2 papers
econ.GN2026
The Behavior of Inventories over the Business Cycle: Evidence across Levels of Development
Juan Manuel Rodriguez Repeti, Danilo Rogelio Trupkin
This paper documents how inventory dynamics vary across levels of development and how they respond to real and financial shocks. Using a balanced panel of 72 small open economies o…
econ.GN2026
Cheaper AI, More Informality? A Dual Labor Market Model for Developing Economies
Gabriel Montes-Rojas, Fernando Toledo, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Repeti
This paper studies what happens when AI gets cheaper, with emphasis on the labor market outcomes, whether it creates formal jobs or whether it pushes workers into informality. We a…