Research interests:
International trade, development, and migration.
Check my IDEAS RePEc or Google Scholar.
My research agenda.
International trade, development, and migration.
Check my IDEAS RePEc or Google Scholar.
My research agenda.
ONGOING PROJECTS
Pre-boom boom in Mozambique (with Gerhard Toews) (IGC funded project)
The deep roots of global trade (with Wessel Vermeulen)
Corruption: The lasting shadow of the Gulag (with Luciano Ciravegna and Gerhard Toews)
Dutch Disease: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia (with Jim Cust and Torfinn Harding) (slides)
The deep roots of global trade (with Wessel Vermeulen)
Corruption: The lasting shadow of the Gulag (with Luciano Ciravegna and Gerhard Toews)
Dutch Disease: Firm-level evidence from Indonesia (with Jim Cust and Torfinn Harding) (slides)
WORKING PAPERS
Resource discoveries and FDI bonanzas (with Gerhard Toews)
OxCarre Research Paper 177, RES Media Briefing
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
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)
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)
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (2016)
Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual value-added flows (with Tadashi Ito and Lorenzo Rotunno) (slides)
Review of International Economics (2016)
Review of International Economics (2016)
The trade consequences of pricey oil (with David von Below)
IMF Economic Review (2016)
Media: VoxEU, WSJ, WEF, austrade.gov.au
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)
Media: Bloomberg, VoxEU.org, NewStatesman, The Economist, IDG.se (Swedish), DisCo, RES Media Briefing
Economic Journal (2016)
Media: Bloomberg, VoxEU.org, NewStatesman, The Economist, IDG.se (Swedish), DisCo, RES Media Briefing
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Sidekicks:
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eBay's anatomy (with Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarrega and Simon Schropp)
Economics Letters (2013) In the press: OECD Observer, President Obama's Weekly Internet Address (around 0:55) |
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Internet technology and the extensive margin of trade: Evidence from eBay in emerging economies (with Andreas Lendle)
Review of Development Economics (2015) (special issue of the DEGIT 2013 Conference in Lima) |
Illegal trade in natural resources: Evidence from missing exports
International Economics (2014) (special issue of the Economics of Global Interactions conference in Bari)
International Economics (2014) (special issue of the Economics of Global Interactions conference in Bari)
Race-to-the-bottom tariff cutting
Review of International Economics (2014)
in the blogosphere: Trade Diversion
Review of International Economics (2014)
in the blogosphere: Trade Diversion
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
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.
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
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)
