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Overview

Laura Alfaro is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans 23 publications in this primary field, with significant contributions to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Accounting, and Strategy and Management.

Their published work covers a range of topics, focusing notably on:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Business, Innovation, and Economy
  • Working Capital and Financial Performance

Laura Alfaro's recent papers include:

  • On the direct and indirect real effects of credit supply shocks (2020, Journal of Financial Economics)
  • Global Supply Chains: The Looming "Great Reallocation" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • EMEs and COVID-19 Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences (2022, Management Science)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marcela Eslava
  • Ester Faia
  • Maggie Xiaoyang Chen
  • Davin Chor
  • Óscar Becerra

Regarding publication venues, Laura Alfaro has most frequently published in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Management Science
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • IMF Economic Review

The scientist has also contributed to book publications under the publishers CAF eBooks and Banco de la República. Titles include:

  • El desafio del desarrollo en America Latina. Politicas para una region mas productiva, integrada e inclusiva (2020)
  • Covid-19 consecuencias y desafíos en la economía colombiana. Una mirada desde las universidades (2022)

Best Publications

  • FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets*

    Laura Alfaro;Areendam Chanda;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Selin Sayek

  • Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation

    Laura Alfaro;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Vadym Volosovych

  • Why doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation

    Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Laura Alfaro;Vadym Volosovych

  • Does foreign direct investment promote growth? Exploring the role of financial markets on linkages

    Laura Alfaro;Areendam Chanda;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Selin Sayek

  • Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

    Laura Alfaro;Andrew Charlton;Fabio Kanczuk

  • Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

    Laura Alfaro;Anusha Chari;Andrew N. Greenland;Peter K. Schott

  • FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets*

    Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Laura Alfaro;Selin Sayek;Areendam Chanda

  • Capital Flows in a Globalized World: The Role of Policies and Institutions

    Laura Alfaro;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Vadym Volosovych

  • FDI, Productivity and Financial Development

    Laura Alfaro;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Selin Sayek

  • Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

    Laura Alfaro;Andrew Charlton

  • Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

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  • Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: Does the Sector Matter? *

    Laura Alfaro

  • Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

    Laura Alfaro;Anusha Chari;Anusha Chari;Andrew N Greenland;Peter K Schott

  • Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

    Laura Alfaro;Paul Antràs;Davin Chor;Paola Conconi

  • HOW DOES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH? EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS ON LINKAGES

    Laura Alfaro;Areendam Chanda;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Selin Sayek

  • SOVEREIGNS, UPSTREAM CAPITAL FLOWS, AND GLOBAL IMBALANCES

    Laura Alfaro;Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan;Vadym Volosovych

  • Multinationals and Linkages: An Empirical Investigation

    Laura Alfaro;Andres Rodriguez-Clare

  • Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

    Laura Alfaro;Fabio Kanczuk

  • Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

    Laura Alfaro;Andrew Charlton;Fabio Kanczuk

  • Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

    Laura Alfaro;Andrew Charlton;Fabio Kanczuk

  • Surviving the global financial crisis : foreign ownership and establishment performance

    Laura Alfaro;Maggie Xiaoyang Chen

  • Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach

    Laura Alfaro;Fabio Kanczuk

  • The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment

    Laura Alfaro;Anusha Chari;Fabio Kanczuk

  • Replication data for: Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production

    Laura Alfaro;Maggie X. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Brown University
Rafael Di Tella
Rafael Di Tella Harvard University
Ugo Panizza
Ugo Panizza Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Guillermo A. Calvo
Guillermo A. Calvo Columbia University
Enrique G. Mendoza
Enrique G. Mendoza University of Pennsylvania
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs Harvard University
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom Stanford University
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Carmen M. Reinhart
Carmen M. Reinhart Harvard University

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