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"Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change" (with Matthew Easton and Stephan Thies), 

  Working paper, 2025.

"Labor Market Polarization and the Great Urban Divergence" (with Eric Mengus, Tomasz Michalski)

  NBER Working Paper 26955, revised August 2023. VOX Summary.

"How Segregated is Urban Consumption?" (with Jonathan I. Dingel, Joan Monras, and Eduardo Morales) Slides

Journal of Political Economy, August 2019. VOX Summary. Video Version.

"A Spatial Knowledge Economy" (with Jonathan I. Dingel) Slides

 American Economic Review, January 2019.

"The Comparative Advantage of Cities" (with Jonathan I. Dingel)  Slides

Journal of International Economics, 2020.

"Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies" (with Jonathan I. Dingel and Antonio Miscio) Slides

Journal of Urban Economics, 2021. VOX Summary.

"Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence" (with Mary Amiti) Slides Web Appendix

 Review of Economic Studies, January 2012.

"Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization" (with James Harrigan) Slides

Journal of International Economics, May 2011. 

Book Review: Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations by P-P Combes, T. Mayer, and J. Thisse

Journal of International Economics, 82, 2010.

"A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure" (with David E. Weinstein) Slides

Journal of Regional Science, 2008.

"Stolper-Samuelson is Dead: And Other Crimes of Both Theory and Data" (with Prachi Mishra)

Globalization and Poverty, Ann Harrison, ed., Chicago: U. of Chicago Pr., 2007.

"Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study of Japanese Regions" (with David E. Weinstein)

Spatial Inequality and Development, Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables, eds., Oxford: Oxford U. Pr., 2005.

"Market Access, Economic Geography, and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment" (with David E. Weinstein)

Journal of International Economics, 59:1, January 2003 (Lead Article).  

"Why Countries Trade: Insights from Firm-Level Data" (with David Weinstein),

The Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2003.

"Human Capital, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy" (with Trevor A. Reeve)

Trade, Investment, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment, D. Greenaway, R. Upward, and K. Wakelin, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 

"Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity"  (with David E. Weinstein) Slides

American Economic Review, 92:5, December 2002 (Lead Article).

"Technological Superiority and the Losses From Migration"  (with David E. Weinstein)

NBER Working Paper 8971, June 2002.

"The Factor Content of Trade" (with David E. Weinstein)

Handbook of  International Trade, E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan, eds., New York: Blackwell, 2002.

"The Mystery of the Excess Trade (Balances)"  (with David E. Weinstein)

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2002.

Book Review: The Spatial Economy, by M. Fujita, P. Krugman, and A. Venables, 

Journal of International Economics, 57(1), 2002.

"What Role for Empirics in International Trade?" (with David Weinstein)

Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration, 1899-1999, Ronald Findlay, Lars Jonung, Mats Lundahl, eds., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

"An Account of Global Factor Trade" (with David E. Weinstein) Slides

American Economic Review, December 2001.

"Do Factor Endowments Matter for North-North Trade?" (with David E. Weinstein)

NBER Working Paper 8516, October 2001, and Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Trade Theory and Policy, Sugata Marjit and Eden Yu, editors, Elsevier, 2008.

"International Trade as an 'Integrated Equilibrium': New Perspectives"  (with David E. Weinstein)

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2000.

"Understanding International Trade Patterns: Advances of the 1990s"

Integration and Trade, Vol. 4, No. 10, 2000.

"Economic Geography and Regional Production Structure: An Empirical Investigation" (with David E. Weinstein).

European Economic Review, February 1999.

"Intra-Industry Trade: Issues and Theory" (with Jagdish Bhagwati)

Trade, Welfare, and Econometrics: Essays in Honor of John S. Chipman, James Melvin, James Moore, and Ray Riezman, eds., New York: Routledge, 1999.

"The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure"

American Economic Review, December 1998.

"Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy"

European Economic Review, November 1998.

"Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade"

American Economic Review, June 1998.

"Tariff Phase-Outs: Theory and Evidence From GATT and NAFTA" (with Carsten Kowalczyk)

Regionalization of the World Economy, Jeffrey Frankel, ed., Chicago: U. Of Chicago Pr. and National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.

"Critical Evidence on Comparative Advantage? North-North Trade in a Multilateral World"

Journal of Political Economy, October 1997.

"Using International and Japanese Regional Data to Determine When the Factor Abundance Theory of Trade Works"  (with David E. Weinstein, Scott Bradford, and Kazushige Shimpo)

American Economic Review, June 1997.

"Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution"

NBER Working Paper 5693, August 1996.

"Does Economic Geography Matter for International Specialization?" (with David E. Weinstein).

NBER Working Paper 5706, June 1996.

"Intra-Industry Trade: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Ricardo Approach"

Journal of International Economics, November 1995 (lead article).