Francisco
Buera’s Research
Contact: fjbuera
at econ.ucla.edu, Department of Economics, UCLA; Box 951477; Los Angeles, CA,
90095, (310) 825-8018
CV
Entrepreneurship,
Financial Markets, and Economic Development
“Persistency
of Poverty, Financial Frictions, and Entrepreneurship"
(2008).
“A
Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurship with Borrowing Constraints: Theory and
Evidence," Annals of Finance (2009)
“Financial
Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration”
with Yongseok Shin, Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)
“Finance
and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors”
with Joe Kaboski and Yongseok
Shin, American Economic Review (2011)
“ Self-Insurance
vs. Self-Financing: A Welfare Analysis of the Persistence of Shocks”
with Yongseok Shin, Journal of Economic Theory (2011)
“Productivity
Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms”
with Yongseok Shin (2010)
“Well-Intended Policies”
with BenMoll and Yongseok
Shin (2011)
The
Macroeconomics of Microfinance“”
with Joe Kaboski and Yongseok
Shin (2011)
Aggregate Implications
of a Credit Crunch”
with Benjamin Moll (2011)
Structural
Change and Economic Development
"The Rise of the Service
Economy," with Joe Kaboski, American Economic Review
(2012)
"Scale
and the Origins of Structural Change,"
with Joe Kaboski, Journal of Economic Theory (2011)
"Can
Traditional Theories of Structural Change Fit the Data?"
with Joe Kaboski, Journal of the European Economic
Association (2009)
Learning,
Diffusion, and Economic Development
“Models
of Idea Flows," with Fernando Alvarez and
Robert E. Lucas (2007)
"Learning
the Wealth of Nations," with Alex Monge and Giorgio Primiceri, Econometrica (2011)
“Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade," with Fernando Alvarez and
Robert E. Lucas (2011)
Other
Papers
"Optimal
Maturity of Government Debt without State Contingent Bonds,"
with Juan Pablo Nicolini, Journal of Monetary
Economics (2004)
"Non-parametric
Identification and Testable Implications of the Roy Model,"
(2006)