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Pierre-Louis Vézina

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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics
King's College London
pierre-louis.vezina@kcl.ac.uk
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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

Ethnic Minorities and Trade: The Soviet Union as a Natural Experiment (with Gunes Gokmen and Elena Nickishina), r&r at The World Economy
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, BROOKINGS blog
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)
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