Johar Arrieta Vidal

PhD Candidate in Economics — University of Michigan

Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Computational Economics
Contact: joharav@umich.edu

Working Papers

• The Macroeconomic Impact of Paying in Dollars in Emerging Economies
  • Draft || Slides

Work In Progress

• Innovation, Firm Dynamics and the Advanced-Economy Trap: Evidence from German Establishment Data (with Jorge Zavala)
• Economies of Scope in Transportation and Domestic Trade (with Brian C. Fujiy, Gaurav Khanna, and Brock Rowberry)
• Chinese New Year, Culture, and Dynamics: The Case of Cherry Picking (with Magdalena Martin)

Publications

• Policies for Transactional De-Dollarization: A Laboratory Study (with David Florian, Kristian Lopez Vargas, and Valeria Morales)
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022
  • Published version || Working paper || Slides
  • Abstract

    This paper studies taxes on foreign-currency transactions and local-currency incentives, showing that both interventions reduce transactional dollarization, with stronger effects from local-currency incentives.

    

Policy Analysis

• Modelo de Proyección Trimestral: Una actualización hasta 2019
  • Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Issue 011, 2022
• Proyecciones inmediatas y de corto plazo para la actividad económica en tiempos de la pandemia del COVID-19
  • Revista Moneda, Issue 187, 2021