Articles
Political Economy
Looking Inside the ballot box: Gender Gaps in Argentine Presidential Elections. International Review of Economics, 70 (2): 237-255. June 2023. (with José Bercoff)
Feeding the Leviathan: political competition and soft budget constraints. Evidence from Argentine subnational districts. Journal of Regional Research/Investigaciones Regionales 22(1): 119-135. Spring 2022.
¿Cuán procíclica es la política fiscal de las provincias argentinas? Evidencia para el periodo 1998- 2017. Actualidad Económica, Vol. 31 Número 103. Enero- Abril 2021.
Turning a Blind Eye to Policy Prescriptions: Exploring the Sources of Procyclical Fiscal Behavior at the Subnational Level. Public Finance and Management, Vol. 18(3). Year 2018
Electoral opportunism and vertical fiscal imbalance. Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. XIX No. 1 (May 2016): 145-168.
Voters as Fiscal Liberals. Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems Economics and Politics. Vol. 24(2). July 2012. (With Mark Jones and Mariano Tommasi)
A stylized model of overrepresentation and quality in the Congress.Economics Letters, Vol. 115 (issue 3) June 2012. (With José Bercoff and Jorge Nougues)
Federal Budget Allocation in an emergent democracy. Evidence from Argentina.(With José Bercoff) Economics of Governance. Vol. 10 Number 1: 65-83. January 2009.
Empleo, desempleo y elecciones. El caso de la elección presidencial argentina de 1995. Estudios de Economía, Universidad de Chile, Volumen 24 Nº 1, Junio 1997.
Crime
Is there an electorally-motivated crime rate cycle? Evidence from Argentina. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 38(2) Year 2018.
Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina. International Review of Law and Economics. Vol. 39, August 2014
Determinants of the Crime Rate in Argentina during the 90’s. Estudios de Economía, Universidad de Chile, Vol. 27 Nº 1. Diciembre de 2000. (With Ana María Cerro)
Regional & Urban Economics
El precio de los terrenos y el valor de sus atributos. Un enfoque de precios hedónicos. Económica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, año XLVII- N° 1- 2002. (With Fernanda Ruiz Núñez).
Economic History
Making explosive cocktails: recipes and costs of 20 Argentine crises from 1865 to 2004. Reserach in Economic History/Investigaciones en Historia Económica. Vol. 10. June 2014 (with Ana María Cerro)
Crises and Crashes: Argentina, 1825-2002. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History/ Revista de Historia Económica. Vol. 31(2) September 2013. (With Ana María Cerro)
Empirical evidence on fiscal policy sustainability in Argentina. The ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics. Vol. II Nos. 3 &4. August & November 2009. (With María Florencia Aráoz, Ana María Cerro and Tatiana Soria Genta)
One Way or Another: Fiscal Sustainability in Argentina, 1867-2004. International Journal of Financial Economics and Econometrics. Vol.1 No.2 (2009) (With Ana María Cerro and Tatiana Soria Genta)
Potential Output
Algunas Estimaciones del Producto Potencial de Argentina. Revista de la Escuela de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Nacional General San Martín, Año I Nº 2 Agosto de 1999. ISSN 1514-2779.
Crecimiento Potencial y Productividad en la Argentina: 1980-1997. Publicado por el Ministerio de Economía y Obras y Servicios Públicos. Secretaría de Programación Económica Regional. Subsecretaría de Programación Macroeconómica. Enero de 1999. http://cdi.mecon.gov.ar/biblio/docelec/aaep/98/meloni.pdf