Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics
King's College London
pierre-louis.vezina@kcl.ac.uk
IDEAS RePEc | Google Scholar
CV (pdf)
Research interests: Development (as in growth, mostly), trade, corruption, migration...
Affiliated with OxCarre and CSAE.
King's College London
pierre-louis.vezina@kcl.ac.uk
IDEAS RePEc | Google Scholar
CV (pdf)
Research interests: Development (as in growth, mostly), trade, corruption, migration...
Affiliated with OxCarre and CSAE.
ONGOING PROJECTS
- Pre-boom boom in Mozambique (with Gerhard Toews) (IGC funded project)
- The lasting shadow of the Gulag (with Luciano Ciravegna and Gerhard Toews)
WORKING PAPERS
- The imperial roots of global trade (with Gunes Gokmen and Wessel Vermeulen), FREIT Working Paper 1229
- Dutch Disease Resistance: Evidence from Indonesian Firms (with Jim Cust and Torfinn Harding) (slides), OxCarre Research Paper 192
- Resource discoveries and FDI bonanzas (with Gerhard Toews), OxCarre Research Paper 177, RES Media Briefing
PUBLISHED PAPERS
- Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment (with Chris Parsons), Economic Journal (forthcoming), Media: VoxEU, WSJ, tweets, OPEN/Tent Report on refugees, Video of my talk at the New Economic School in Moscow
- Israel's open-secret trade (with Lorenzo Rotunno) (slides), Review of World Economics/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (2017)
- Production fragmentation, upstreamness and value added (with Tadashi Ito) (slides), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (2016)
- The trade consequences of pricey oil (with David von Below), IMF Economic Review (2016), Media: VoxEU, WSJ, WEF, austrade.gov.au
- There goes gravity: eBay and the death of distance (with Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Simon Schropp), Economic Journal (2016)
- Sidekicks:
- eBay's anatomy (with Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarrega and Simon Schropp) , Economics Letters (2013)
- Internet technology and the extensive margin of trade: Evidence from eBay in emerging economies (with Andreas Lendle), Review of Development Economics (2015)
- Media: Bloomberg, VoxEU.org, NewStatesman, The Economist, IDG.se (Swedish), DisCo, RES Media Briefing, World Bank 2016 World Development Report, OECD Observer, President Obama's Weekly Internet Address (around 0:55)
- Sidekicks:
- Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual value-added flows (with Tadashi Ito and Lorenzo Rotunno) (slides) , Review of International Economics (2016)
- Quota-hopping in-bond diversion (with Lorenzo Rotunno), Economic Inquiry (2014)
- Race-to-the-bottom tariff cutting, Review of International Economics (2014), in the blogosphere: Trade Diversion
- Illegal trade in natural resources: Evidence from missing exports, International Economics (2014)
- The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports (with Lorenzo Rotunno and Zheng Wang), Journal of Development Economics (2013), in the Press and blogosphere: Financial Times (1, 2), Daily Maverick (South Africa), Trade Diversion, CSAE blog, VoxEU.org, African Business
- Chinese networks and tariff evasion (with Lorenzo Rotunno), The World Economy (2012), in the blogosphere: VoxEU.org. Extras available.
- How migrant networks facilitate trade: Evidence from Swiss exports, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2012), in the Press: "Les Diasporas Commerciales", Le Temps, 2 Feb 2009
SUNDRY PAPERS
- Wouldn't it be nice (to have a bit more inflation)? (obscure paper neither funny nor robust. I think it's robust though)
SHORT NOTES
- Brexit will inevitably hurt UK exports, slowly but surely (LSE Brexit Blog and LSE Business Review) - picked up by the FT.
- Le Quebec doit être ouvert aux nouvelles technologies et connecté au reste du monde (Huffington Post)
- Selling shares of yourself
- Ranking economics departments
- Direct flights or cheaper options?
- Blog posts on smuggling
- Economic growth and the quality of music
TEACHING
International Trade (Slides)
Sundry lecture notes
