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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro
We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details
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Undisclosed Debt Sustainability

By: Laura Alfaro
Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low- and middle-income countries. In contrast with typical sovereign debt, these lending arrangements are not public, and other creditors have no information... View Details
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

By: Laura Alfaro
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of... View Details
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Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation (joint with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych)

By: Laura Alfaro
We examine the role of different explanations for the lack of flows of capital from rich to poor countries -- the Lucas paradox -- in an empirical framework. Broadly, the theoretical explanations for this paradox include differences in fundamentals affecting the... View Details
  • October 2024
  • Teaching Note

El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

By: Laura Alfaro
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Government Administration; Latin America; El Salvador
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Alfaro, Laura. "El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 325-005, October 2024.
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism

By: Laura Alfaro
Keywords: Global Range; Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalization; International Relations; Policy
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Alfaro, Laura. "Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism." Chap. 2 in Geoeconomic Fragmentation: The Economic Risks from a Fractured World Economy, by Shekhar Aliyar, Andrea Presbitero, and Michele Ruta, 19–25. Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2023.
  • October 22, 2010
  • Guest Column

Voluntad política para realizar el censo 2011

By: Laura Alfaro
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Alfaro, Laura. "Voluntad política para realizar el censo 2011." La Nación (Costa Rica) (October 22, 2010).
  • November 14, 2010
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La labor del Mideplan

By: Laura Alfaro
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Alfaro, Laura. "La labor del Mideplan." El Financiero (November 14, 2010).
  • December 25, 2010
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Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2011-2014: María Teresa Obregón Zamora

By: Laura Alfaro
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Alfaro, Laura. "Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2011-2014: María Teresa Obregón Zamora." La Nación (Costa Rica) (December 25, 2010).
  • December 27, 2010
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Una reflexión sobre los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares 2010. Evolución reciente de la pobreza en Costa Rica

By: Laura Alfaro
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Alfaro, Laura. "Una reflexión sobre los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Hogares 2010. Evolución reciente de la pobreza en Costa Rica." Diario Extra (December 27, 2010).
  • May 2002
  • Teaching Note

Brazil: Embracing Globalization? TN

By: Laura Alfaro
Teaching Note for (9-701-104). View Details
Keywords: Brazil
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Alfaro, Laura. "Brazil: Embracing Globalization? TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 702-079, May 2002.
  • June 2005
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Inflation, Openness, and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Quest for Short-Term Commitment

By: Laura Alfaro
This paper further tests Romer's (1993) extension of Kydland and Prescott's (1977) predictions for dynamic-inconsistency problems in open economies. In a panel data set of developed and developing countries from 1973 to 1998, I find that openness does not play a role... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Developing Countries and Economies; Inflation and Deflation
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Alfaro, Laura. "Inflation, Openness, and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Quest for Short-Term Commitment." Journal of Development Economics 77, no. 1 (June 2005): 229–249.
  • 2001
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On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro
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Alfaro, Laura. "On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-086, June 2001.
  • 20 Jun 2025
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When Supply Shocks to Essential Inputs Spur Innovation: Lessons from the Global Rare Earths Disruption

  • 13 Dec 2023
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Six Reasons Why Global Supply Chains Are Shifting

  • 14 Nov 2023
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The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Successful Joint Venture

  • 10 Oct 2023
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Globalization’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

  • 27 Aug 2023
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Global Inflation Pressures Could Become Harder to Manage in Coming Years, Research Suggests

  • 2007
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Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership

By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety; Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Practice; Gender; Business Processes; Energy Industry
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Meyerson, D. E., R. Ely, and Laura Wernick. "Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership." In Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by D. Rhode and B. Kellerman. Warren Bennis book. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
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