Ernesto López-Córdova

Bio

Ernesto López-Córdova is an Economist with the Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division at the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington D.C. His fields of expertise include international trade and macroeconomics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Masters in City Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the IDB he worked at the NAFTA negotiation office in Mexico’s former Ministry of Trade and Industry, and taught at ITAM (Mexico City) and UC Berkeley. Recent publications include "Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era" (co-authored, forthcoming AER) and "Las negociaciones de acceso a los mercados en los tratados de libre comercio de Mexico con Bolivia y Costa Rica" (IDB publication).

Academic Background

  • Ph.D., Economics; University of California, Berkeley, 2000

  • Master in City Planning; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

  • Bachelor of Science, Economics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

Areas of Expertise

  • International trade

  • International macroeconomics

  • North American Free Trade Agreement

Present Position (s)

  • Economist; Integration, Trade, and Hemispheric Issues Division, Inter-American Development Bank

Previous Position (s)  

  • 1992-95: Office for the Negotiation of The North American Free Trade Agreement and Under-Secretariat for International Trade Negotiations, Mexico's Ministry of Trade and Industry. Member of Mexico’s market access negotiation team.

  • Director for Market Access Negotiations, Under-Secretariat for International Trade Negotiations, Mexico's Ministry of Trade and Industry

Other Activities and Memberships

Recent Publications

  • "NAFTA and Mexico's Manufacturing Productivity: An Empirical Investigation Using Micro-Level Data", IDB, mimeo, July 2002.

  • “NAFTA and the Mexican Economy: Analytical Issues and Lessons for the FTAA” INTAL-ITD-STA Occasional Paper 9, July 2001

  • “Las Negociaciones de Acceso a Los Mercados En Los Tratados de Libre Comercio de México con Bolivia Y Costa Rica,” in Antoni Estevadeordal and Carolyn Robert, eds., Las Américas Sin Barreras: Negociaciones Comerciales de Acceso a Mercados, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2001, chapter X, pp. 213– 247

  • “Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard” (Joint with Chris Meissner)American Economic Review (forthcoming). A previous version appeared as Working Paper C00-118. Center for International and Development Economics Research, U.C. Berkeley, November 2000.

  • “Essays in International Economic Policymaking”, PhD dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2000

  • “Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard” (Joint with Chris Meissner), Working Paper C00-118. Center for International and Development Economics Research, U.C. Berkeley, November 2000.

Current Research Projects

  • NAFTA and Mexico’s manufacturing productivity

  • NAFTA and wage inequality in Mexico

  • NAFTA and foreign direct investment

Recommended Links

Economic Research - World Bank
National Bureau of Economic Research
 Center for International Data at UCD

Areas of Interest

  • Globalization

  • Governance

  • International Macroeconomics