Francisco J. Buera

Washington University in St. Louis

One Brookings Drive

Campus Box 1208

Saint Louis, MO MO 63130-4899

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National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (29)

1.

The Monetary and Fiscal History of Argentina: 1960-2017

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Mar 2019
Francisco J. Buera and Juan Pablo Nicolini
Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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The Macroeconomics of Microfinance

FRB of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2013-034A
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Nov 2013
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis
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microfinance, entrepreneurship, general equilibrium effect

The Macroeconomics of Microfinance

NBER Working Paper No. w17905
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis
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The Rise of the Service Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w14822
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski
Washington University in St. Louis and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics
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Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity

Banco de Portugal Working Paper No. 6
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 13 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2018
Francisco J. Buera and Sudipto Karmakar
Washington University in St. Louis and Bank of England
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Sovereign debt, Leverage, Maturity structure, Spillovers

Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity

Bank of England Working Paper No. 814 (2019)
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Aug 2019
Francisco J. Buera and Sudipto Karmakar
Washington University in St. Louis and Bank of England
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sovereign debt, leverage, maturity structure, spillovers

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Citation 13

The Global Diffusion of Ideas

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2016-13
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 01 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2019
Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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The Global Diffusion of Ideas

NBER Working Paper No. w21844
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2023
Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Scale and the Origins of Structural Change

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2008-06
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Aug 2008
Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski
Washington University in St. Louis and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics
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structural change, efficient scale, home production

Liquidity Traps and Monetary Policy: Managing a Credit Crunch

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2014-14
Posted: 14 Jun 2021
Francisco J. Buera and Juan Pablo Nicolini
Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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Liquidity Traps and Monetary Policy: Managing a Credit Crunch

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2014-14
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Dec 2014
Francisco J. Buera and Juan Pablo Nicolini
Washington University in St. Louis and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Liquidity trap; Credit crunch; Collateral constraints; Ricardian Equivalence

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The Rise of Services: The Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply

NBER Working Paper No. w19372
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Min Qiang Zhao
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Xiamen University - Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)
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Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors

NBER Working Paper No. w14914
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis
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The Dynamics of Development: Innovation and Reallocation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8505
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Francisco J. Buera and Roberto N. Fattal Jaef
Washington University in St. Louis and World Bank
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Models of Idea Flows

NBER Working Paper No. w14135
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 30 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2022
Fernando Alvarez, Francisco J. Buera and Robert E. Lucas
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration

NBER Working Paper No. w16400
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2023
Francisco J. Buera and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
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Skill Biased Structural Change

NBER Working Paper No. w21165
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 May 2015 Last Revised: 01 May 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Richard Rogerson
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade

NBER Working Paper No. w19667
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2023
Fernando Alvarez, Francisco J. Buera and Robert E. Lucas
University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Citation 21

Learning the Wealth of Nations

NBER Working Paper No. w14595
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2022
Washington University in St. Louis, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Learning the Wealth of Nations

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8030
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 22 Nov 2010
Washington University in St. Louis, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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beliefs, development, growth, market-oriented policy

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The Stable Transformation Path

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2020-23
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Oct 2020
Washington University in St. Louis, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Growth, Investment Dynamics, Non-balanced Growth

The Stable Transformation Path

NBER Working Paper No. w27731
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Northwestern University and Independent
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The Stable Transformation Path

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15351
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Northwestern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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growth, investment dynamics, Non-balanced Growth

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Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: a Macro-Development Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w21107
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis
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Citation 8

The Economic Ripple Effects of Covid-19

NBER Working Paper No. w28704
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2023
Washington University in St. Louis, World Bank, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Washington University in St. Louis
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The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16071
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 14 May 2021
Washington University in St. Louis, World Bank, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Washington University in St. Louis
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Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

NBER Working Paper No. w17775
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2023
Francisco J. Buera and Benjamin Moll
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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From Micro to Macro Development

NBER Working Paper No. w28423
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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From Micro to Macro Development

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15775
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2022
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms

NBER Working Paper No. w15268
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2023
Francisco J. Buera and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
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Sectoral Development Multipliers

FRB Richmond Working Paper No. 24-2
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Mar 2024
Francisco J. Buera and Nicholas Trachter
Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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Sectoral policy, technology, economic development

Sectoral Development Multipliers

NBER Working Paper No. w32230
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Mar 2024
Francisco J. Buera and Nicholas Trachter
Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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Taking Stock of the Evidence on Micro-Financial Interventions

NBER Working Paper No. w22674
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis
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Anatomy of a Credit Crunch: From Capital to Labor Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w19997
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2023
Francisco J. Buera, Roberto Naim Fattal Jaef and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, World Bank and Washington University in St. Louis
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The Rule of Law, Firm Size, and Family Firms

Economic Synopses, No. 19, 2022
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 30 Jun 2022
Francisco J. Buera, Siddhartha Sanghi and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
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rule of law, firm size, family firms

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Big Push in Distorted Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w28561
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2023
Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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Big Push in Distorted Economies

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15910
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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Idea Flows and Economic Growth

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 10, pp. 315-345, 2018
Posted: 07 Sep 2018
Francisco J. Buera and Robert E. Lucas
Washington University in St. Louis and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

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Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macrodevelopment Perspective

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 409-436, 2015
Posted: 07 Aug 2015
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Washington University in St. Louis

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Essays on Entrepreneurship and Borrowing Constraints

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign' s Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 24 Nov 2009
Francisco J. Buera
Washington University in St. Louis

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Savings (personal), Income, Self-employment, Career choices, Poverty, Wealth, Access to capital, Wage workers