PUBLICATIONS:
"Why do Firms Hide?: Bribes and Unofficial Activity after Communism" (w/ S. Johnson, D. Kaufman and J. McMillan), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
"Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam," (w/ J. McMillan), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming, November 1999.
"Dispute Prevention without Courts in Vietnam" (w/ J. McMillan), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, forthcoming, October 1999.
"Inflation Stabilization and the Vanishing Size-Wage Effect," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming, October 1999.
"Contract Enforcement and Trade Liberalization in Mexico¹s Footwear Industry," June 1998, World Development, pp. 979-991.
"Formal Measures of the Informal Sector Wage Gap in Mexico, El Salvador and Peru" (w/ D. Marcouiller and V. Ruiz de Castilla), January 1997, Economic Development and Cultural Change, pp. 367-392.
"Domestic Politics, Foreign Interests and International Trade Policy: Comment" (w/ T. Hofer), December 1994, American Economic Review.
WORKING PAPERS:
"Private Ordering under Dysfunctional Public Ordering" (w/ J. McMillan), paper to appear in the Michigan Law Review.
"Contract Enforcement in Transition" (w/ S. Johnson and J. McMillan), CEPR Working Paper No. 2081.
"Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in Schooling: The Case of Mexico" (W/ M. Binder).
"Entrepreneurs and the Order of Reform," (W/ S. Johnson and J. McMillan).
"Property Rights, Finance and Entrepreneurship," (W/ S. Johnson and J. McMillan)."
"Can Any Small Firm Grow Up? Entrepreneurs and Family Backgrounds in Mexico. "
"Non-Contractible Investments and Vertical Integration in the Mexican Footwear Industry."
"Efficient Ownership in Bilateral Relationships with Repeated Specific Investments."
BOOK CHAPTERS:
"Informality and Entrepreneurship in Mexico," chapter written for edited volume of the Genero, Edad, Familia, y Trabajo project.
"Intergenerational Mobility in Educational Attainment in Mexico," (W/ M. Binder), chapter written for edited volume of the Genero, Edad, Familia, y Trabajo project.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
"The Birth and Growth of Firms in Mexico" (W/ R. Zenteno and J. McMillan).
"Educational Attainment and Economic Crisis in Mexico" (W/ M. Binder).
TEACHING:
Mexican Economic Policy, Latin American Economic Policy, Managerial Economics, Economic Development, Organizations.
Recipient of the PIASO student award for excellence in teaching, 1998-1999.
AWARDS AND HONORS:
University of Texas, University Fellow, 1992-1993.
Social Science Research Council/Ford Foundation, International Pre-Dissertation Fellow, 1991-1992.
UCLA, Graduate Studies Fellow, 1983-1984.
University of Chicago, General Honors and Honors in Economics.
RESEARCH GRANTS:
"The Entry and Survival of Firms in Transition Economies," European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1998.
"Institutional Adjustment to Trade Liberalization," UCSD Academic Senate, 1997.
Research Fellow, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, January-June 1997.
"The Growth of Markets in Vietnam," The William Davidson Institute, 1997.
"The Growth of Markets in Vietnam," UCSD Academic Senate, 1996.
"The Mexican Labor Market and Informal Sector Wage Gaps", UCSD Academic Senate, 1995.
Institute of Latin American Studies, UT-Austin, Faculty Sponsored Dissertation Grant, 1993.
REFEREEING:
National Science Foundation American Economic Review
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Journal of Latin American Studies Journal of International Economics
Economic Development and Cultural Change
PRESENTATIONS:
"Formal Measures of the Informal Sector Wage Gap in Mexico", seminar presentation, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, February 1995.
"Specific Investments and Repeated Interactions: Institutions and Vertical Integration in the Mexican Footwear Industry", seminar presentation, Tulane University Economics Department, April 1995.
"Specific Relationships and Coalitions in Closed and Open Economies," Econometric Society Meetings, January 1996, San Francisco.
"Inflation Stabilization and the Vanishing Size-Wage Effect," Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association meetings, October 1996, Mexico City.
"Inflation Stabilization and the Vanishing Size-Wage Effect," Southern Economic Association meetings, November 1996, Washington, D.C.
"Trade Liberalization and Trade in the Mexican Footwear Industry," seminar presentation, Center for US-Mexican Studies, May 1997.
"Inflation Stabilization and the Vanishing Size-Wage Effect," Western Economic Association meetings, July 1997, Seattle.
"Non-Contractible Investments and Vertical Integration in the Mexican Footwear Industry," UCLA November 1997.
"Non-Contractible Investments and Vertical Integration in the Mexican Footwear Industry,
" Latin American Econometric Society Meetings, August 1998, Lima, Peru. "Trust or Torts: Contract Enforcement in Transition," UCSD Economics Department, October 1998.
"Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam," Econometric Society Meetings, January 1999, New York.
"Contract Enforcement in Transition," American Law and Economic Association Meetings, May 1999, New Haven.
"Roundtable on Economic Priorities for Latin America 2000-2005," Institute of the Americas 15th Anniversary Conference, September 1999, San Diego.
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