Research

Journal Publications

“Exporting and Pollution Abatement Expenditure: Evidence from Firm-Level Data,” with Soumendra Banerjee and Mahmut Yasar. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105, 102403.

“The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation on International Trade.” Economic Modelling, 2021, 94, 221-234.

On the Environmental Consequences of Intra-Industry Trade.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 83, 50-67.

“Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous,” with Daniel Millimet. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31, 652-677.

“Energy Efficiency and Exporting: Evidence from Firm-Level Data,” with Mahmut Yasar. Energy Economics, 2015, 152, 127-135.

“Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO,” with Daniel Millimet. Economics Letters, 2015, 134, 20-23.

“On the Robustness of the Trade-Inducing Effects of Trade Agreements and Currency Unions,” Empirical Economics, 2014, 47, 253 – 304.

“Is the WTO Mystery Really Solved?” Economics Letters, 2011, 113, 127 – 130.

“Do Customs Union Members Engage In More Bilateral Trade Than Free Trade Agreement Members?” Review of International Economics, 2010, 18, 663 – 681.

Book Chapters & Other Publications

“The Pollution Haven Hypothesis: A Select Review of the Empirical Literature,” in Mariana Spatareanu (ed.) Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise, Volume 3 of Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz (ed.) Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2018.

“International Trade,” with Daniel Millimet, in John Whitehead and Timothy Haab (eds.), Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2014.

“Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Spillovers: Evidence From Plant-Level Data,” with Mahmut Yasar, in Enzo Guillon and Lucas Chauvet (eds.), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Policies, Economic Impacts and Global Perspectives, Nova Science Publishers, 2013.

Research in Progress

“Agricultural Trade and Food Security,” with Manan Roy and Jessica Robinson

“The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics,” with Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus Pörtner, and others