Welcome
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of McMaster University, currently serving as Associate Chair of the Department.
Working Papers
∙ The Cost of Trade Disruptions at Different Stages of Development (with J. C. Conesa, M. J. Delventhal, and G. Raveendranathan) - Under revision for resubmission at the International Economic Review.
∙ Optimal Design and Quantitative Evaluation of the Minimum Wage (with Z. L. Mahone).
Work in progress
∙ Improving Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade Liberalization (with T. J. Kehoe, J. Rossbach and K. J. Ruhl).
∙ Calculating the Equilibria of Heterogeneous-Firm Trade Models (with T. J. Kehoe and K. J. Ruhl).
Publications
∙ 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.
∙ Gains from Trade with Variable Trade Elasticities (with W. J. Brooks), International Economic Review, vol. 60(4), November 2019, 1619-1646.
∙ 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.
∙ 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.
∙ The Canadian Productivity Stagnation, 2002-2014 (with J. C. Conesa), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 52(2), May 2019, 561-583.
Technical Appendix and Excel file with the data.
∙ Capital Accumulation and the Welfare Gains from Trade (with W. J. Brooks), Economic Theory, vol. 66(2), August 2018, 491-523.
∙ Quantitative Trade Models: Developments and Challenges (with T. J. Kehoe and J. Rossbach), Annual Review of Economics, vol. 9, August 2017, 295-325.
Link to the Minneapolis Fed Research Staff Report 537.
Link to NBER Working Paper 22706.
∙ Fiscal Discipline and Defaults (with G. Fernandez de Cordoba and J. L. Torres), Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 24, March 2017, 1-13.
∙ The Opportunity Costs of Entrepreneurs in International Trade (with T. J. Kehoe and K. J. Ruhl), Economics Letters, vol. 146, September 2016, 1-3.
Link to the Minneapolis Fed Research Staff Report 533.
Link to NBER Working Paper 22514.
∙ 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.
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.
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.
(Co-)organization of conferences and visits
∙ 2014 Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group
∙ 2015 Workshop in International Economics
∙ 2016 Junior Faculty Workshop
∙ 2017, 2018, 2019 Annual Workshop of South Ontario Macro Economists (a.k.a "The A.W.S.O.M.E. conference")
∙ 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Productivity, Aggregate Efficiency and Labor: Latest Advances (a.k.a. "The P.A.E.L.L.A. workshop")
∙ 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-mails
pau [at] pujolasfons.com
pujolasp [at] mcmaster.ca
