Carlos César Chávez Padilla
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2026
August
The Price of Corruption: Evidence from Lava Jato and the Construction Club in Peru
The Macroeconomics of Automation: Sorting Frictions and the Asymmetry Between Robots and AI
Who Could Have Rational Expectations? Bounds Across People and Information Sets
July
Did the Uruguay Round Spark Innovation? Evidence from Developing Countries Using Patent Data
Terrorism and Regional Development: Evidence from Peru’s Internal War
June
Do Voters Punish Political Instability? — Replication Data
Do Voters Punish Political Instability? Attribution, Electoral Subversion, and Material Disruption in Peru
How Economists Adopt Methods: Entry Barriers, Specialization, and Community Sorting
The Construction Club Cartel — Reconstructed Dataset
March
Missing Mass and Minimum Wages: Distributional Changes around Four Minimum Wage Increases in Peru
Qhawarina — Peru Open Economic Data
February
Qhawarina: Real-Time Economic Monitoring for Peru
Automation Is Not a Sufficient Statistic: Robots, AI, and Inequality
The Two Margins of Economic Coercion: Leverage and Partial Compliance under Imposed Sanctions
Auditing the Challenger: Legal Challenge Records as Adversarially Selected Forensic Samples
Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks in an Administered-Rate Economy: Evidence from Peru
Wider Frontier or Higher Rate? Decomposing Complementary Task Creation Across Automation Frontiers
January
Shifts in Regime, Shifts in Mind: Estimating the Attitudinal Effects of Democratization
When Bad Institutions Meet Good Ones: The Peruvian Puzzle
2025
December
Commodity Booms and Violent Conflict
Import Liberalization, Not Export Expansion
The Anatomy of a Nobel Prize (1969–2025)
January
A Theory of (Illusional) Progress
Relating Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits to Economic Preferences: Decision-Making under Cognitive Shocks and Guessing
2024
December
Electoral Pressure and Political Lying: A Theory of Political Lying
A Simple Mathematical Model of Lying
November
Estimating The Effects Of Financial Liberalization On Governability And Social Stability
June
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Political Instability
January
Cooperation Pay-Off: An Analysis Across Latin America’s Firms
Minimum Wage and Ethnic Gaps
2023
February
Mining Presence and Domestic Violence
January
A Panel VAR Analysis of the Dynamic Impact of Undervaluation on Economic Growth
Does Foreign Investment Improve or Worsen Aggregate Productivity? A Panel VAR Analysis
Domestic Violence, Labor Market, And Minimum Wage: Theory And Evidence from Peru
Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy on Industries
Mining Presence on Inequality, Labor Income, and Poverty
2022
September
Closing Peru’s Ethnic Gaps Amidst Sustained Economic Growth
2020
January
Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate: A Behavioural and Fundamental Dynamic Analysis in Latin American Countries
The impact of El Niño phenomenon on dry forest-dependent communities’ welfare in the northern coast of Peru
The Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on the Real Exchange Rate in Latin America
2018
January
Estimación de los efectos de la violencia física hacia la mujer en la salud familiar en el Perú: 2012–2016