Research

Working Papers

Geographical Protections and Trade: Product-level Evidence from EU Agreements, 2023. Revision requested.

Publications

Non-tariff Measures vs. Tariffs: A Fresh Look at the Evidence, 2024, Economics Letters, 237 (April), 111669. [WP Version]

Non-tariff Measures: What’s Tariffs Got to Do with It? 2023, Canadian Journal of Economics, 56(1), 133-163. [WP Version]

Preferential Trade Agreements and MFN Tariffs: Global Evidence (joint with Rishi R. Sharma), 2021, European Economic Review, 138 (September), 103850. [WP Version]

WTO Tariff Commitments and Temporary Protection: Complements or Substitutes?, 2020, European Economic Review, 121 (January), 103344. [WP Version]

Do Trade Flows Respond to Nudges? Evidence from the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism, 2019, Review of International Economics, 27(3), 735-764. [WP Version]

Forecasts in Times of Crises (joint with Theo S. Eicher, Chris Papageorgiou and Charis Christofides), 2019, International Journal of Forecasting, 35(3), 1143-1159. [IMF WP Version]

European Influence and Economic Development (joint with Theo S. Eicher), 2019, Canadian Journal of Economics, 52(2), 667-734. [WP Version]

Constitutional Rules as Determinants of Social Infrastructure (joint with Theo S. Eicher and Cecilia García-Peñalosa), 2018, Journal of Macroeconomics, 57 (September), 182-209. [WP Version]

WTO Dispute Determinants, 2017, European Economic Review, 91 (January), 157-179. [WP Version]

The Elusive Effects of Trade on Growth: Export Diversity and Economic Take-off (joint with Theo S. Eicher), 2016, Canadian Journal of Economics, 49(1), 264-295. [WP Version]

Works in Progress

Non-tariff Measures and Preferential Trade Agreements: What Is the Link? (with Rishi Sharma).

Tariff Exclusions and Firm Performance (joint with Federico Esposito).

Policy Papers and Other Publications

Sustaining Long-Run Growth and Macroeconomic Stability in Low-Income Countries – The Role of Structural Transformation and Diversification (joint with T.S. Choi, N.D. Duma, T. Eicher, C. Henn, N. Gigineishvili, G. Ho, C. Papageorgiou, A. Pitt,  S. Rosa, K. Wang), IMF Policy Paper, March 2014.