Welcome
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of McMaster University. I serve as Associate Chair of the Department for the period 2021-2025.
I am also the Placement Director for the years 2023-2025: check out our job market candidates this year!
My SSRN page is here. My Google Scholar page is here.
Work in progress and working papers
∙ Trade Wars with Trade Deficits (with J. Rossbach).
∙ How Should Canada React to the Looming U.S. Trade War? (with J. Rossbach).
Media: BrighterWorld, Catalunya Radio, The Hill Times, NewsWeek, Strategy Magazine, CBC
∙ Improving Trade Policy Modeling with Best-Fit Elasticities (with T. J. Kehoe, J. Rossbach, and K. J. Ruhl).
∙ Non-Homothetic Ricardo (with O. Loertscher and W. Steingress).
Publications
∙ The Cost of Trade Disruptions at Different Stages of Development (with J. C. Conesa, M. J. Delventhal, and G. Raveendranathan), International Economic Review, vol. 65(3), August 2024, 1133-1161.
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Media: NadaEsGratis
∙ Canadian Productivity Growth: Stuck in the Oil Sands (with O. Loertscher), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 57(2), May 2024, 478-501.
SSRN link
Media: Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail (II), The Hub, TVO, Brighter World, Worthwile Canadian Initiative, NadaEsGratis, Canadian Tax Foundation, National Observer, Spotify, MacLean's
∙ The Neoclassical Growth Model and the Labor Share Decline (with Z. L. Mahone and J. Naval), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 21(2), June 2021, 607-628.
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∙ Gains from Trade with Variable Trade Elasticities (with W. J. Brooks), International Economic Review, vol. 60(4), November 2019, 1619-1646.
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∙ Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: Estimation Methods Matter (with J. M. Kealey and C. Sosa-Padilla), Economic Inquiry, vol. 57(3), July 2019, 1272-1283.
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∙ The Curious Incident of Luxury Imports during the Top-Income Surge (with S. Houle and M. R. Veall), Economics Bulletin, vol. 39(2), June 2019, 1479-1487.
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∙ The Canadian Productivity Stagnation, 2002-2014 (with J. C. Conesa), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 52(2), May 2019, 561-583.
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Media: National Observer
∙ Capital Accumulation and the Welfare Gains from Trade (with W. J. Brooks), Economic Theory, vol. 66(2), August 2018, 491-523.
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∙ Quantitative Trade Models: Developments and Challenges (with T. J. Kehoe and J. Rossbach), Annual Review of Economics, vol. 9, August 2017, 295-325.
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Media: NadaEsGratis, FocoEconomico
∙ Fiscal Discipline and Defaults (with G. Fernandez de Cordoba and J. L. Torres), Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 24, March 2017, 1-13 (lead article).
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∙ The Opportunity Costs of Entrepreneurs in International Trade (with T. J. Kehoe and K. J. Ruhl), Economics Letters, vol. 146, September 2016, 1-3.
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∙ Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity: the Role of Idiosyncratic Shocks (with J. M. Da-Rocha), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 11(1), Topics, 35, 2011.
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In Spanish
∙ Eficiencia y Equilibrio en un Modelo de Formación de Derechos de Propiedad (with J. M. Da-Rocha and J. Sempere), El Trimestre Económico, vol. LXXXI (3), núm. 323, julio-septiembre, 2014, 579-593.
IDEAS link
Not peer-reviewed
∙ Improving the Analysis of Trade Policy (with T. J. Kehoe and J. Rossbach), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Economic Policy Paper, 18-1, January 2018.
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(Co-)organization of conferences and visits
∙ Inaugural Canadian International Trade Study Group, 2024
∙ The Mini-conference on Productivity, 2024
∙ A Conference in Honor of Tim Kehoe, 2023
∙ 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 Productivity, Aggregate Efficiency and Labor: Latest Advances (a.k.a. "The P.A.E.L.L.A. workshop")
∙ 2017, 2018, 2019 Annual Workshop of South Ontario Macro Economists (a.k.a "The A.W.S.O.M.E. conference")
∙ 2016 Junior Faculty Workshop
∙ 2015 Workshop in International Economics
∙ 2014 Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group
∙ List of people invited to give a talk at Mac
Address:
1280 Main Street West
KTH 419 McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
Phone: +1 905 525-9140 ext. 23819
E-mail: pujolasp [at] mcmaster.ca
