WORK IN PROGRESS

• ​​​​​Enemies of the people (with Gerhard Toews) 
  • ​Media:  la diaria, Novaya Gazeta, atlantico, tvrain.ru, The Economist
  • Radio/Podcasts: ABC (Australia), A Correction (A Podcast), RTBF (Belgium), The Intelligence (Podcast from The Economist)
  • Summaries: Twitter thread (2), FREE NETWORK Policy Brief, VoxEU
  • Old versions: QPE Working Paper 2020-20, NES Working Paper 279, Old version (Sep 2018)
  • Videos: Economics of Migration online seminar, AEA 2021, Memorial (in Russian)
  • BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant recipient
• ​Refugees, trade, and investment (with Dany Bahar and Christopher Parsons) 
  • ​In preparation for the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (OxRep)
  • ​Brookings blog
    
• FDI and wage inequality (with Marcio Cruz, Gaurav Nayyar, and Gerhard Toews)
  • ​​In preparation for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Springer)
• Trump’s trade war with China and structural change in Vietnam (with Lorenzo Rotunno, Sanchary Roy, and Anri Sakakibara)
  • ​BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant recipient

PUBLICATIONS

• Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from US Resettlements ​(with Anna Maria Mayda, Christopher Parsons, and Han Pham), forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics
  • WP version: ​CEPR Discussion Paper 14242, IZA DP 12860
  • Twitter thread, VoxEU column, summary at fDiIntelligence (FT)
  • Video of my virtual talk at the World Bank
• Resource discoveries, FDI bonanzas, and local multipliers: Evidence from Mozambique (with Gerhard Toews), Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics 
  • Previous versions: IGC Working Paper, OxCarre Research Paper 199,  last version pdf
  • ​​Media: IGC project, RES Media Briefing, World Bank Report (Box 1),  voaportugues.com, IGC blog, The Conversation (picked up by the Mail and Guardian and CNBC Africa), globaldev​​, Oxford CSAE blog, Forbes
• The oil nouveau riche and arms imports,  ​Journal of African Economies, (2021)
  • WP version: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ​​WPS 9374
  • Media: Twitter thread, ​King's summary, Blog at substack
• ​The imperial roots of global trade (with Gunes Gokmen and Wessel Vermeulen),  Journal of Economic Growth (2020)
  • Media: Royal Economic Society media briefing, The Long Run (Economic History Society blog)​, Ekonomisk Debatt (in Swedish), VoxEU
  • Data on empires
• ​​Dutch Disease Resistance: Evidence from Indonesian Firms (with Jim Cust and Torfinn Harding), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists ​(2019)
  • Media: Inside Indonesia
• Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment (with Chris Parsons), Economic Journal (2018)
  • Among most highly cited articles published in 2018 and 2019 issues of the journal
  • IZA Working paper version
  • Media: VoxEU, WSJ, OPEN/Tent Report on refugees, my talk at NES in Moscow, BROOKINGS blog, Quartz, RES, ITC Trade Forum Magazine
• There goes gravity: eBay and the death of distance (with Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Simon Schropp), Economic Journal (2016)
  • Sidekick: ​eBay's anatomy,  Economics Letters (2013)
  • ​​​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)​, RSAI Newsletter
• Ethnic Minorities and Trade: The Soviet Union as a Natural Experiment (with Gunes Gokmen and Elena Nickishina), The World Economy (2018) ​
  • Media: FREE Policy Brief
• Israel's open-secret trade (with Lorenzo Rotunno), ​Review of World Economics (2017)
  • ​Media: AMSE DialogEco
• Production fragmentation, upstreamness and value added (with Tadashi Ito) , 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
• ​Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual value-added flows (with Tadashi Ito and Lorenzo Rotunno) , Review of International Economics (2016)
• ​​Internet technology and the extensive margin of trade: Evidence from eBay in emerging economies (with Andreas Lendle),  Review of Development Economics (2015) 
• Illegal trade in natural resources: Evidence from missing exports, International Economics (2015)
• ​Quota-hopping in-bond diversion (with Lorenzo Rotunno), Economic Inquiry (2014)
• Race-to-the-bottom tariff cutting, Review of International Economics (2014)
  • Media: Trade Diversion ​​
• The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports (with Lorenzo Rotunno and Zheng Wang), Journal of Development Economics (2013)
  • ​Media: Financial Times (1, 2), Daily Maverick, Trade Diversion, CSAE blog, VoxEU.org, African Business
• ​​Chinese networks and tariff evasion (with Lorenzo Rotunno), Extras available. The World Economy (2012)
  • Media: VoxEU.org. 
• ​How migrant networks facilitate trade: Evidence from Swiss exports, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (2012)
  • Media: "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​