Publications

Journal Articles

• “Quantifying Economic Impacts of Trade Agreements with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities,” Review of International Economics 12723: 1-30, Dec (2023, joint with Alessandro Nicita.  Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS10634, Dec 2023.

•  “Trade Fraud and Non-Tariff Measures,” Journal of International Economics 139: 103682, Nov 2022, joint with Alessandro Nicita. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS10112, June 2022. Dataset/Programs

• “Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Evidence,” World Bank Economic Review 36(2): 329–360, May 2022, with Ana Fernandes and Deborah Winkler. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS9197, March 2020, and CESifo Working Paper No. 8270, May 2020.

• “Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence on Bangladesh,” Transnational Corporations, Special issue on Multinational Enterprises and Gender Equality 27(3): 115-132, 2020, with Ana Fernandes. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, WPS9340, July 2020, and CESifo WP no. 8538, September 2020.

• "Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China," the American Economic Review 2016, 106(6): 1402-36, joint with Heiwai Tang.

• "Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments," the Journal of International Economics, 2015, Vol. 96, No. 1: 18--36, , with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna. Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 16557, and World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, WPS7156.

• "Local Intermediate Inputs, and the Shared Supplier Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment," the Journal of Development Economics, 2015, Vol. 112, 56-71. Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, WPS7050.

• "Is Protectionism on the Rise? Assessing national trade policies during the crisis of 2008 ," Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, Vol. 95, No. 1: 342--346, with C. Neagu and A. Nicita. Dataset

  • Coverage by Reuters on July 19, 2010: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66I45Z20100719

  • Albies Award for the best writing in global political economy for 2013:

    • http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/31/presenting_the_albies_of_2013#sthash.d2yazH1l.8WNjNr9c.dpuf

• " Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence From Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters ," the Journal of International Economics, 2012, volume 87, issue 2, pp. 247 - 261, with Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna.

• " The Effects of Domestic Climate Change Measures on International Competitiveness ," World Economy, 2010, vol. 33, no. 6, p. 820-829, with H. Ma and M. Mani.

• " The Coefficient of the Whole is an Average of the Coefficients of Its Parts: A Special Case of Restricted Least Squares ," Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 104, no. 3, p. 136-139.            

• "Findlay-Grubert versus Rybczynski: Testing Growth Hypotheses in Classic Trade Theories Using Singapore ", Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2009, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 443-486. Previously published as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2702 .

• "Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices," Economic Journal, 2009, vol. 119, p. 172--199, with A. Nicita and M. Olarreaga. Dataset

• "Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions," Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, vol. 90, no. 4, p. 666-682, with A. Nicita and M. Olarreaga, Dataset

• " Firm level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence From Bangladesh ", American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2008, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 457-462, with K. Krishna.

• " Export Variety and Country Productivity: Estimating the Monopolistic Competition Model with Endogenous Productivity ", Journal of International Economics, 2008, vol. 74, no. 2, p. 500-518, with R. Feenstra.

• "Imports, Entry and Competition Law as Market Disciplines" , European Economic Review, 2007, vol. 51, no. 4, p. 831-858, with B. Hoekman.

• "Trade Liberalization and Export Variety: A Comparison of China and Mexico" , World Economy, 2007, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 5-21, with R. Feenstra.

• "Market Access for Sale " , Journal of Development Economics, 2007, vol. 82, p. 79-94, with M. Olarreaga and P. Silva.

• "Trade, Capital Accumulation and Structural Unemployment: An Empirical Study of the Singapore Economy" , Journal of Development Economics, 2005, vol. 77, no. 1, p. 125-152, with H. T. Hoon. Also published by Elsevier.             

• "Productivity or Endowments? Sectoral Evidence for Hong Kong " , Asian Economic Journal, 2005, vol. 19: 51-81. Also available online at Blackwell Synergy (www.blackwell-synergy.com).

• "Estimating Productivity When Primal and Dual TFP Accounting Fail: An Illustration Using Singapore ", Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, vol. 4, no. 1, article 26.

• "Markups, Entry Regulation and Trade: Country Size Matters" , Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2004, vol. 4, no. 1, article 8, with B. Hoekman and M. Olarreaga.           

• "On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade", American Economic Review, 2004, vol. 94, no. 2, p. 145-149, with R. Feenstra.

Chapters in Books and Other Writings

• "Foreign Direct Investments Could Bring Positive Spillovers," Let's Talk Development, http://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/foreign-direct-investments-could-bring-positive-spillovers, Dec 16, 2014

• "The shared supplier effect: How foreign firms benefit domestic firms," http://www.voxeu.org/article/shared-supplier-effect-how-foreign-firms-benefit-domestic-firms, Nov 21, 2014.

• "Trade As Aid," , Ideas for India, International Growth Center, http://ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article_id=297, May 2013, with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna.

• "Trade Preferences as Catalytic Aid," http://www.voxeu.org, February 19, 2011, with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna.

• "Developing Countries, New Trade Barriers, and the Global Economic Crisis," with C. Bown, in Managing Openness: Trade and Outward-Oriented Growth Strategies after the Crisis, M. Haddad and B. Shepherd (eds.). 2011.

• "Is Protectionism on the Rise During the Crisis?" http://www.voxeu.org, June 1, 2010, with Cristina Neagu and Alessandro Nicita.       

• "Climate Change Policies and International Trade: Challenges and Opportunities," in International Trade and Climate Change: Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives, The World Bank. 2008.

• "Estimating the Effects of Global Trade Reform," with A. Nicita and M. Olarreaga, in Global Trade and Poor Nations, Hoekman and Olarreaga (eds), Brookings Institute Press. 2008.

• "Estimating Trade Restrictiveness," http://www.voxeu.org. July 18, 2007, with Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga.

• Book review of J. Anderson and P. Neary, Measuring the Restrictiveness of International Trade Policy , in Journal of International Economics, vol. 73, no. 2, p. 434-438. 2007.

• "Firm Performance in the Services Sector," in Malaysia: Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate, and Growth, Report no. 26841-MA, the World Bank. 2005.

• "Factors Shaping Singapore's Wages and Unemployment and the Role of the National Wages Council", with H.T. Hoon, in Wages and Wages Policies: Tripartism in Singapore, C.Y. Lim and R. Chew (eds.), p. 147-165. 1998.

Operational Reports

• "Sri Lanka’s Export," April 2015.

• "Measuring Value Added in the Salt Production Chain," August 2014.       

• "Firm Performance in the Services Sector, in Malaysia: Firm Competitiveness, Investment Climate, and Growth, 2005", Report no. 26841-MA, the World Bank.