Mauricio is a terrific economist and my best friend. Doing the PhD with him was a total pleasure. He is exceptionally generous and tirelessly provided feedback and comments to me and others, all of whom were working on different topics.

I met Mauricio during my visit to Minnesota — an amazing guy, always ready to take you to a Timberwolves game 🏀. He's now on the job market!

Why does Latin America suffer from high inflation, high informality, and low financial intermediation? UMN Economics JMC Gabriel Devoto's Gabriel Devoto hypothesis: Government’s use of inflation as fiscal tool causes informality and low financial intermediation. gabrieldevoto.com

Gabriel Gabriel Devoto , a UMN Economics JMC, studies how inflation affects household savings, aggregate capital, and informality. Using a model calibrated to Latin America, he shows rising inflation increases informality and reduces capital. Check his website: gabrieldevoto.com/home

👇 Gabriel Devoto keeping up with the tradition of great Argentinian economists, on the job market from Minnesota. Check him out! I have known him for the past 6 years and seen first hand the great economist and person he is.

Pumas juega con soltura y personalidad en Monterrey… Es, por mucho, el visitante más distinguido de la liguilla….

UMN Economics JMC Maurico Barbosa-Alves Mauricio Barbosa Alves builds a spatial macro trade model to reveal the interaction between climate change and infrastructure in shaping food prices and agricultural outcomes. Another rising star economist from Team Minnesota!

Juanpa and I are happy to share that after many years of work .... The Incredible Taylor principle | Journal of Political Economy: April 2025 (vol. 133, no. 4). journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

How will climate change impact the poor in developing countries? @UMN_EconJMC Mauricio Barbosa-Alves@ba_mauz constructs a model of Brazil in which high temps lower crop yields and agricultural incomes but poor road networks also increase food prices. mbarbosaalves.github.io

Why does Latin America suffer from high inflation, rampant informality, and low financial intermediation? UMN Economics JMC Gabriel Devoto's Gabriel Devoto hypothesis: Government use of inflation as fiscal tool causes informality and low financial intermediation. gabrieldevoto.com

A long-run policy or technology-driven decline in oil demand will likely lead to oil supply disinvestment, rather than a green paradox in which producers accelerate extraction, from Ryan Kellogg nber.org/papers/w33207

Economic statecraft and trade. A comparison of essays from the general and the economist grumpy-economist.com/p/economic-sta…

El fútbol es de momentos, de instantes que separan a los buenos de los inmortales. Y si hay un hombre que convirtió los Mundiales en su escenario personal, ese es Guillermo Ochoa. Lo hizo contra Brasil, cuando detuvo disparos que parecían condenados a ser gol y dejó en silencio

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To all macro PhD students: We're organising a PhD workshop in beautiful Konstanz in October! Submission deadline on June 1st. Please circulate and apply! Call for papers attached 👇