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May 2025, Paper: "Trade and industrial policies, while primarily intended to support domestic industries, may unintentionally stimulate technological progress abroad. We document…
September 28, 2023, Opinion: "Previous optimism that cross-border supply chains would improve efficiency for firms and open up growth opportunities for countries has been tempered…
August 2023, Powerpoint: "Optimism of 1990s & 2000s: Falling transportation costs & policy barriers + technological change ⎼ Supply chains… improve efficiency, by allowing…
2022, Paper: "We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals’ preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain…
March 29, 2021, Video: "The Geneva Trade and Development Workshop (GTDW) is a seminar series, featuring invited speakers in the area of International Trade. It has been running…
July 8, 2020, Opinion, "Rising trade barriers, fluctuations in capital flows, financial volatility, and spillovers from industrialized countries’ monetary policies create a…
Pandemics Fragilities: Halt in Hyper-specialized GVC and the Big-Dollar-Hunger. Laura Alfaro, March 2020, Paper, "The risk of pandemics or natural disasters made clear the…
Introduction to: the euro at twenty. Laura Alfaro, November 27, 2018, Book Chapter, "January 1, 2019 marks 20 years since the introduction of the euro. This anniversary…
The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment. Laura Alfaro, June 2017, Paper, "This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on…
Multinational Firms, Value Chains, and Vertical Integration. Laura Alfaro, 2016, Paper, "In recent decades there has been a very rapid increase in flows of goods and capital…