Paula Bustos is an ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University, a CEPR Research Fellow and co-leader of Trade and Spatial Frictions Theme of the STEG-CEPR program. She obtained her PhD in Economics at Harvard University and her Bachelor Degree at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Argentina. Paula’s research focuses on international trade and development economics and has been published in leading journals. Her research has been funded by a Starting Grant and a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

Three selected publications:

Trade Liberalization, Exports and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinean Firms
American Economic Review, 101(1), 2011, 304–340. http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.1.304

Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence from Brazil’ (co-authors Bruno Caprettini and Jacopo Ponticelli)
American Economic Review, 106(6), 2016, 1320–1365. http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20131061

Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation (co-authors Gabriel Garber and Jacopo Ponticelli)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(2), 2020, 1037–1094. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz044