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Marcelo Olarreaga

Marcelo Olarreaga

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
46
Citations
9970
World Ranking
1655
National Ranking
28

Overview

Marcelo Olarreaga is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, and Gender Studies.

Their research topics predominantly cover global trade and economics, international business and foreign direct investment (FDI), World Trade Organization law, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, global trade with a focus on sustainability and social impact, fiscal policy and economic growth, and economic growth and productivity.

Marcelo Olarreaga's recent scholarly papers include the following:

  • Gender gap in faculty promotion, 2024, PLoS ONE
  • Measuring misreporting at customs, 2023, Economics Letters
  • Introduction to symposium supply chain trade in Africa: Retrospect and prospect, 2023, World Economy
  • Can export promotion reduce unemployment?, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Online exports and the skilled-unskilled wage gap, 2020, PLoS ONE

Their coauthors frequently include Yewon Choi, Arti Grover, Leonardo Iacovone, Dzmitry Kniahin, and Emmanuel Milet.

Marcelo's publications appear mostly in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, PLoS ONE, Economics Letters, World Economy, and Heliyon.

In addition to journal articles, Marcelo Olarreaga has contributed to book publications. These include titles published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, and CAF eBooks. Notable book titles include Trade Promotion Organizations in the Pandemic World (2023), El desafio del desarrollo en America Latina. Politicas para una region mas productiva, integrada e inclusiva (2020), and The Impact of Trade Promotion Organizations on Exports: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic (expected 2025).

Best Publications

  • Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices

    Hiau Looi Kee;Alessandro Nicita;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions

    Hiau Looi Kee;Alessandro Nicita;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Trade, production, and protection database, 1976-2004

    Alessandro Nicita;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Eliminating excessive tariffs on exports of least developed countries

    Bernard Hoekman;Francis Ng;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Export promotion agencies: Do they work?

    Daniel Lederman;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Lucy Payton

  • On “Indirect” Trade-Related Research and Development Spillovers

    Olivier Lumenga-Neso;Marcelo Olarreaga;Maurice Schiff

  • On `indirect' trade-related R&D spillovers

    Olivier Lumenga-Neso;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Maurice Schiff

  • Mode of foreign entry, technology transfer, and FDI policy

    Aaditya Mattoo;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Kamal Saggi

  • Mode of foreign entry, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment policy

    Aaditya Mattoo;Marcelo Olarreaga;Kamal Saggi

  • Endogenous Tariff Formation: The Case of Mercosur

    Marcelo Olarreaga;Isidro Soloaga

  • AGOA and Apparel: Who Captures the Tariff Rent in the Presence of Preferential Market Access?

    Marcelo Olarreaga;Çaglar Özden

  • There Goes Gravity: eBay and the Death of Distance

    Andreas Lendle;Marcelo Olarreaga;Simon Schropp;Pierre-Louis Francois Vezina

  • Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Much is it Worth and Who Pays?

    Elena Ianchovichina;Aaditya Mattoo;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

    Kishore Gawande;Pravin Krishna;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Regional Integration and Lobbying for Tariffs Against Nonmembers

    Olivier Cadot;Jaime de Melo;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Agricultural Tariffs or Subsidies: Which Are More Important for Developing Economies?

    Bernard Hoekman;Francis Ng;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • TRADE OPENNESS AND CO2 EMISSIONS IN TUNISIA

    Houssem Eddine Chebbi;Marcelo Olarreaga;Habib Zitouna

  • Trade and production, 1976-99

    Alessandro Nicita;Marcelo Olarreaga

  • Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions

    Hiau Looi Kee;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga;Alessandro Nicita

  • China's and India's Challenge to Latin America: Opportunity or Threat?

    Daniel Lederman;Marcelo Olarreaga;Guillermo E. Perry

  • LOBBYING COMPETITION OVER TRADE POLICY*: counterlobbying over trade policy

    Kishore Gawande;Pravin Krishna;Pravin Krishna;Pravin Krishna;Marcelo Olarreaga;Marcelo Olarreaga

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Hoekman
Bernard Hoekman European University Institute
Jaime de Melo
Jaime de Melo University of Geneva
Aaditya Mattoo
Aaditya Mattoo World Bank
Maurice Schiff
Maurice Schiff Institute of Labor Economics
Kamal Saggi
Kamal Saggi Vanderbilt University
Caglar Ozden
Caglar Ozden World Bank
Antonio Estache
Antonio Estache Université Libre de Bruxelles
Luc Laeven
Luc Laeven European Central Bank

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