Research

Working and Discussion Papers

• Widening the gap? Female labor market participation during COVID-19 (with Vania Salas, Noelia Paez)


• The effect of switching costs in the Peruvian Mobile Phone Market [pdf]


• Competition with endogenous and exogenous switching costs [pdf]


• Milking the milkers: a study on buyer power in the dairy market of Peru (with Jose Tavera) [pdf] (IIOC 2018, AEA 2018 [Poster Session] )


• Competition and government intervention in Romania: an assessment with focus on product market regulation and competitive neutrality (with Georgiana Pop and Georgeta Gavriloiu and Mariana Iotty)

Research in Progress

• Price dispersion and competition in retail electric markets (with Miaomiao Rimmer)


• Information disclosure under platform competition (with Martin Paredes)

Publications

• Paving the Road for Competitive Green Hydrogen Hubs: Does Chile Have a Chance? , Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy - Center for Energy Studies. 2023. (with Benigna Leiss, Lindley Maxwell and Caroline White-Nockleby) [pdf]


• Essays on Consumer Inertia, PhD Thesis, Stony Brook University, Department of Economics, August. 2018. [pdf]


• The dynamics of Peruvians who do not study or work: who they are, how are they doing and how they have changed , Apuntes, Vol. 44 Number 80, Research Center - Universidad del Pacifico. 2017 (with Jose Tavera and Ramiro Malaga) [pdf]


• Youth who neither work nor study: The Peruvian case, Revista Economia, Vol. 37 Number 74, Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. 2014 (with Ramiro Malaga and Jose Tavera)[in Spanish] [pdf]


• Assessing competition policy on economic development, Revista Economia, Vol. 36 Number 71, Department of Economics-Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. 2013 [pdf]


• Risk mitigation in vehicle parking lots: an analysis from the incentives perspective , Journal of Competition and the Intellectual Property, Year 5 Number 9, Spring 2009, INDECOPI, Lima. 2009 [in Spanish] [pdf]


• Competition policy in APEC Economies , Punto de Equilibrio, Quarterly News Magazine published by the Research Center of the Universidad del Pacifico (CIUP), pp 8-9. 2008 [in Spanish]


• Copyright Collecting Societies: the Peruvian case , Journal of Competition and the Intellectual Property, Year 3 Number 5, Spring 2007, INDECOPI, Lima. 2007 (with José Tavera) [in Spanish] [pdf]


• Institutional factors and port efficiency in Latin America, Regulatory Agency of Transport Infrastructure Investment (OSITRAN)- Department of Regulation; and INDECOPI – Department of Economic Studies, Discussion paper Nro 003-2006/GEE, Lima. 2006. (with Lincoln Flor) [in Spanish]

Book chapters

• Governance and Climate Finance in the Developing World , Forthcoming in Chapter 7: Climate Finance: supporting a sustainable energy transition , Springer Nature, 2024. (with ByeogHak Choe) [pdf]


• Romania’s Product Market Regulation and State Ownership and Competitive Neutrality, In: Markets and People: Romania Country Economic Memorandum, International Development in Focus, Chapter 2 and 3, Washington, DC: World Bank Group. 2020. (with Georgiana Pop and Georgeta Gavriloiu and Mariana Iotty)


• Lessons from the introduction and implementation of competition policy in economies at different stages of development: the case of APEC economies, In: APEC Economic Policy Report 2008. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation - APEC, APEC Economic Committee, Chapter 2, study developed by INDECOPI for the APEC Economic Report 2008. (with Jose Tavera and Fernando Caceres)


• Study on the competition conditions in financial industry in Peru, In:Competition conditions in selected industries: Health services industry, Fuel industry and Financial industry, INDECOPI - Department of Economic Studies. Program on Competition and Consumer Protection Policies for Latin America of the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD-COMPAL), 1st ed., June 2007, pp.169-249, Lima. (with Jose Tavera, Juan de La Cruz, Melina Caldas and Milton Chamorro) [in Spanish]