My research interests are international trade, economic geography, and environmental and development economics. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).
Here is my CV and Google Scholar.
Climate change and migration: the case of Africa (September 2022)
CESifo Distinguished Research Affiliate Prize | CESifo WP 9948 | Replication
On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes (November 2022)
with K. Desmet and E. Rossi-Hansberg | NBER WP 30678 | Replication
The Power of Markets: Impact of Desert Locust Invasions on Child Health, Journal of Health Economics, 2022, p.102712 | with L. Piemontese and A. Tapsoba | Published version | Replication
Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World, Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21(4), 487–491
with K. Desmet, D. Nagy, and E. Rossi-Hansberg | Published version | Replication
The Water of Nations: Factor Trade and the Environmental Footprint of the Globalized Economy
with E. Aguilar
Climate Change and the Regional Lake Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa
with R. Jedwab
Climate Change, Migration, and Urbanization (October 2022)
prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (under review)
Trade to Adapt: Changing Specialization to Cope with Climate Change, in: Weder di Mauro, B. (Ed.), Combatting Climate Change: A CEPR Collection, E-book, 2021
with K. Desmet, D. Nagy, and E. Rossi-Hansberg | Published version
Spatial Development and Mobility Frictions in Latin America: Theory-Based Empirical Evidence (2021)
with E. Ianchovichina | WB Policy Research WP 10071 | Old slides
Quality of Institutions and Structural Transformation in Northern Africa (2019)
with Z. Benhamouche, T. Fetzer, and H. Mueller | Policy brief | Full text
Spatial Data in Economics: Theory and Tools
Instructor, U Bologna, Graduate (Master), Winter 2023 | course page
Text Mining and Web Scraping for Economics in R
Instructor, Barcelona GSE, Graduate (Master), Spring 2018, Winter 2019,2020,2021 | syllabus | old material
Introduction to Economics (Microeconomics 1)
Instructor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Undergraduate, Fall 2019 | syllabus