2026 Alejandro Micco: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	36	2736	2481	5	5	161	9794

Overview

Alejandro Micco is affiliated with the University of Chile in Chile and has contributed extensively to research in economics, public administration, and health professions. Their work spans various fields including economics, econometrics and finance, social sciences, and health-related areas.

The research focus includes topics such as labor market dynamics and wage inequality, employment and welfare studies, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor movements and unions, firm innovation and growth, gender, labor and family dynamics, and digital economy and work transformation.

Frequent coauthors in Alejandro Micco's research include Pablo Egaña-delSol, Francisca Pérez, Gabriel Cruz, Andrés Gómez-Lobo, and Montserrat Marti.

Publications appear in several venues, with a concentration in the SSRN Electronic Journal, alongside contributions to Technological Forecasting and Social Change, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, World Development, and Economics of Transportation.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Alejandro Micco include:

"COVID-19 and automation in a developing economy: Evidence from Chile" (2021), Technological Forecasting and Social Change
"COVID-19's Impact on the Labor Market Shaped by Automation: Evidence from Chile" (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
"The Impact of Extending Employment Protection to Agency Workers on Firms" (2023), American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"New Technologies, Automation, and Labor Markets" (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
"Computerization, offshoring and trade: The effect on developing countries" (2024), World Development

Alejandro Micco has also authored a book titled Mecanismos públicos para viabilizar proyectos socioeconómicamente rentables y para garantizar su bancabilidad, published by Inter-American Development Bank eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade

Ximena Clark;David Dollar;Alejandro Micco

1310
Citations
Bank Ownership and Performance Does Politics Matter

Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza;Monica Yañez

1027
Citations
The Currency Union Effect on Trade: Early Evidence from EMU

Alejandro Micco;Ernesto H. Stein;Guillermo Luis Ordoñez

897
Citations
Concentration and Foreign Penetration in Latin American Banking Sectors: Impact on Competition and Risk

Eduardo Levy Yeyati;Alejandro Micco

733
Citations
Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior

Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

695
Citations
Port Efficiency and International Trade: Port Efficiency as a Determinant of Maritime Transport Costs

Ricardo J Sánchez;Jan Hoffmann;Alejandro Micco;Georgina V Pizzolitto

440
Citations
Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior

Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

428
Citations
Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility

Ricardo J. Caballero;Kevin N. Cowan;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Alejandro Micco

394
Citations
Bank Ownership and Performance

Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza;Mónica Yañez

278
Citations
The economic effects of employment protection: Evidence from international industry-level data

Carmen Pagés;Alejandro Micco

273
Citations
Maritime transport costs and port efficiency

David Dollar;Ximena Clark;Alejandro Micco

202
Citations
Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

Ricardo J. Caballero;Kevin N. Cowan;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Alejandro Micco

189
Citations
Competition regimes and air transport costs: The effects of open skies agreements

Alejandro Micco;Tomás Serebrisky

162
Citations
Concentration and Foreign Penetration in Latin American Banking Sectors: Impact on Competition and Risk

Eduardo Levy Levy-Yeyati;Alejandro Micco

130
Citations
Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks

Eduardo Levy Yeyati;Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

116
Citations
Effects of Tariffs and Real Exchange Rates on Job Reallocation: Evidence from Latin America

John Haltiwanger;Adriana Kugler;Maurice Kugler;Alejandro Micco

115
Citations
Better the Devil that You Know: Evidence on Entry Costs Faced by Foreign Banks

Arturo Galindo;Alejandro Micco;César Manuel Serra

113
Citations
Better the Devil that You Know: Evidence on Entry Costs Faced by Foreign Banks

Arturo José Galindo;Alejandro Micco;César Manuel Serra

112
Citations
Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade

Ximena Clark;David Dollar;Alejandro Micco

109
Citations
Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks

Eduardo Levy Levy-Yeyati;Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

105
Citations
Do state owned banks promote growth? Cross-country evidence for manufacturing industries

Arturo Galindo;Alejandro Micco

96
Citations
Good Jobs Wanted: Labor Markets in Latin America

Kevin Cowan;Matias Busso;Alberto Chong;Gustavo Márquez

94
Citations
A Reappraisal of State-Owned Banks

Eduardo Levy Yeyati;Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

91
Citations
The Economic Effects of Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from International Industry-level Data

Alejandro Micco;Carmen Pages;Carmen Pages

89
Citations
Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility

Ricardo J Caballero;Kevin N Cowan;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Alejandro Micco

20
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ugo Panizza Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Alberto Chong Georgia State University

Eduardo Levy Yeyati Torcuato di Tella University

Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank

Eduardo Engel University of Chile

Ricardo J. Caballero MIT

Alessandro Rebucci Johns Hopkins University

David Dollar Brookings Institution

John Haltiwanger University of Maryland, College Park

Maurice Kugler George Mason University

External Links

Personal website of Alejandro Micco Google Scholar page

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