Other Writings 

(including op-eds)

o  "A Perspective on the Great Reallocation of Global Supply Chains". With Laura Alfaro.

      Vox EU, 28 September 2023


o  "The Impact of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy: New Evidence from Night-time Lights". With Bingjing Li.

      Vox EU, 25 November 2021, and Vox China, 8 December 2021.


o  "Growing like China: Firm Performance and GVC Position". With Kalina Manova and Zhihong Yu.

      VoxChina, 14 April 2021.


o  "International Trade Has Suffered a One-Two Punch. Can it Recover After Covid-19?".

      Commentary written for ABFER, April 2020. 

      Chapter in Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, World Scientific Publishing Pte Ltd, January 2021.


o  "Trump's Trade War Cost Republicans Congressional Seats in the 2018 Midterm Elections".

      Vox EU, 26 November 2019.


o  "The End of Global Supply Chains as We Know Them?".

      East Asia Forum, 14 October 2019.


o  "Five Things I Know About International Trade".

      Tuck Knowledge in Practice, 30 July 2019.


o  "The Real "China Shock": Political Fallout from Slowing Exports in China". With Filipe R. Campante.

      ProMarket, 11 June 2019.


o  "Host-country financial development and multinational activity". With L. Kamran Bilir and Kalina Manova.

      Vox EU, 6 May 2019.


o  "Globalization in Retreat? The Recent Slowdown in International Trade Flows".

      Harvard Economics Review, Fall 2016 issue, pp.6-8.


o  "The Evolving Pattern of Production and Trade Networks in Asia". In collaboration with the Economic Policy Group at MAS.

      Macroeconomic Review, Monetary Authority of Singapore, October 2016, Volume XV, Issue 2, pp.80-90. Special Feature A.


o  "Make or buy decisions over upstream and downstream inputs: An investigation of firm boundaries along value chains".

      With Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, and Paola Conconi.

      Vox EU, 14 Nov 2015.


o  "Reflections on LKY from a Singaporean economist".

      24 Mar 2015.


o  "Same Product, Different City, Different Price". With Gilbert Neo.

      The Straits Times, 3 Jul 2014, p.A26. Ask: NUS Economists column.


o  "Where are Countries Positioned along Global Production Lines?".

      Macroeconomic Review, Monetary Authority of Singapore, April 2014, Volume XIII, Issue 1, pp.94-99. Special Feature C.


o  "What's Keeping Blue-Collar Wages Low?".

      The Straits Times, 2 Jan 2014, p.A26. Ask: NUS Economists column.


o  "The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring". With Filipe R. Campante.

      The World Financial Review, Sep/Oct 2012, pp.70-72.


o  ""The People Want the Fall of the Regime": Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy". With Filipe R. Campante.

      Vox EU, 25 Apr 2011.


o  "Teaching Rebels". With Filipe R. Campante.

      International Herald Tribune, 23 Feb 2011, contributed op-ed.


o  "Reflections on Budget 2011".

      REACH weblog, 21 Feb 2011, guest blog.


o  "Off the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis". With Kalina Manova.

      Vox EU, 15 Feb 2010.


o  "700-billion-dollar question: Why Did They Change Their Minds?". With Filipe R. Campante.

      Guest blog, 5 Oct 2008, Dani Rodrik's weblog. [Technical Appendix