I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Management of the London School of Economics (on leave). I am also a Research Affiliate at CEPR, CESifo, and Associate at CEP.
During the Spring and Fall of 2024, I will be a visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at MIT.
My main fields of research are International Trade, Labo(u)r Economics, and Development Economics.
Emails: j.p.vasquez@lse.ac.uk; jpvasq@mit.edu.
Publications
- The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña and Isabela Manelici. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022. Vol 137(3), pp. 1495–1552. Online Appendix.
Working papers
- Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare and Mauricio Ulate. June 2024. Revision requested at the Journal of Political Economy.
- Link to VoxEU column
- Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions with Mauricio Ulate, and Roman D. Zarate. August 2023. Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Monetary Economics.
- Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Ben Faber, Cecile Gaubert, and Isabela Manelici. November 2022. Revision requested at the American Economic Review.
- Links to VoxDev summary, VoxEU column, Trade Talks episode
- The Effects of Multinationals on Workers: Evidence from Costa Rican Microdata with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña and Isabela Manelici. April 2021.
Selected work in progress
(Mis)matching to Good Suppliers: Evidence from Transactions Microdata with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña and Paolo Zacchia.
The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions with Isabela Manelici, Mauricio Ulate, and Roman D. Zarate.