Curriculum Vitae DIEGO ABOAL Institutional Address: Centro de Investigaciones Economicas Uruguay 1242, Montevideo, Uruguay aboal@cinve.org.uy, (598) 2 9003051 Nationality: Education: Uruguay 2009 PhD in Economics, University of Essex, UK 2005 Master of Science in Economics, London School of Economics, UK 2004 Master in Economics, Universidad de la República del Uruguay (UDELAR) 2003 Diploma in Economics, UDELAR 2000 Licentiate in Economics (5 years plus thesis), UDELAR Research interests: Economics of Innovation, Political Economy, Economics of Crime and Violence. Teaching Positions and Experience 2009 Professor. Universidad ORT Uruguay 2002 Professor. UDELAR 2007 2008 Temporary Lecturer (Assistant Professor). Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. 2002 2004 Assistant Professor. Universidad ORT Uruguay 2000 Teaching Assistant. Universidad Católica del Uruguay 1997 2001 Teaching Assistant. UDELAR Non-Teaching Positions 2000 Director (since 2010, previously: research assistant, researcher and senior researcher). Centre for Economic Research (CINVE). Uruguay 2005 Occasional Research Assistant. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE, UK. March-September 2001 2002 Advisor for Macroeconomic and Financial Affairs to the Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay Links with Other Institutions: Researcher of the Red Sur de Investigaciones Económicas
DIEGO ABOAL CURRICULUM VITAE 2 Books (s=in Spanish, e=in English): 2014 1. Innovation and the New Service Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Challenges and Policy Implications. Co-edited with Gustavo Crespi and Luis Rubalcaba. Forthcoming. (s) 2006 2. A Textbook to Understand the Uruguayan Economy. (co-author) Montevideo, CINVE and FCU. (s) 2003 3. Political Economy in Uruguay. Institutions and Political Actors in the Economic Process. Coedited with Juan Andrés Moraes. Montevideo, Ediciones TRILCE. (s) Papers: 2015 1. Cluster Development Policies and Firms Performance, (with Marcelo Perera and Flavia Rovira). Mimeo. (e) 2. Process Tracing of the Uruguayan Cluster Program PACC s Impacts, (with Marcelo Perera and Flavia Rovira). Mimeo. (e) 3. Innovation and Productivity: The Role of ICTs, (with Ezequiel Tacsir). UNU-Merit Working Paper 2015/012. (e) 4. Technological and Non-technological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing Sectors, (with Paula Garda). Forthcoming Economics of Innovation and New Technology. (e) 5. Guest Editor s Introduction: Innovation in the Services Sector, (with Gustavo Crespi and Luis Rubalcaba). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 51(3): 1-3.(e) 6. Does Innovation Destroy Employment in the Services Sector? Evidence from a Developing Country, (with Paula Garda, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 51(3): 558-577.(e) 7. Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity and Employment Generation: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector, (with Paula Garda, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera). Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 51(1): 3-26.(e) 8. Service Innovation in Developing Economies: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean, (with Luis Rubalcaba and Paula Garda). Forthcoming Journal of Development Studies. (e) 9. The Cost of Crime and Violence in Five Latin American countries, (with Bibiana Lanzilotta, Magdalena Dominguez and Maren Vairo). Revise and Resubmit European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. (e) 10. Entrepreneurs in Latin America, (with Federico Veneri). Revise and Resubmit Small Business Economics. (e) 11. Does Public Financial Support Stimulate Innovation and Productivity?: An Impact Evaluation, (with Paula Garda). Revista de la CEPAL 115(april): 45-70. (s,e) 2014 1. Contract Enforcement and Investment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence, (with Nelson Noya y Andres Rius). World Development 64: 322-338.(e) 2. The Technological Content of Exports in Uruguay. (with co-authors). CINVE Working Paper 02/2014. (s) 3. Knowledge Networks and Innovation in the Forestry Sector. (with Flavia Rovira and Federico Veneri). Red Sur, Serie de Documento del Reporte Anual 2014, Estudio Pais 4: Uruguay. (s) 4. Electoral Systems and Economic Growth. Submitted.(e) 5. Innovation and Productivity in Agricultural Firms: Evidence from a Farm-Level Innovation Survey (with Mario Mondelli and Maren Vairo). Mimeo.
DIEGO ABOAL CURRICULUM VITAE 3 6. Innovation in Uruguay: Diagnosis and Policy Proposals, (with Pablo Angelelli, Gustavo Crespi, Andres Lopez and Maren Vairo). Red Sur Working Paper 12/2014. (s) 2013 7. Policies to Support Innovation in the Service Sector in Uruguay, (with Paula Garda and Maren Vairo). CINVE Working Paper 02/2013. (s) 8. Evaluation of the Externalities of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Criminal Activity: the Case of Uruguay (with Marcelo Perera). (s) 9. The Cost of Crime in Paraguay, (with Bibiana Lanzilotta and Victor Vazquez). Mimeo. (s) 10. The Cost of Crime in Uruguay, (with Jorge Campanella and Bibiana Lanzilotta). IDB Working Paper IDB-WP-408. (s) 2012 11. Technological and Non-technological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay, (with Paula Garda). IDB Discussion Paper No. IDB-DP- 264. (e) 2011 12. Innovation, Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Services Sector in Uruguay, (with Paula Garda, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera). IDB Technical Notes No. IDB-TN-335. 13. Shadow Exchange Rate for Uruguay, (with Paula Cobas). Planning and Budget Office of Uruguay, mimeo. (s) 2010 14. Waiting for a Miracle: The Trap of the Fixed Exchange Rate in the Southern Cone Crises, (with Alvaro Angeriz and Dardo Curti). (e) 15. The Legislative in the Budget Process in Uruguay, (with Flavia Rovira and Fabricio Carneiro). (s) 2009 16. Robust Monetary Policy in an Emerging Economy, (with Alvaro Angeriz). (e) 17. An Economic Theory of Electoral Systems. (e) 18. Political Institutions and Economic Growth in the World: 1950-2000.(e) 2008 19. Fiscal Space for Growth in Uruguay, (with Bibiana Lanzilota and Marcelo Perera), mimeo.(s) 2007 20. Crime and Violence in Uruguay: Causes and Policies, (with Fernando Lorenzo and Marcelo Perera), mimeo.(s) 21. Financial Integration in the Mercosur (with Bibiana Lanzilota and Marcelo Perera), mimeo. (s) 22. The Uruguayan Financial System (with Bibiana Lanzilota and Marcelo Perera), mimeo. (s) 2005 23. Endogenous Exchange Rate Policy: An Application of Markov- Switching Regime Models, mimeo. (s) 24. The Elasticity of Substitution in Demand for Non-Tradable Goods: the Case of Uruguay. (with Fernando Lorenzo and Rosa Osimani), IDB Research Network Working Paper R480. (e) 25. Optimal Monetary Policy Rule for a Small, Open and Dollarized Economy (with Fernando Lorenzo), Revista de Economía of Central Bank of Uruguay (CBU) 12(1). (s) 2003 26. Inflation Targeting in Uruguay: An Analysis of the Transmission Channels of the Economic Policy, (with Fernando Lorenzo and Nelson Noya) in Revista de Economía of CBU 10 (1). (s) 27. Rules versus Discretion. The Monetary Policy in Uruguay between 1920 and 2000. (with Gabriel Oddone), presented at the XVIII Annual Meeting of the CBU. (s) 28. Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Uruguay, Working paper 02/03, Institute of Economics, UDELAR. (s)
DIEGO ABOAL CURRICULUM VITAE 4 2002 29. Microeconomic Foundations of the Incomplete Nominal Adjustment: A Survey of the New-Classic and New-Keynesian Theories. UDELAR, mimeo. (s) 2001 30. The Elasticity of the Demand for Gasoline in Uruguay: An Application of Error Correction Models, mimeo. (s) 2000 31. Is the Exchange Rate Politically Manipulated During Elections? The Evidence from Uruguay since 1920, (with Andrs Rius and Fernando Lorenzo), Working Paper 18/00, Department of Economics, UDELAR. (s) (e) Chapters in Books: 2012 1. The Central Bank and the Monetary Policy in Uruguay, Ch. 4 in Red Mercosur, Enrique Iglesias, Intuicion y Etica en la Construccion del Futuro. Mercosur Economic Research Network.(s) 2. Dutch Desease in Uruguay? (with Bibiana Lanzilotta and Santiago Rego), Ch. 7 in R. Albrieu, A. Lpez and G. Rozenwurcel (Coordinators), Natural Resources as a Lever for Development in South America: Fiction or Reality?. Mercosur Economic Research Network.(s) 2006 3. De Jure and De Facto Floating? The Pos Crisis Monetary Policy in Uruguay, (with Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera), in Macroeconomic Coordination in Mercosur. Mercosur Economic Research Network.(s) 4. Monetary Cooperation in MERCOSUR: Outcomes from a Simplified Model, (with Ana Laura Badagian and Fernando Lorenzo), in F. Lorenzo (coord.), Bases for the Macroeconomic Cooperation in the Mercosur. Buenos Aires. Editorial Fin de Siglo. (s) 2005 5. Economic Policy Politics of the First Left Wing Government in Uruguay. In Buquet, D. ed. Elections 2004-2005. The Electoral Cycle and the Beginning of the New Government. Montevideo, Editorial Banda Oriental. (s) 2004 6. Macroeconomic Equilibria and Economic Policy. (with Fernando Lorenzo), chapter 2 in Uruguay 2005: Economic Policy Proposals. Montevideo, Editorial Banda Oriental. (s) 2003 7. Introduction. (with Juan Andrs Moraes), in Aboal and Moraes eds. (see books). (s) 8. Exchange Rate Policy and Partisan Policy. (with Andrs Rius and Fernando Lorenzo), Chapter 2 in Aboal and Moraes eds.(see books). (s) 9. The Political Economy of the Budget Deficit in Uruguay. (with Fernando Lorenzo, Juan Andrs Moraes and Gabriel Oddone), Chapter 1 in Aboal and Moraes eds. (see books). (s) 2000 10. Fiscal Decentralization in Uruguay: An Evaluation. (with Fernando Lorenzo), in Finanzas Pblicas y Descentralizacin (2000), Dionisio Borda ed., Serie Polticas Pblicas, CADEP - International Development Research Center (Canada), 55-81. (s) Referee, Editor: 2013 1. Guest Editor: Special Issue on Innovation in the Services Sector, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 2. Referee: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. 2012 3. Referee: Journal of Institutional Economics. 4. Referee: Book for Edward Elgar Publishing. 5. Referee: Cuaderno de Economia de la UCUDAL Miscellanea: Summer Schools and Short Courses 2012 Advanced Training Sessions on Systematic Review Methodology. Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Copenhagen
DIEGO ABOAL CURRICULUM VITAE 5 2009 European School on New Institutional Economics, Corsica Time Series Modelling and Analysis, Queen Mary, University of London References: Languages Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent) Computer Skills (Econometrics) Stata, Matlab, Eviews, Demetra, PcGive and SPSS Available upon request