My work is mostly on International Trade, although I also do research on Urban Economics and Labor Economics
Working Papers:
Wholesalers in International Production Networks (with Sebastian Claro, Kunal Dasgupta, Ignatius Horstmann, and Marcos Rangel). Revise and Re-submit at Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics, November 2024.
Published Work:
International Trade
The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity When Firms Sort into Markets: Teh Case of Exporters (with Sebastian Claro, Ignatius Horstmann, and David Rivers). The Journal of Political Economy, 132(4), April 2024.
The DNA of New Exporters: Spin-Offs and FDI at the Extensive Margin of Trade (with Sebastian Claro, Ignatius Horstmann, and Trevor Tombe). The American Economic Review: Insights, 2(3), September 2020. Online appendix.
Inventory Management, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences (with Sebastian Claro, Kunal Dasgupta, and Ignatius Horstmann), The American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 11(1), January 2019.
Trade Costs and the Role of International Trade Intermediaries (with Sebastian Claro and Ignatius Horstmann), in: Bruce Blonigen and Wesley Wilson, eds., Handbook of International Trade and Transportation (Edwin Elgar Press), 2018.
A Balls and Bins Model of Trade: Comment (with Sebastian Claro and Ignatius Horstmann), American Economic Review, 106(3), March 2016.
Occasional and Perennial Exporters (with Sebastian Claro and Ignatius Horstmann), Journal of International Economics, 90(1), May 2013. Online Appendix.
Facts and Figures in Intermediated Trade (with Sebastian Claro and Ignatius Horstmann), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 100(2), May 2010.
Endowments, Output, and the Bias of Directed Innovation, Review of Economic Studies, 77(2), April 2010.
Trade, technology, and the Rise of the Service Sector: The Effects on US Wage Inequality, Journal of International Economics, 74(2), March 2008. Online Appendix.
Does the Internet Defy the Law of Gravity? (with Avi Goldfarb), Journal of International Economics, 70(2), December 2006. Online Appendix
Can FTAA Suspend the Law of Gravity and Give the Americas Higher Growth and better Income Distribution? (with Ed Leamer), Toni Estevadeordal, Dani Rodrick, Alan Taylor, Andres Velasco, eds., FTAA and Beyond: Prospects for Integration in the Americas, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Urban Economics
Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the Spatial Division of Cognition (with Marigee Bacolod, Marcos Rangel, and William Strange), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 98, January 2023.
Elements of Skill--Traits, Intelligences, Education, and Agglomeration (with Marigee Bacolod and William Strange), Journal of Regional Science, 50(1), February 2010.
Skills in the City (with Marigee Bacolod and William Strange), Journal of Urban Economics, 65(2), March 2009.
Urban Interaction--Soft Skills vs. Specialization (with Marigee Bacolod and William Strange), Journal of Economic Geography, 9(2), March 2009.
Labor Economics
Two Sides of the Same Coin--U.S. Residual Inequality and the Gender Gap (with Marigee Bacolod), Journal of Human Resources, 45(1), Winter 2010. Online Appendix Tables.