Publications

Last updated

April 6, 2024

Virginia Robano

Below you can find a list of my publications and contributions to collective work

Books

  • On 21 June 2023 we published the final report on the Feasibility of a data sandbox for FinTech in the Czech Republic. The report is available through the OECD website

  • In 2022 two teams on which I have participated published books that relate to data analysis: one on gender equality in STEM and the other on FinTechs in the Czech Republic.

    • Equidad de género en el ecosistema STEM de Ceibal

The OECD and the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic launched the report on the FinTech ecosystem of the Czech Republic

The OECD and MFCR team Available here

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Published articles

  • Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings in Latin America: an Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014 (12) pp. 339-361 link

  • Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP I, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 62 N. 2, January 2014, pp 339-380

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  • Intergenerational Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay, Latin American Journal of Economics, vol 51 N0 2 pp 195-226, November 2014

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  • The Part-time Premium Enigma: an Assessment of the Chilean Case, Economia, Spring 2014, volume 14, Number 2, pp 29-54

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  • On Intergenerational (Im)mobility in Latin America, Latin American Economic Review 2015, volume 24, issue 1

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  • Unleashing the export potential of Greek SMEs, OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, 2016, Number 41

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  • Financing approaches for tourism SMEs and entrepreneurs (2017) OECD Tourism Papers, 2017/03, OECD Publishing, Paris

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  • Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: a General Framework and an Empirical Application (2014), available as IZA working paper 7593 and as OPHI working paper 65, with Stephen C. Smith

  • On the feasibility of constructing a composite index of Ease to Finance for SMEs and Entrepreneurs (2014), with Jonathan Potter

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  • Public procurement as a driver of innovation and entrepreneurship (2019), with Andrea Bentancor and Gustavo Crespi - Universidad ORT Uruguay, Documento de Investigación Nro 120

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Chapters in books

  • The Role of Public Financial Institutions in Fostering Access to Finance for SMEs and entrepreneurs, chapter 2.5 in Enhancing Financial Accessibility for SMEs: Lessons from recent Crises, (2014) Asian Development Bank, ISBN 978-92-9092-488-1

  • Challenges for SME Finance, lessons from ADB and OECD experiences, chapter 4 in Enhancing Financial Accessibility for SMEs: Lessons from recent Crises, (2014) Asian Development Bank, ISBN 978-92-9092-488-1

  • Case study on Crowdfunding, chapter 5 in New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments (2015) DOI:10.1787/9789264240957-en

  • Access to finance for SMEs and entrepreneurs: Trends and Policies in OECD countries, Chapter 11 (2015). Available here

  • Tourism Policy Review of Mexico, Chapter 5, (Enero 2017) OECD Studies on Tourism, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264266575-en

  • OECD (2018), “Investment and Financing for Sustainable Tourism Development”, OECD Publishing, Paris, forthcoming

Contributions to collective works

  • Panorama Laboral de América Latina y el Caribe, 2019, section 4.1

  • Increasing Productivity in Traditional Small Enterprises, case study of Uruguay (2015), OECD/CFE/SME

  • The measurement of Public Sector Productivity (OECD/GOV, 2015)

  • The Regulatory Environment for SMEs, OECD/CFE/SME (2014)

  • Multidimensional Review of Uruguay: vol 1. Initial Assessment, Development Centre, OECD 2014

  • Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014, OECD

  • Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2014: an OECD Scoreboard

  • Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2015: an OECD Scoreboard

  • Rapport sur l’evolution des PME 2013, Bpifrance