Submitted Papers and Research in Progress
"The
Diffusion of Incentive Pay Across Occupations in
Spanish Establishments", (with Alberto Bayo-Moriones
and Sara Martinez-de-Moretin). Work
in progress.
"Performance
Appraisal and Business Strategy", (with Alberto Bayo-Moriones).
Work in progress.
"Real
Exchange Rate Dynamics and Financial Fragility: A General Equilibrium
Approach", (with Luis Carranza). Work in progress.
"Optimal Taxation in an Economy with Externalities", (with Luis Carranza and Jose
Suarez-Lledo). Work in progress.
"Let's go to Court! Firing Costs and Dismissal Conflicts", (with Maia Güell).
Industrial Relations Section,
"The
Relationship between Investment and Large Exchange Rate Depreciations in
Dollarized Economies",
(with Luis Carranza and Javier Gomez-Biscarri).
Working Paper No. 01/08, Universidad de Navarra,
2008. Submitted.
"Financial
Development and the Assymmetry of Monetary
Policy", (with Luis Carranza and Javier Gomez-Biscarri). Mimeo Universidad Publica
de Navarra, 2006. Submitted.
"What
are the Factors behind Pay Settlements? Evidence from British
and Spanish Data", (with Alberto Bayo-Moriones and Sara Martinez-de-Moretin). IZA Dicussion Paper 3401, 2008. Revision requested.
"Evaluating
Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium
Approach", (with Cesar Alonso-Borrego and Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde). Working Paper No. 487,
Industrial Relations Section,
Published Papers
"Understanding the
Relationship between Financial Development and Monetary Policy", (with Luis Carranza and Javier Gomez-Biscarri). Forthcoming Review of
International Economics,
2010.
"Is Seniority-Based
Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant-Level
Data", (with Alberto Bayo-Moriones
and Maia Güell). Forthcoming Research in Labor Economics, 2010.
"Multinational
Companies and High Performance Human Resource Management Practices" (with Alberto Bayo-Moriones). Forthcoming International
Journal of Human Resource Management, 2010.
"Exchange
Rate and Inflation Dynamics in Dollarized Economies", (with Luis Carranza
and Javier Gomez-Biscarri). Journal of Development Economics, 2009, vol. 89(1), pp. 98-108.
"Collective
Bargaining under Perfect Information. The Negotiation of National
Agreements", (with Carlos Diaz-Moreno). Spanish Economic Review, 2005,
vol. 7(2), pp. 139-155.
"Financial
Intermediation, Variability and the Development Process" (with Luis
Carranza), Journal
of Development Economics,
2004, vol. 73 (1), pp. 27-54.
"Collective Bargaining
under Complete Information" (with Carlos Díaz-Moreno),
in: Salomon W. Polachek (Ed.), Accounting for Worker
Well-Being,
Research in Labor Economics, 2004, vol. 23, pp. 359-379. Elsevier
Science/JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.
"Exchange Rate
Volatility and Economic Performance in Peru: A Firm Level Analysis" (with
Luis Carranza and Juan M. Cayo), Emerging Markets
Review, 2003, vol. 4
(4), pp. 472-496.
"Dismissal Conflicts
and Unemployment" (with Maia Güell), European Economic Review, 2003, vol. 47 (2), pp. 127-139.
"Competitive Pressure
and Labor Productivity: World Iron-Ore Markets in the
1980's" (with James Schmitz), American Economic Review, 2002, vol. 92 (4), pp. 1222-1235.
Reprinted in Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review, Spring
2003, vol. 27 (2), pp. 9-23.
"Explaining
Cross-country Differences in Participation Rates and Aggregate
Fluctuations" (with Juan Carlos Conesa and Carlos Díaz-Moreno),
Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2002, vol. 26 (2), pp. 333-345.
"Employment
Protection Legislation and the IT-sector in OECD Countries", Louvain Economic
Review (Recherches Economiques de
Louvain), 2002, vol. 68 (1-2), pp. 169-184. Special Issue: “The New Economy:
Implications and Viability”, R. Boucekkine and
E. Wasmer (Eds.).
"Underground
Economy and Aggregate Fluctuations" (with Juan Carlos Conesa and Carlos Díaz-Moreno),
Spanish
Economic Review, 2001,
vol. 3(1), pp. 41-53 (pdf file).
"Job
Creation, Job Destruction and the Dynamics of Spanish Firms" (with Carlos Díaz-Moreno), Investigaciones Económicas, 2000, vol. 24(3), pp. 545-561 (pdf file).
"How Important is Firm
Behavior to Understand Employment? Evidence from Spain"
(with Carlos Díaz Moreno), Investigaciones
Económicas, 1999, vol. 23(2), pp. 203-224. (pdf
file)