Working Papers
"Evaluating the Impact of Export Finance Support on Firm-level Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistan," World Bank Policy Research Paper 9362, August 2020, with F. Defever and G. Varela [Latest version: December 2021] (r&r Canadian Journal of Economics)
"Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-level Uncertainty: Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals," CFCM Working Paper 20/01, January 2020, with Y. Bai and S. Girma. [Latest version: October 2021]
"Trade, Technology Adoption and the Rise of the Skill Premium in Mexico", November 2009.
- Media: [Dawn, August 15, 2020] [Pakistan Development Update: Reviving Exports - The World Bank] [The Express Tribune, November 15, 2021]
"Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-level Uncertainty: Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals," CFCM Working Paper 20/01, January 2020, with Y. Bai and S. Girma. [Latest version: October 2021]
"Trade, Technology Adoption and the Rise of the Skill Premium in Mexico", November 2009.
Work in Progress
"Child Mortality and Free Trade Agreements" with A. Chong and Y. Valdivia
"Unpacking the Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution" with F. Defever
"Exports and Volatility Spillovers" with S. Girma.
"Volatility and Trade in Goods and Services" with S. Girma
"Unpacking the Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution" with F. Defever
"Exports and Volatility Spillovers" with S. Girma.
"Volatility and Trade in Goods and Services" with S. Girma
Publications
"Firm-Destination Heterogeneity and the Distribution of Export Intensity" with F. Defever, Economics Letters, 2022, 110810.
[Preprint version]
"The Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution", with F. Defever Journal of the European Economic Association, 20, 2022, 1347-1394.
[Preprint version]
"All these Worlds are Yours, Except India: The Effectiveness of Cash Subsidies to Export in Nepal", with F. Defever, J.-D. Reyes and G. Varela, European Economic Review, 128, 2020, 103494.
[Preprint version]
"Special Economic Zones and WTO Compliance: Evidence from the Dominican Republic", with F. Defever, J.-D. Reyes and M. E. Sánchez-Martín, Economica, 86, 2019, 532-568.
[Preprint version]
"Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China", with F. Defever, Journal of Development Economics, 126, 2017, 33-51.
[Preprint version] [Online appendix] [GEP Working Paper 2016/03] [CEP Working Paper 1182, 2012]
"Global Engagement and Returns Volatility", with S. Girma and S. Lancheros, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78, 2016, 814-833.
[Preprint version] [Online appendix]
"Gone for Good? Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China: 2002-2013", with F. Defever, World Bank Economic Review, 29, 2015, S125-S144. [Preprint version]
"Credit Constraints and Spillovers from Foreign Firms in China", with N. Agarwal and C. Milner, Journal of Banking & Finance, 48, 2014, 261-275.
[Preprint version]
"The Rise of the Maquiladoras: A Mixed Blessing", with B. Heid and M. Larch, Review of Development Economics, 17, 2013, 252-267.
[Preprint version] [Appendix: model variant with informal sector production]
"Exports, Investment and Firm-level Volatility", Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. 147, 2011, 643-663.
[Preprint version]
"Political Environment and Privatization Prices", with A. Chong and J. Guillen, Public Choice, 142, 2010, 91-110.
[Preprint version]
[Preprint version]
"The Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution", with F. Defever Journal of the European Economic Association, 20, 2022, 1347-1394.
[Preprint version]
- Media: [VoxEU, December 1st 2017]
"All these Worlds are Yours, Except India: The Effectiveness of Cash Subsidies to Export in Nepal", with F. Defever, J.-D. Reyes and G. Varela, European Economic Review, 128, 2020, 103494.
[Preprint version]
"Special Economic Zones and WTO Compliance: Evidence from the Dominican Republic", with F. Defever, J.-D. Reyes and M. E. Sánchez-Martín, Economica, 86, 2019, 532-568.
[Preprint version]
"Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China", with F. Defever, Journal of Development Economics, 126, 2017, 33-51.
[Preprint version] [Online appendix] [GEP Working Paper 2016/03] [CEP Working Paper 1182, 2012]
- Media: [Wall Street Journal - Asia Edition, October 3, 2012] [Le Figaro, December 4, 2012] [Political Insight, December 2012] [Dani Rodrik, January 9, 2013] [VoxEU, January 4, 2013] [Centrepiece Magazine, June 2013] [Washington Examiner, August 12 2014]
"Global Engagement and Returns Volatility", with S. Girma and S. Lancheros, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78, 2016, 814-833.
[Preprint version] [Online appendix]
"Gone for Good? Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China: 2002-2013", with F. Defever, World Bank Economic Review, 29, 2015, S125-S144. [Preprint version]
"Credit Constraints and Spillovers from Foreign Firms in China", with N. Agarwal and C. Milner, Journal of Banking & Finance, 48, 2014, 261-275.
[Preprint version]
"The Rise of the Maquiladoras: A Mixed Blessing", with B. Heid and M. Larch, Review of Development Economics, 17, 2013, 252-267.
[Preprint version] [Appendix: model variant with informal sector production]
"Exports, Investment and Firm-level Volatility", Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. 147, 2011, 643-663.
[Preprint version]
"Political Environment and Privatization Prices", with A. Chong and J. Guillen, Public Choice, 142, 2010, 91-110.
[Preprint version]
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/REPORTS/MISCELLANY
"Why Labour's 'buy British' plan is not going to succeed", The Conversation, July 6, 2021
"Free ports could help Britain take back control and keep trade flowing with the EU", with F. Defever, The Conversation, September 1, 2020
"China's Dual Export Sector", with F. Defever, in B. Zissimos ed. WTO and Economic Development, MIT Press, 2019.
[Preprint version]
"Special Economic Zones, Global Value Chains, and the Degree of Economic Linkages in the Dominican Republic", World Bank Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice Report, February 2017.
[English version] [Version en Español]
"Why Labour's 'buy British' plan is not going to succeed", The Conversation, July 6, 2021
"Free ports could help Britain take back control and keep trade flowing with the EU", with F. Defever, The Conversation, September 1, 2020
"China's Dual Export Sector", with F. Defever, in B. Zissimos ed. WTO and Economic Development, MIT Press, 2019.
[Preprint version]
"Special Economic Zones, Global Value Chains, and the Degree of Economic Linkages in the Dominican Republic", World Bank Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice Report, February 2017.
[English version] [Version en Español]
