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Fernando Álvarez-Parra
(Fernando Alvarez-Parra)

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First Name:Fernando
Middle Name:Aristides
Last Name:Alvarez-Parra
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RePEc Short-ID:pal696
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Affiliation

(90%) Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) - Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina

Caracas, Venezuela
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(10%) Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales
Universidad Central de Venezuela

Caracas, Venezuela
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Research output

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Working papers

  1. Álvarez, Fernando & St. Aubyn, Miguel, 2014. "Government Spending Efficiency in Latin America: A Frontier Approach," Research Department working papers 769, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
  2. Álvarez, Fernando, 2012. "Diferencias en la calidad de la educación e ineficiencia: un análisis basado en el método de frontera estocástica," Research Department working papers 242, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
  3. Álvarez, Fernando & Brandao-Marques, Luis & Toledo, Manuel, 2012. "Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: the Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions," Research Department working papers 243, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
  4. Álvarez, Fernando & Meléndez, Marcela, 2010. "Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia," Research Department working papers 213, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
  5. Manuel Toledo & Luis B. Marques & Fernando A. Alvarez, 2009. "Excess Volatility of Consumption in Developed and Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods," 2009 Meeting Papers 142, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  6. Fernando Alvarez-Parra & Juan M. Sanchez, 2009. "Unemployment insurance with a hidden labor market," Working Paper 09-09, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
  7. Alvarez-Parra, Fernando A. & Sanchez, Juan M., 2006. "Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with a Hidden Labor Market," MPRA Paper 2531, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  8. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Ortega, Daniel & Berniell, Lucila & Álvarez, Fernando & Mejía, Daniel & Castillo, Juan Camilo & Brassiolo, Pablo, . "Towards a safer Latin America. A new perspective to prevent and control crime," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 708, May.
  9. Berniell, Lucila & de la Mata, Dolores & Bernal, Raquel & Camacho, Adriana & Barrera-Osorio, Felipe & Álvarez, Fernando & Brassiolo, Pablo & Vargas, Juan, . "RED 2016. More Skills for Work and Life: The contributions of Families, Schools, Jobs, and the Social Environment," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 1060, May.
  10. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Brassiolo, Pablo & Arreaza, Adriana & Berniell, Lucila & Álvarez, Fernando & Ortega, Daniel & Kamiya, Marco, . "RED 2013: Emprendimientos en América Latina. Desde la subsistencia hacia la transformación productiva," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 168, May.
  11. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Berniell, Lucila & Álvarez, Fernando & Ortega, Daniel & Penfold, Michael & Arreaza, Adriana, . "RED 2012: Finanzas públicas para el desarrollo. Fortaleciendo la conexión entre ingresos y gastos," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 169, May.
  12. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Arreaza, Adriana & Rodríguez, Pedro & Álvarez, Fernando & Ortega, Daniel & Penfold, Michael, . "RED 2011: Servicios financieros para el desarrollo. Promoviendo el acceso en América Latina," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 170, May.
  13. Susanne Forstner & Fernando Alvarez-Parra & Arpad Abraham, "undated". "The Effect of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality with On-the-Job Search and Employer Competition," 2013 Meeting Papers 1034, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  14. Brassiolo, Pablo & Sanguinetti, Pablo & Álvarez, Fernando & Quintero, Luis & Berniell, Lucila & de la Mata, Dolores & Maris, Lesbia & Ortega, Daniel, . "RED 2015. A More Effective State. Capacities for designing, implementing and evaluating public policies," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 830, May.

Articles

  1. Eduardo Zambrano & Fernando Alvarez-Parra & Adriana Arreaza, 2018. "Should a Central Bank Transfer Its Profits to the Treasury?," Economía Journal, The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association - LACEA, vol. 0(Spring 20), pages 87-119, May.
  2. Álvarez-Parra, Fernando & Brandao-Marques, Luis & Toledo, Manuel, 2013. "Durable goods, financial frictions, and business cycles in emerging economies," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(6), pages 720-736.
  3. Francisco Sáez & Fernando Alvarez & Jesús Morales & Giovanni Guedez, 2011. "Expectations, Inter-Sectorial Relationships and the Business Cycle," Ensayos Económicos, Central Bank of Argentina, Economic Research Department, vol. 1(63), pages 97-147, July - Se.
  4. Álvarez-Parra, Fernando & Sánchez, Juan M., 2009. "Unemployment insurance with a hidden labor market," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(7), pages 954-967, October.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Álvarez, Fernando & Brandao-Marques, Luis & Toledo, Manuel, 2012. "Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: the Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions," Research Department working papers 243, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.

    Cited by:

    1. Mr. Leonardo Martinez & Juan Carlos Hatchondo & Cesar Sosa Padilla, 2011. "Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk," IMF Working Papers 2011/070, International Monetary Fund.
    2. Leonardo Martinez & Juan Hatchondo, 2017. "Sovereign Cocos and the Reprofiling of Debt Payments," 2017 Meeting Papers 1435, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    3. Masahiro Kodama, 2013. "External Shocks and High Volatility in Consumption in Low-Income Countries," The Developing Economies, Institute of Developing Economies, vol. 51(3), pages 278-302, September.

  2. Manuel Toledo & Luis B. Marques & Fernando A. Alvarez, 2009. "Excess Volatility of Consumption in Developed and Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods," 2009 Meeting Papers 142, Society for Economic Dynamics.

    Cited by:

    1. Naoussi, Claude Francis & Tripier, Fabien, 2013. "Trend shocks and economic development," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 29-42.

  3. Fernando Alvarez-Parra & Juan M. Sanchez, 2009. "Unemployment insurance with a hidden labor market," Working Paper 09-09, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

    Cited by:

    1. Carlos medina & Jairo Núñez & Jorge Andrés Tamayo, 2013. "The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment," Borradores de Economia 750, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    2. Wang, Cheng, 1995. "Dynamic Insurance with Private Information and Balanced Budgets," Staff General Research Papers Archive 5249, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    3. Vargas Juliana Mesén & Linden Bruno Van der, 2019. "Why Cash Transfer Programs Can Both Stimulate and Slow Down Job Finding," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Sciendo & Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-27, June.
    4. Pontus Rendahl, 2012. "Asset‐Based Unemployment Insurance," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 53(3), pages 743-770, August.
    5. David L. Fuller & Marianna Kudlyak & Damba Lkhagvasuren, 2013. "Productivity insurance: the role of unemployment benefits in a multi-sector model," Working Paper 13-11, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
    6. Juliana Mesén Vargas & Bruno Van der Linden, 2018. "Is there always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints," CESifo Working Paper Series 7044, CESifo.
    7. Doligalski, Pawel; Rojas, Luis E., 2016. "Optimal Redistribution with a Shadow Economy," Economics Working Papers ECO2016/11, European University Institute.
    8. Cirelli, Fernando & Espino, Emilio & Sánchez, Juan M., 2021. "Designing unemployment insurance for developing countries," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    9. Espino, Emilio & Sánchez, Juan M., 2013. "Unemployment Insurance in High Informality Countries," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 4550, Inter-American Development Bank.
    10. Jeremy Schwartz, 2012. "Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle: What Adjustments are Needed?," EcoMod2012 3674, EcoMod.
    11. Wang, C. & Williamson, S., 1995. "Unemployment Insurance with Moral Hazard in a Dynamic Economy," GSIA Working Papers 1995-13, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business.
    12. Finkelstein-Shapiro, Alan & Sarzosa, Miguel, 2012. "Unemployement Protection for Informal Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 4542, Inter-American Development Bank.
    13. Esteban-Pretel, Julen & Kitao, Sagiri, 2021. "Labor Market Policies in a Dual Economy," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    14. Martín Gonzalez Rozada & Lucas Ronconi & Hernan Ruffo, 2011. "Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina," Research Department Publications 4759, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.
    15. David L. Fuller & B. Ravikumar & Yuzhe Zhang, 2015. "Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(2), pages 249-290, April.
    16. Ho Christine, 2019. "Optimal Disability Insurance with Informal Child Care," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 19(2), pages 1-42, April.
    17. David Bardey & Fernando Jaramillo, 2011. "Unemployment insurance/severance payments and informality in developing countries," Economics Working Paper from Condorcet Center for political Economy at CREM-CNRS 2012-06-ccr, Condorcet Center for political Economy.
    18. Romain Duval & Prakash Loungani, 2021. "Designing Labor Market Institutions in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: A Review of Evidence and IMF Policy Advice," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 63(1), pages 31-83, March.
    19. David Bardey & Fernando Jaramillo, 2011. "Unemployment insurance and informality in developing countries," Documentos de Trabajo 9015, Universidad del Rosario.
    20. Amélie Barbier-Gauchard & Francesco De Palma & Giuseppe Diana, 2013. "Why could Northern labor market flexibility save the eurozone ?," Working Papers of BETA 2013-09, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg.
    21. Taskin, Temel, 2011. "Unemployment insurance and home production," MPRA Paper 34878, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    22. Martin Gonzalez-Rozada & Hernan Ruffo, 2014. "The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Under High Informality: Evidence from Argentina," Department of Economics Working Papers wp201403, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
    23. Mariano Bosch & Julen Esteban-Pretel, 2013. "The Labor Market Effects of Introducing Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with High Informality," GRIPS Discussion Papers 12-20, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
    24. Jeremy Schwartz, 2013. "Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle: What Adjustments are Needed?," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 79(3), pages 680-702, January.
    25. David Bardey & Fermando Jaramillo & Ximena Pena, 2013. "Unemployment insurance in the presence of an informal," Documentos de Trabajo 11014, Universidad del Rosario.

  4. Alvarez-Parra, Fernando A. & Sanchez, Juan M., 2006. "Unemployment Insurance in an Economy with a Hidden Labor Market," MPRA Paper 2531, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Cited by:

    1. Luz Adriana Flórez, 2014. "The Efficiency of the Informal Sector on the Search and Matching Framework," Borradores de Economia 11954, Banco de la Republica.
    2. José Francisco Bellod Redondo, 2017. "Prestaciones por desempleo y tasa de paro en España," Revista de Economia Critica, Asociacion de Economia Critica, vol. 23, pages 60-81.

  5. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Ortega, Daniel & Berniell, Lucila & Álvarez, Fernando & Mejía, Daniel & Castillo, Juan Camilo & Brassiolo, Pablo, . "Towards a safer Latin America. A new perspective to prevent and control crime," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 708, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Santiago Tobón, 2017. "Condiciones de Reclusión y Reincidencia: Evidencia de una expansión de cupos carcelario," Documentos CEDE 15293, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.

  6. Berniell, Lucila & de la Mata, Dolores & Bernal, Raquel & Camacho, Adriana & Barrera-Osorio, Felipe & Álvarez, Fernando & Brassiolo, Pablo & Vargas, Juan, . "RED 2016. More Skills for Work and Life: The contributions of Families, Schools, Jobs, and the Social Environment," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 1060, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Berniell, Inés & Fernández, Raquel & Krutikova, Sonya, 2023. "Gender Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 13286, Inter-American Development Bank.
    2. Orazio Attanasio & Sarah Cattan & Costas Meghir, 2021. "Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty," NBER Working Papers 29362, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Inés Berniell & Raquel Fernández & Sonya Krutikova, 2024. "Gender Inequality in Latin America," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0338, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

  7. Sanguinetti, Pablo & Berniell, Lucila & Álvarez, Fernando & Ortega, Daniel & Penfold, Michael & Arreaza, Adriana, . "RED 2012: Finanzas públicas para el desarrollo. Fortaleciendo la conexión entre ingresos y gastos," Report on Economic Development, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica, number 169, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Inés Berniell & Dolores de la Mata & Matilde Pinto Machado, 2020. "The Impact of a Permanent Income Shock on the Situation of Women in the Household: The Case of a Pension Reform in Argentina," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 68(4), pages 1295-1343.

Articles

  1. Álvarez-Parra, Fernando & Brandao-Marques, Luis & Toledo, Manuel, 2013. "Durable goods, financial frictions, and business cycles in emerging economies," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(6), pages 720-736.

    Cited by:

    1. Mădălin Viziniuc, 2017. "Potential Gains from Cooperation Between Monetary and Macroprudential Policies: The Case of an Emerging Economy," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(5), pages 420-452, September.
    2. Aydan Dogan, 2019. "Online Appendix to "Investment Specific Technology Shocks and Emerging Market Business Cycle Dynamics"," Online Appendices 18-377, Review of Economic Dynamics.
    3. Boileau, Martin & Normandin, Michel, 2017. "The price of imported capital and consumption fluctuations in emerging economies," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 67-81.
    4. Letendre, Marc-André & Obaid, Sabreena, 2020. "Emerging economy business cycles: Interest rate shocks vs trend shocks," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 526-545.
    5. Wataru Miyamoto & Thuy Lan Nguyen, 2016. "Business Cycles in Small, Open Economies: Evidence from Panel Data Between 1900 and 2013," Staff Working Papers 16-48, Bank of Canada.
    6. Chen, Kuan-Jen & Chu, Angus C. & Lai, Ching-Chong, 2014. "Home Production and Small Open Economy Business Cycles," MPRA Paper 59020, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Okubo, Masakatsu, 2023. "Model uncertainty, economic development, and welfare costs of business cycles," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    8. Marc-Andre Letendre & Sabreena Obaid, 2019. "Emerging Economy Business Cycles: Interest Rate Shocks vs Trend Shocks," Department of Economics Working Papers 2019-07, McMaster University.
    9. Jan-Philipp Dueber, 2018. "Endogenous Time-Varying Volatility and Emerging Market Business Cycles," Studies in Economics 1811, School of Economics, University of Kent.
    10. Mr. Leonardo Martinez & Juan Carlos Hatchondo & Cesar Sosa Padilla, 2011. "Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk," IMF Working Papers 2011/070, International Monetary Fund.
    11. Hatchondo, Juan Carlos & Martinez, Leonardo & Onder, Yasin Kursat, 2017. "Non-defaultable debt and sovereign risk," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 217-229.
    12. Pham, Binh T. & Sala, Hector & Silva, José I., 2018. "Growth and real business cycles in Vietnam and the ASEAN-5. Does the trend shock matter?," MPRA Paper 90297, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Juan Carlos Hatchondo & Mr. Leonardo Martinez & Kursat Onder & Mr. Francisco Roch, 2022. "Sovereign Cocos," IMF Working Papers 2022/078, International Monetary Fund.
      • Juan Carlos Hatchondo & Leonardo Martinez & Yasin Kürsat Önder & Francisco Roch, 2022. "Sovereign Cocos," Working Papers 139, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    14. Saroj Bhattarai & Arpita Chatterjee & Gautham Udupa, 2024. "Food, Fuel, and Facts: Distributional Effects of Global Price Shocks," CAMA Working Papers 2024-45, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    15. Aydan Dogan, 2017. "Investment Specific Technology Shocks and Emerging Market Business Cycle Dynamics," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2017/359, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
    16. Shin, Wonmun, 2022. "A New angle on excess consumption volatility in emerging countries: Does house price matter?," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).
    17. Hewei Shen, 2016. "Financial Crises and the Role of Debt Maturity for Emerging Economies," CAEPR Working Papers 2017-012, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington.
    18. Takefumi Yamazaki, 2018. "Financial friction sources in emerging economies: Structural estimation of sovereign default models," Discussion papers ron303, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan.
    19. Hwang, Seolwoong & Kim, Soyoung, 2022. "Real business cycles in emerging countries: Are Asian business cycles different from Latin American business cycles?," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    20. Wataru Miyamoto & Thuy Lan Nguyen, 2017. "Business Cycles In Small Open Economies: Evidence From Panel Data Between 1900 And 2013," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 58(3), pages 1007-1044, August.

  2. Álvarez-Parra, Fernando & Sánchez, Juan M., 2009. "Unemployment insurance with a hidden labor market," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(7), pages 954-967, October.
    See citations under working paper version above.

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  1. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (2) 2007-04-09 2009-08-22
  2. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (2) 2007-04-09 2009-08-22
  3. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (2) 2007-04-09 2009-08-22
  4. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (1) 2009-08-22
  5. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (1) 2007-04-09

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