Working Papers

o  "Global Supply Chains: The Looming "Great Reallocation"". August 2023.

     With Laura Alfaro. Paper prepared for the Jackson Hole Symposium. NBER Working Paper No. 31661.


o  "Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?" April 2024 version.

     With Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen. NBER Working Paper No. 31240.


o  "Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare". With Lin Ma. Draft in progress.


o  "Cumulative Innovation, Growth, and the Protection of Ideas". June 2023 version. Revise and resubmit.

      With Edwin L.-C. Lai

 

o  "Does Bank FDI Promote Firm FDI? Evidence from China's Outbound Multinational Activity". Draft in progress.

      With Tomoo Kikuchi and Jie Li. [Slides]


o  ""Just Do Your Job": Obedience, Routine Tasks, and the Pattern of Specialization". 

      With Filipe R. Campante. September 2017 version. [Slides]


o  "Obedience, Schooling, and Political Participation". 

      With Filipe R. Campante. March 2010 version.



Other Papers:


o  "The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices around the World". 

     With Richard B. Freeman. September 2005. NBER Working Paper No. 11598. [Data]


Older Stuff:


o  "Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World". With Edwin L.-C. Lai.


o  "Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World, 1968-1998". Unpublished mimeo, not to be cited (dataset under revision).