, Growth and Labor Mobility”
Thesis committee: Professors Olivier Blanchard and Paul Krugman
Undergraduate: B.A., Economics, Universitá Bocconi, Milan, 110/110 cum laude May 1989
HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
MIT Graduate Scholarship September 1990-May 1994
Fellowship from Universitá Bocconi, Milan. Italy June 1993
Grant from World Economic Laboratory (MIT) Summer 1993
Royal Economic Society Conference Grant July 1997
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant (macroeconomics and trade) at Universitá Bocconi, Milan September 1989-July 1990
Teaching Assistant (macroeconomics) at MIT September 1992-Jan. 1994
OTHER AFFILIATIONS:
William Davidson Institute Research Fellow August 2003-present
Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research Fellow September 2003- present
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CreAM) External Fellow April 2009-present
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“Populism and Civil Society”
Economica. Forthcoming.
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 13306; IMF Working Paper
(with Tito Boeri, Prachi Mishra, and Chris Papageorgiou)
“Mobility under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Asymmetric Effects across Gender and Age”
IMF Economic Review. Forthcoming.
Covid Economics, Vol. 62 January 2021.
(with Francesca Caselli, Francesco Grigoli, and Damiano Sandri)
“Brazil: Economic Policies and Institutions in the 21st Century”
Journal of Development Perspectives, Vol. 3, Nos. 1–2, 2020
(with Alfredo Cuevas and Krishna Srinivasan)
“A Dialogue between a Populist and an Economist”
AER Papers & Proceedings. May 2018. Vol. 108: pp. 191–95.
(with Tito Boeri, Prachi Mishra, and Chris Papageorgiou)
“Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Rates in Low-Income Countries: Heterogeneous Panel Estimates”
Journal of Development Economics. November 2014. Vol. 111: pp 117–131
(with Prachi Mishra, Peter Montiel, and Peter Pedroni)
“Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade”
Journal of Economic Geography. January 2014, 14 (1): pp. 179-198
(with Paola Giuliano and Giovanni Tonon)
“Democracy and Reforms”
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. October 2013, 5(4): pp. 179-204.
(with Paola Giuliano and Prachi Mishra)
“Monetary Transmission in low-income countries: effectiveness and policy implications”
IMF Economic Review. September 2012. Vol. 60(2): pp. 270-302
(with Prachi Mishra and Peter Montiel)
“Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World”
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. October 2011. Vol. 3(4): pp. 53-84
(with Prachi Mishra)
“Democracy and Foreign Students”
American Economic Review. Vol. 99(1): pp. 528-543. March 2009.
“Russia’s Regions: Income Volatility, Labor Mobility and Fiscal Policy”
Economics of Transition. January 2009. Vol. 17(1): pp. 97-119
(with Goohoon Kwon)
“Measuring the Performance of Fiscal Policy in Russia”
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Vol. 43(6): pp. 25-44. 2007.
“What Happened to Asian Exports during the Crisis?”
IMF Staff Papers. Vol. 51(1): pp. 72-95. 2004.
(with Rupa Duttagupta)
“Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race”
Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 55: pp 478-497. 2004
(with Luis Ubeda)
“A Model of Multiple Equilibria in Geographic Labor Mobility”
Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 73: pp. 107-123. 2004
(with Luis Ubeda)
“Empirical Models of Short-Term Debt and Crises: Do They Test the Multiple Equilibrium Hypothesis?”
European Economic Review. Vol. 48: pp 379-389. 2004
(with Enrica Detragiache)
“Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption”
Journal of International Economics. Vol. 60(2): pp 337-357. 2003
(with Athanasios Vamvakidis)
“Copper and the Chilean Economy, 1960-1998”
Journal of Policy Reform. Vol. 5(2): pp. 115-126. 2002.
“Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?”
Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 84(1): pp 73-92. February 2002
(with Gordon Hanson and Raymond Robertson)
“Political Economy, Terms of Trade, and Border Enforcement”
Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol. 34(3): pp. 612-638. August 2001.
(with Gordon Hanson)
Reprinted in “Recent Developments in the Economics of Immigration,” edited by B. R. Chiswick and P.
W. Miller. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
“Testing the Hypothesis of Collusive Behavior among OPEC Members”
Energy Economics. Vol. 23(3): pp. 339-53. May 2001.
“Growth and Trade: the North Can Lose”
Journal of Economic Growth. Vol. 5(2): pp 131-46. June 2000. (leading article)
“Business Cycle and Human Capital Investment: Country Evidence on University Student Flow to the
US”
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. Issue 52(1): pp 221-56. June 2000.
(with Plutarchos Sakellaris)
“Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the US-
Mexico Border”
American Economic Review. Vol. 89(5): pp. 1337-57. December 1999.
(with Gordon Hanson)
“Labor Market Integration, Unemployment and Transfers”
Review of International Economics. Vol. 7(4): pp. 641-50. November 1999.
“Income Distribution, Factor Endowments, and Trade Openness”
Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 59: pp. 77-101. June 1999.
(with Juan Luis Londoño and Miguel Székely)
Reprinted in ABCDE-Europe/Oslo proceedings. World Bank (2004); in “The WTO and Poverty and
Inequality” edited by A. Winters. Edward Elgar Publishing, London, UK. 2006; and in “Globalization
and Inequality” edited by B. Milanovic, Edward Elgar Publishing, London, UK. 2012.
“How do the skilled and the unskilled respond to regional shocks? The case of Spain”
IMF Staff Papers Vol. 46(1): pp. 1-17. March 1999.
(with Paolo Mauro)
“De-industrialization and Trade”
Review of International Economics. Vol. 6(3): pp. 450-60. August 1998.
“Investment in Education: Do Economic Volatility and Credit Constraints Matter?”
Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 55: pp. 465-81. March 1998.
(with Karnit Flug and Erik Wachtenheim)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
“Globalization and Resilience”
Finance and Development, May, 2022.
(with P. Mishra)
“An Eventful Two Decades of Reforms, Economic Boom, and a Historic Crisis”
Chapter in the book “Brazil: Boom, Burst, and the Road to Recovery”
Edited by Antonio Spilimbergo and Krishna Srinivasan. Forthcoming.
(With Alfredo Cuevas, Krishna Srinivasan and Alejandro Werner)
“The Refugee Surge in Europe: Economic Challenges”
IMF Staff Discussion Note No. 16/02. January 2016.
(with S. Aiyar, B. Barkbu, N. Batini, H. Berger, E. Detragiache, A. Dizioli, C. Ebeke, H. Lin, L. Kaltani,
S. Sosa, and P. Topalova)
“Wage Moderation in Crises: Policy Considerations and Applications to the Euro Area”
IMF Staff Discussion Note No. 15/22. November 2015.
(with J. Decressin, R. Espinoza, I. Halikias, M. Kumhof, D. Leigh, P. Loungani, P. Medas, S. Mursula,
and T. Xu)
“Labor Markets in Western Europe” chapter in “Getting Back on Track: Growth, Employment, and
Rebalancing in Europe” 2014. Ed. by M. Schindler, H. Berger, B. Bakker, and A Spilimbergo.
(with C. Cheptea, J. Guajardo, I. Halikias, E. Jurzyk, H. Lin, L. Lusinyan)
“Good Policies and Bad Politics”
Finance and Development, March, 2011.
(with P. Giuliano and P. Mishra)
“Structural Reforms and Economic Performance in Advanced and Developing Countries”
IMF Occasional Paper No. 268. July 2009.
(with A. Prati, J. Ostry, L. Christiansen, P. Mishra, C. Papageorgiou, R. Ramcharan, M. Schindler, N.
Spatafora, S. Tokarick, and T. Tressel)
“Fiscal Multipliers”
IMF Staff Position Note 09/11. May 2009.
Available at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2009/spn0911.pdf
(with S. Symansky and M. Schindler).
“Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis”
IMF Staff Position Note 09/10. May 2009.
Available at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2009/spn0910.pdf
(with A. Berg, N. Funke, A. Hajdenberg, V. Lledo, R. Ossowski, M. Schindler, S. Tareq, and I.
Yackovlev)
“Fiscal Policy for the Crisis”
IMF Staff position Note. December 2008.
Available at http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2008/122308. CEPR Discussion paper 7130
.
Short version reprinted in “Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Insights and Analysis from Today’s
Leading Minds” Robert W. Kolb (editor). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. April 2010.
(with O. Blanchard, C. Cottarelli, and S. Symansky).
“Immigration and the U.S. Economy: Labor-Market Impacts, Illegal Entry, and Policy Choices”
in “Immigration and the Welfare State.” Tito Boeri, Gordon Hanson and Barry McCormick (editors).
Pp. 169-285. Oxford University Press. 2002.
(with Gordon Hanson, Kenneth Scheve, Matthew Slaughter)
“Who’s Afraid of the Big Enlargement?”
CEPR Policy Paper No. 7. June 2002.
Summarized in “EU Labor Policies Need Urgent Reform” Transition Newsletter. WB. July-August 2002.
(with G. Bertola, T. Boeri, H. Brücker, F. Coricelli, A. de la Fuente, J. J. Dolado, J. Fitzgerald, P.
Garibaldi, G. Hanson, J. F. Jimeno-Serrano, R. Portes, G. Saint-Paul).
“Perspectives on Regional Unemployment in Europe”
IMF Occasional Paper No. 177. May 1999.
(with Eswar Prasad and Paolo Mauro)
“Mexican Migration and U.S. Policy Options”
in “Immigration in U.S.-Mexican Relations.” Peter Hakim and Nora Lustig (editors).
Brookings Institution and Inter-American Dialogue. Washington. January. 1998.
(with Gordon Hanson)
“The Welfare Implications of Trading Blocs among Countries with Different Endowments”
in “The Regionalization of the World Economy.” Jeffrey Frankel (editor).
NBER Conference Volume. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.1998.
(with Ernesto Stein)
BOOKS:
“Sì vax. Dialogo tra un pragmatico e un non so” 2021
With Tito Boeri (in Italian)
Le Vele. Einaudi.
“Brazil: Boom, Burst, and the way to Recovery” 2019
Edited by Antonio Spilimbergo and Krishna Srinivasan
International Monetary Fund
“Getting Back on Track: Growth, Employment, and Rebalancing in Europe” 2014
Edited by Martin Schindler, Helge Berger, Bas B. Bakker, and Antonio Spilimbergo
International Monetary Fund
COMMENTS and REVIEWS:
Review of the book “Long-term Consequences of the Great Recession on the Lives of Europeans” Agar
Brugiavini and G. Weber (eds). Oxford University Press 2013.
Journal of Economic Literature. June 2015.
Comments on the paper “Shifting Confidence in Home Ownership: the Great Recession” by Anat Bracha
and J. Jamison.
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. Vol. 12(3). “Long-term effects of the Great Recession.” 2012.
Comments on the report “Quantifying the Impact of Highly Skilled Emigration on Developing Countries”
by Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport. Proceedings of the fRDB Conference on “Brain Drain and
Brain Gain.”
Review of the book “International Migration in the age of Crisis and Globalization.” Andrés Solimano.
Cambridge University Press. Journal of International Economics. 2011.
Review of the book “Higher Education and Development” Justin Yifu Lin and Boris Pleskovic (editors).
World Bank 2008. Journal of Economic Literature. December 2009.
Comments on the paper “Notes on the Political Economy of Structural Reforms” by Val Koromzay.
Proceedings of the KDI conference “Making Reform Happen: Comparative Perspectives and Analytical
Approache
s.
” Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. Forthcoming.
Review of the books “Free Trade Today” by Jagdish Bhagwati and “Free Trade under Fire” by Douglas
A. Irwin. Princeton University Press. Finance and Development. Vol. 39(4): pp53-4. December 2002.
Review of the book “Migration. The Controversies and the Evidence.” Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo,
and Klaus Zimmermann (editors). Cambridge University Press. Journal of International Economics.
Vol. 52(1): pp.197-99. October 2000.
Comments on the paper “New Directions for Managing US-Mexican Migration” by Demetrios
Papademetriou in “Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration in North America.” OECD
Proceedings. Paris 1998.
WORKING PAPERS:
“Preferences for Reforms: Endowments vs. Beliefs”
January 2022. (with Romain Duval, Yi Ji, Chris Papageorgiou, Ippei Shibata)
IMF Working Paper. CEPR Discussion paper
“E-commerce during Covid: Stylized facts from 47 economies”
January 2022. (with Joel Alcedo Alberto Cavallo Bricklin Dwyer Prachi Mishra)
IMF Working Paper 22/19. NBER Working Paper 29729. CEPR Discussion paper
“Measuring U.S. Core Inflation: The Stress Test of COVID-19”
December 2021. (with Laurence M Ball, Daniel Leigh, Prachi Mishra
IMF Working Paper 21/291. NBER Working Paper 29609. CEPR Discussion paper 17002
“Economic Policy Uncertainty in Turkey and Its Macroeconomic Impact”
December 2018. (with Fah Jirasavetakul)
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 13353; IMF Working Paper
“Crises and Liquidity: Evidence and Interpretation”
IMF Working Paper 01/2. October 2001. (with Enrica Detragiache)
“Adjustment to Regional Shocks in Spain”
IMF Working Paper 01/17. July 2002. (with Paolo Mauro)
“Structural Reforms and Regional Convergence”
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8951. IMF Working Paper 12/106 (with Natasha Xingyuan Che)
RESEARCH FEATURED IN:
L’activité citoyenne, une alternative aux partis populistes? (Le Monde, December 1st, 2018), The Youth
Unemployment Bomb (Businessweek, February 2
nd
, 2011), Credit Crisis Creates Lost Generation
(Businessweek, January 21 2010), Growing Up in a Long Boom (Mint, January 19
th
2010), The Recession
Generation (Newsweek, January 9 2010), Recession Resolutions, like new year's, may be hard to keep
(The New York Times, December 4 2009), A Generation in the balance (The New York Times, November
29 2009), Great Recession may leave a lifelong mark on Gen Y (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 27
2009), Will recession forever scar young investors? (Smart Money, October 23 2009), Lucky break: how
a recession can change our work ethic (The Washington Post, September 20 2009), How recessions shape
beliefs (The Boston Globe, September 13 2009), Recessions can have a lasting impact on the young
(Time, September 11 2009), The Recession Mentality (The New York Times, September 10 2009), The
credit crunch: bad for your pocket, worse for your psyche (Financial Times, August 29 2009).
REFEREEING
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
American Economic Review. American Political Science Review. Bulletin of Economic Research.
Canadian Journal of Economics. CESifo Economic Studies. Contemporary Economic Policy. Eastern
Economic Journal. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Economic Inquiry. Economic Journal.
Economica. Economics Letters. Economics of Education Review. Economics of Transition. Educational
Research and Reviews. Elsevier Science. Empirical Economics. Energy Journal. European Economic
Review. European Journal of Comparative Economics. Il Giornale degli Economisti. IMF Economic
Review. International Economic Review. International Migration Review. International tax and Public
Finance. International Journal of Business and Economics. Journal of Applied Economics. Journal of
Asian Economics. Journal of Comparative Economics. Journal of Conflict Resolution. Journal of
Development Economics. Journal of Economic Growth. Journal of Economic Literature. Journal of
Economics and Statistics. Journal of Economic Integration. Journal of Economic Literature. Journal of
the Asia Pacific Economy. Journal of the European Economic Association. Journal of Human Resources.
Journal of International Economics. Journal of International Money and Finance. Journal of
International Trade and Economic Development. Journal of Labor Economics. Journal of Policy Reform.
Journal of Population Economics. Journal of Public Economics. Journal of Refugee Study. Journal of the
Royal Statistics Society. Journal of Urban Economics. National Research Council. National Agency for
the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes. Labour. Oxford Economic Papers. Oxford
University Press. Papers in Regional Science. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Regional Science and
Urban Economics. Research in Economics. Review of Development Economics. Review of Economic
Studies. Review of Economics and Statistics. Review of Income and Wealth. Review of International
Economics. Rivista di Politica Economica. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal. The World Bank Economic Review. World Development.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Editorial Board of the IMF Staff Papers 2003-2009
Editor of the IMF Research Bulletin 2005-2008
Member of the Editorial Board of the IMF Economic Review 2009-2014
OTHER EXPERIENCES
Member the Research Advisory Board under the Central Bank of the Russian Federation 2017-ongoing
Co-chair of CEPR-fRDB-IMF conference on “Structural Reform without Prejudice” 2009
Organized ACES annual meetings in San Francisco 2009
Chair of the 8
th
IMF Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, IMF 2007
Visiting scholar at Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung. Bonn. Germany. September 1998
Translation of the book “Protectionism” by J. Bhagwati from English into Italian. 1990
COUNTRY EXPERIENCE (official missions with IMF or IADB)
Mission chief: Brazil, Italy, Russia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
Other missions: Costa Rica, Chile, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Spain.
LANGUAGES
Italian, English, and Spanish (fluent), Russian and Portuguese (good), French (intermediate), Turkish
(beginner)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS and CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2021
Healing Patient Europe. Pontifical Academy of Science
Vatican City. October
2019
Workshop on “Causes and Consequences of Populism” Bocconi University, April
Festival dell’Economia; Trento. Italy. (in Italian). May.
2018
AEA Meetings, Philadelphia, January.
CEMLA annual conference, Mexico City, November
2017
XXVI International Financial Congress, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July.
Canadian Economic Association, Antigonish, Canada, June.
Panel, Immigration, Refuges and Citizenship, Canada, Ottawa, May
Conference: Questioning Crisis: Forced Migration in Theory and Practice. McGill University. March
2016
Festival dell’Economia; Trento. Italy. (in Italian). June.
German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Berlin, June
2014
Sochi International Investment Forum, Sochi, Russia, September.
International Banking Congress, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June.
Festival dell’Economia; Trento. Italy. (in Italian). May.
Presentation of the book “Jobs and Growth: Supporting the European Recovery” in Brussels (EPC),
Madrid (Fedea), Rome (Bank of Italy), Warsaw (Prime Minister’s office), Berlin (DIW), Frankfurt
(ECB), and Vienna (JVI). January / February
2013
Gaidar Forum, Moscow, Russia. January.
2011
“Long-Term Effects of the Great Recession,” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, October.
“Which Reforms for Europe?” Bocconi University. Milan, June.
2010
Seminar on the Political Economy of Crisis-Induced Reforms. IMF. Paris, December.
3
rd
Migration and Development Conference. Paris, France, September.
Political Economy of Economic Development. Manresa, Spain, April.
2009
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, November.
“What’s Wrong with Modern Macroeconomics?” CESifo Conference, Munich, Germany, November.
IRES Research Seminar; Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, November.
Second International Conference on Migration and Development, World Bank, September.
“Migration in Central America” conference by FLACSO and OECD. San José, Costa Rica, June.
“Understanding the Political Economy of Economic Reforms” Seoul, Korea. June.
“Immigration and Global Development” Harvard Institute for International Development. DC, May.
IX Conference Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti on “Brain Drain and Brain Gain.” Pisa, Italy. May.
“Dislocations and Interventions to Boost Employment in a Global Downturn” Economists’ Forum, WB
XXIX Meeting. Latin American Network of Central Banks, IADB, Washington, April.
“Maintaining Productive Employment during Times of Crisis.” WB. Washington. April.
WB Labor Market Core Course. World Bank; March.
“Structural Reforms without Prejudice” Joint conference CEPR-fRDB-IMF. Milan, March.
University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Economics. Ljubljana, Slovenia, March.
Second Meeting on the “Transnationality of Migrants” Louvain-La-Nueve, Belgium; January.
AEA meetings, San Francisco; January.
2008
Conference on “Brain Drain,” Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israel. December.
George Mason University, Virginia. October.
Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Perú. (in Spanish). August.
First Conference on Migration and Development; Lille, France. June.
Festival dell’Economia; Trento. Italy. (in Italian). May.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD; March.
Conference on Remittances and Macroeconomics; Federal Reserve. Atlanta, GA; February.
AEA meetings, New Orleans; January.
2007
First Meeting of “Transnationality of Migrants” Riga, Latvia; October.
World Bank, October.
“NBER Summer Institute” Cambridge, MA; July.
“Unemployment and labor markets in transition economies” EBRD, LBS; London, June.
“Migration and economic integration”, Bari, Italy; June.
Center for Global Development, Washington, DC; May.
Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC; January.
AEA meetings, Chicago; January.
2006
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; October.
“The Economy of Diversity, Migration, and Culture” Bologna, Italy; September.
“NBER Summer Institute” Cambridge, MA; July.
“NBER Political Economy Working Group Meeting” Cambridge, MA; May.
“Labor and Capital Flows in Europe Following Enlargement” Warsaw, Poland; January.
2005
“Labor Markets, Fiscal Policy and Structural Reform” Copenhagen; June.
2
nd
Workshop on “Globalization and Contracts: Trade, Finance and Development.” Paris, France; April.
2004
University of Rome III at Tor Vergata; Rome, Italy, October.
“A Decade of Development Thinking” Inter-American Development Bank; Washington, D.C.;
September.
“EU Accession: Impact on Employment.” London Business School; London, UK; July.
CEFIR. Moscow. Russia; June.
Fiscal Federalism in Russia. World Bank. Washington DC; May.
Rules of Origin in RTA: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches. IADB, Washington DC; February.
2003
Asia Crisis V Conference, Chuncheon Korea; December.
George Washington University, Washington, DC; October.
World Bank Trade Group. Washington DC; October.
University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI; September.
XVIII Annual Congress of the European Economic Association. Stockholm, Sweden; August.
LVIII Annual Meetings of the European Econometrics Society. Stockholm, Sweden; August.
CEPR/WDI Annual International Conference on Transition Economics, Budapest; July.
New York Federal Reserve, New York; March.
2003 AEA Meetings. Washington DC; January.
2002
Immigration Policy and Welfare System. William Davidson Institute. Washington DC; December.
University of Missouri. Columbia, MO; September.
XVII Annual Congress of the European Economic Association. Venice, Italy; August.
Conference for 100 years of Bocconi University. Milan. Italy; June.
IMF-World Bank joint seminar. Washington DC; March.
World Bank and USDA symposium on “Middle Class and Middle Income.” Washington DC; January.
2001
World Bank Conference. “From Natural Resources to the Knowledge Economy” San Salvador;
November.
III Conference Fondazione Debenedetti on “Immigration Policy and the Welfare State” Trieste, Italy;
June.
CEPR Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics. Ma’ale Hachamisha Kibbutz, Israel; May.
2000
Universitá di Bologna. Bologna, Italy; December.
First Annual IMF Research Conference, Washington, DC; November.
Murphy Institute Conference on the Political Economy of Migration, New Orleans, LA; March.
1999
NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA; July.
Carnegie-Rochester Public Policy Conference, Rochester, NY; April.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD; March.
1998
Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI). Bonn, Germany; September.
XIII Annual Meetings of the European Economic Association. Berlin, Germany; September.
LIII Annual Meetings of the European Econometrics Society. Berlin, Germany; August.
OECD Seminar on “Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration” (panel), Mexico City; January.
1997
Universidad San Marcos, Lima, Perú; December 1997.
NBER X Inter-American Seminar in Santiago, Chile; November.
Second Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Bogotà, Colombia;
October.
NBER Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA; July.
Conference on Mercosur, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; May.
George Washington University, Washington, DC; April.
Harvard Institute of International Development, Cambridge, MA; February.
1996
International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.; October.
First Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Mexico City, Mexico;
October.
World Bank, Washington, DC; October.
Latin American Meetings of the Econometrics Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; August.
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.; May.
1995
NBER Conference on Regionalization of the World Economy in Woodstock, New Hampshire; October.
Annual Meeting of the Econometrics Society in Tokyo, Japan; August.
1994
NBER VII Inter-American Seminar in Mexico City, Mexico; November.
Latin American Meetings of the Econometrics Society in Caracas, Venezuela; August.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; April.
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.; March.
Brown University, Rhode Island; March.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; March.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; February.
1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; November.
