Soledad ZIGNAGO Senior Economist Banque

Soledad ZIGNAGO
August 2nd, 2012
Senior Economist
Banque de France
DGEI-DERIE-SEMSI
soledad.zignago at banque-france.fr
http://soledad.zignago.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Other personal web pages:
Banque de France, Google Scholar Citations, IDEAS RePEc
Born on October 2, 1970, in Montevideo
Uruguayan and Spanish nationalities
One child
Work Experience
Sept. 2010
Banque de France, Senior Economist in the International Macroeconomics
Division.
International trade, global imbalances and G20 issues.
2009-2010
BBVA Research, Principal Economist in the Emerging Economies Unit.
Cross-section analysis of emerging markets and international trade outlook.
2000–2009
CEPII, Economist on International Trade.
Specialization, export performance, competitiveness, quality, prices, market access
issues. In charge of international trade databases.
1999-2000
COE, CCIP, Research Assistant.
Intra-firm trade and Asian competition.
1998-2002
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (TEAM), Research fellow on relationships
between FDI and trade in a regional integration framework & Lecturer
(international trade, mathematics and statistics).
1993
Inter-American Development Bank, Summer Internship and Consultancy.
Education
2006
PhD Thesis, “Indirect Measures of Access to World Markets”, University Paris 1,
proposing new methodologies to assess revealed market access at the most
detailed level and for all countries.
Advisor: Prof. L. Fontagné.
Jury: R. Faini, M. Jansen, P. Martin, J.-M. Siroën and F. Trionfetti.
1996-1998
DEA in Development and International Economics, University Paris 1.
1992-1996
DEUG, License and Maîtrise in Economic Science, University Paris 11.
1989-1991
Mathématiques Supérieures and Mathématiques Spéciales P’, Lycée Fresnel, Paris
(fellowship from the French Government).
1988
French Baccalauréat and Uruguayan high school degree, scientific options, Lyçée
Français de Montevideo.
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Publications
Articles
• Market Access in Global and Regional Trade (forthcoming), Regional Science and Urban
Economics, with J. de Sousa & T. Mayer.
• Trade in East Asia in ASEAN+3: Structure and Dynamics of Intermediates and Final-Goods
Trading Activity by Technology (2012), Asia Pacific Business Review 18(3), with L. Curran.
• EU Enlargement and the Evolution of European Production Networks (2012), Research in
International Business and Finance 26(2), with L. Curran.
• Regional Integration of Trade in South America: How Far Has it Progressed and in which
Sectors? (2012), International Trade Journal 26(4), with L. Curran.
• Plus grandes, plus fortes, plus loin... Les performances des firmes exportatrices françaises
(2011), Revue Économique 62(4), with M. Crozet & I. Méjean.
• Measure and Determinants of Border Effects of Brazilian States (2009), Papers in Regional
Science 88(4), with M. Daumal.
• Specialisation across Varieties within Products and North-South Competition (2008), Economic
Policy 23, with L. Fontagné & G. Gaulier.
• A Re-evaluation of the Impact of Regional Trade Agreements (2007), International Economics
109(1), with L. Fontagné.
• Border Effects in the Atlantic Triangle (2005), Integration & Trade Journal 22, with T. Mayer.
• Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets? (2005), Canadian Journal of
Economics 38(4), with L. Fontagné & T. Mayer.
• La discrimination commerciale révélée comme mesure désagrégée de l’accès aux marchés
(2002), International Economics 89-90, with G. Gaulier.
• Regionalization and Intra-Industry Trade: An Analysis of Automobile Industry Trade in NAFTA
(2002), Région et développement 16, with S. Montout & J.-L. Mucchielli.
• Commerce et IDE dans un cadre de régionalisation : le cas du Mercosur (2000), Revue
Economique 51(3), with M. Castilho.
Working papers
• Quality versus Price Competition across Countries and Industries (forthcoming), Banque de
France Working Paper, with M. Crozet & S. Hatte.
• European Export Performance (forthcoming), Banque de France Working Paper, with A.
Cheptea A. & L. Fontagné.
• Notes on CEPII’s Distances Measures: The GeoDist Database (2011), CEPII Working Paper 25,
with T. Mayer.
• Plus grandes, plus fortes, plus loin... Les performances des firmes exportatrices françaises
(2010), Banque de France Working Paper 310, with M. Crozet & I. Méjean.
• BACI: International Trade Database at the Product-level. The 1994-2007 Version (2010), CEPII
Working Paper 23, with G. Gaulier.
• The Impact of the Emergence of China on Brazilian International Trade (2010), BBVA Research
Working Paper 10/22, with E. Dos Santos.
• Determinantes del comercio internacional en tiempos de crisis (2010), BBVA Research
Working Paper 10/06.
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• Market Positioning of Varieties in World Trade: is Latin America Losing Out on Asia? (2009),
CEPII Working Paper 09, with N. Mulder & R. Paillacar.
• International Trade Price Indices (2008), CEPII Working Paper 10, with G. Gaulier, J. Martin & I.
Méjean.
• World Trade Competitiveness: A Disaggregated View by Shift-Share Analysis (2005), CEPII
Working Paper 23, with A. Cheptea & G. Gaulier.
• Skills, Technology and Growth: is ICT the Key to Success? An Analysis of ICT Impact on French
Growth (2003), CEPII Working Paper 04, with J. Melka, N. Mulder & L. Nayman.
Other
Journals not listed in Econlit, book chapters and other publications. See my publications webpage
for the list of institutional reports (DG Trade - European Commission, Conseil d’Analyse
Economique, CEPAL, IDE-JETRO, Corporación Andina de Fomento, Commissariat Général du Plan,
Centre d’Observation Economique - CCIP) and my data webpage for the databases developed
(BACI, GeoDist, TradePrices and TradeProd).
• Does the home-region bias of international business vary by industry? An analysis of trade
data by type of product (forthcoming), Critical Perspectives on International Business, with L.
Curran.
• Intermediate Products and the Regionalization of Trade (2011), Multinational Business Review
19(1), with L. Curran.
• The Financial Crisis and Trade – Key Impacts, Interactions and Outcomes (2011), Thunderbird
International Business Review 53(2), with L. Curran.
• The Financial Crisis: Impact on Key Clothing Markets and Suppliers (2010), Journal of Fashion
Marketing and Management 14 (4), with L. Curran.
• Especialización europea en un comercio mundial liderado por los emergentes (2010), Claves
de la Economía Mundial 2010, Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior.
• How Regional is the Supply Chain in the New EU? An Analysis of the Effect of Enlargement on
EU Trade in Intermediate Products (2010), Multinational Business Review 18(1), with L. Curran.
• L’UE face au défi du commerce mondial (2009), L’État de l’Union 2009, Rapport Schuman sur
l’Europe, Fondation Robert Schuman, Éditions Lignes de Repères, with M. Crozet.
• Quality Matters: Everything is (not) Made in China (2008), Vox, 28 March, with L. Fontagné &
G. Gaulier.
• Le marché européen est-il tombé en panne ? (2006), TELOS, November 7, with T. Mayer.
• Intra-Industry Trade and Economic Integration (2006), in D. Hiratsuka, East Asia's De Facto
Economic Integration, Macmillan, with P. Ecochard, L. Fontagné & G. Gaulier.
• The World Market: Market Shares and Export Performances (2004), La Lettre du CEPII 231,
with A. Cheptea & G. Gaulier.
• Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Integration in Mercosur (2004), in Edward M. Graham,
Multinationals and Foreign Investment Economic Development, Palgrave Macmillan, with M.
Castilho.
• Trade Effects of FDI in Mercosur – A Disaggregated Analysis (2002), in P. Giordano, A.
Valladão, & M.-F. Durand, An integrated approach to the EU-Mercosur Association, Presses de
Science Po, with M. Castilho.
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