Research
Job Market Paper
The academic cost of international conflict
[Draft available upon request]
Abstract: Countries involved in international armed conflicts pay a high price in terms of human capital. By leveraging the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, I analyse the cost that Russia-based researchers had to pay in academic terms. I find that the start of the conflict brought along a penalty to academics based in Russia, , who see their citations drop in a magnitude similar to the penalties found following paper retractions. I also find that they struggle to publish their research in international journals, even if they maintain similar productivity levels as in the pre-war period. Emigration seems to alleviate the problem, although with some delay.
Publications
Price setting on the two sides of the Atlantic-Evidence from supermarket scanner data with Peter Karadi, Juergen Amann, Pascal Seiler and Jesse Wursten Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023
Price adjustment in the euro area in the low-inflation period: evidence from consumer and producer micro price data with Erwan Gautier, Peter Karadi et al. ECB Occasional papers, 2023
Working papers
Emigration prospects and educational choices: Evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor
with Michel Beine and Vincent Fromentin
Submitted
Abstract: An extensive literature has documented the incentive effect of emigration prospects in terms of human capital accumulation at origin. Less attention has been paid to the impact on specific educational choices. Using novel data from graduates from the University of Lorraine (France) we find that students who paid attention to the foreign labor market at the time of enrollment tend to choose topics that lead to highly-valued occupations in Luxembourg, a booming economy across the border. These results hold when accounting for heterogeneous substitution patterns and for the potential endogeneity of the interest for the foreign labor market.
Local flight: The pushing effect of long-term tourism
with Camila Pineda León