Johar Arrieta Vidal
PhD Candidate in Economics — University of Michigan
Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Computational Economics
Contact: joharav@umich.edu
I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on how households and firms respond to institutional frictions such as multi-currency pricing and innovation incentives. Previously, I worked in the Monetary Policy Division of the Central Bank of Peru and studied Economics at Universidad del Pacífico.
Working Papers
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
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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.
