Research

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Revolving Door Lobbyists (joint with Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Mirko Draca)

American Economic Review (Dec. 2012),  102(7): 3731-3748


Relative Factor Endowments and International Portfolio Choice (joint with Alejandro Cuñat)

Journal of the European Economic Association (Feb. 2013),  11(1): 166-200


Offshoring Skill-upgrading in French Manufacturing: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz View (joint with Juan Carluccio, Alejandro Cuñat, and Harald Fadinger)

Journal of International Economics (May 2019), vol. 118, pp. 138-159


Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? (joint with Pierre Azoulay and Joshua Graff-Zivin)

American Economic Review (Aug. 2019), 109(8): 2889-2920


How do Travel Costs Shape Collaboration? (joint with Christian Catalini and Patrick Gaule)

Management Science (Aug 2020), 66(8): 3340-3360


Political Connections: Evidence from Insider Trading Around TARP (joint with Ozlem Akin, Nicolas Coleman, and Jose-Luis Peydró)

Financial Management (Autumn 2021), 50(3): 619-644

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/fima.12292


Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment (joint with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E.Sorensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, and Vadym Volosovych)

Journal of International Economics (July 2021), 131, 103456


Know When To Fold 'em: The Grit Factor (joint with Larbi Alaoui)

European Economic Review (July 2021), 136, 103736


Drought-Relief and Partisanship (with Federico Boffa, Amedeo Piolatto, and Francisco Cavalcanti)

Oxford Bulletin  of Economics and Statistics (2023). Accepted.


WORKING PAPERS

Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects

(joint with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E.Sorensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, and Vadym Volosovych). NBER WP 23643


Shadow Lobbyists

(with Rocco d'Este and Mirko Draca). INET WP 139


The Effects of Startup Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth

(with Pau Roldan-Blanco and Tom Schmitz). CEPR DP 17752

WORK IN PROGRESS


"Knowledge Flows Through FDI: the Case of Privatisations in Central and Eastern Europe"

“Radical Innovation in the Entrepreneurial Firm: Sorting of Ideas and Inventors” (with Michael Ewens)

"The Impact of Large Firm Location on Local Innovation” (with Vince Scrutinio and Katalin Szemeredi)

“Why Has Science Become an Old Man’s Game?” (with Taras Hrendash and Patrick Gaule)

“The Transmission of Sectoral Shocks Across the Innovation Network” (with Zhaoxin Pu)

“The Impact of Financial Frictions in Bank-Firm Relationships on Innovation” (with Mikel Bedayo, Jose-Luis Peydro, Gabriel Jimenez)

“Assortative Skill Matching in Academia: the Case of Arpanet” (with Myra Mohnen and Laurent Berge)

“The Effect of Ozone Pollution on Health and Crime” (with Albert Soret and Ana Tur-Prats)