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Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation”
By: Laura Alfaro
Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern of US participation in global value chains over the last four decades, in terms of... View Details
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Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?*
By: Laura Alfaro
What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
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The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment
By: Laura Alfaro
In aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control... View Details
- Research Summary
The Global Networks of Multinational Firms (with Maggie Chen)
By: Laura Alfaro
In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We construct indices of network density at both pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a... View Details
- 2022
- Government Testimony
Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Panama: A New Alliance for Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in the Americas
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Panama: A New Alliance for Promoting Democracy and Prosperity in the Americas." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy, January 2022.
- December 2020
- Teaching Note
Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States
By: Laura Alfaro
- 2016
- Other Article
Multinational Firms, Value Chains, and Vertical Integration
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Multinational Firms, Value Chains, and Vertical Integration." NBER Reporter, no. 3 (2016). (Research Summary.)
- April 26, 2015
- Article
América Latina al final de la bonanza económica [Latin America at the End of the Economic Bonanza]
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "América Latina al final de la bonanza económica [Latin America at the End of the Economic Bonanza]." La Nación (Costa Rica) (April 26, 2015).
- February 8, 2014
- Editorial
China: nuevo modelo de crecimiento [China: the new growth model]
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "China: nuevo modelo de crecimiento [China: the new growth model]." La Nación (Costa Rica) (February 8, 2014).
- March 14, 2011
- Guest Column
Seguridad ciudadana y paz social. Polsepaz define el actuar a largo plazo para una red de actores mayor que el gobierno
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Seguridad ciudadana y paz social. Polsepaz define el actuar a largo plazo para una red de actores mayor que el gobierno." La Nación (Costa Rica) (March 14, 2011).
- April 19, 2011
- Guest Column
Estrategia de abordaje de la planificación regional
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Estrategia de abordaje de la planificación regional." Diario Extra (April 19, 2011).
- April 29, 2012
- Guest Column
Mideplan: Rendición de cuentas 2010-2012
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Mideplan: Rendición de cuentas 2010-2012." La Nación (Costa Rica) (April 29, 2012).
- December 30, 2012
- Guest Column
Expectativas en EE. UU.
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Expectativas en EE. UU." La Nación (Costa Rica) (December 30, 2012).
- December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
- Teaching Note
Foreign Direct Investment and Ireland's Tiger Economy (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Laura Alfaro
- 26 Jun 2014
- News
Investors Always Come Back … Even to Argentina
- 26 Aug 2023
- News
China Remains Embedded in US Supply Chains: Jackson Hole Paper
- March 2006 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
China: To Float or Not To Float? (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
On July 21, 2005 China revalued its decade-long quasi-fixed exchange rate of approximately 8.28 yuan per U.S. dollar by 2.1% to 8.11 and, at the same time, introduced a more market-based exchange rate system. Many analysts and economists were disappointed with what... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; China
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "China: To Float or Not To Float? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 706-021, March 2006. (Revised April 2010.)
- Article
Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.