Publications
Main Publications and Accepted Papers
• "Product Differentiation, Interdependence, and the Formation of PTAs" (with Kiran Ayub), Review of World Economics, forthcoming.
• "The Multilateral Policy of the Arab League Countries: An Empirical Investigation" (with Atika Benaddi), The World Economy, vol. 45 (2022), pp. 3420-3450.
• "The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Arrangements: An Empirical Investigation" (with Giovanni Facchini and Gerald Willmann), Economic Journal, vol. 131 (2021), pp. 3207-3240 . Media: VOXEU column
• "Trade Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from the Arab League Countries" (with Atika Benaddi), Review of International Economics, vol. 29 (2021), pp. 1327-1357.
• "The Importance of Heterogeneity in Determining the Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements on FDI" (with Leilei Shen and Norikatsu Hiraide), The World Economy, vol. 43 (2020), pp. 3262-3295.
• “Value-Added Exports and U.S. Local Labor Markets: Does China Really Matter?” (with Leilei Shen), European Economic Review, vol. 101 (2018), pp. 479-504.
• “Cooperation in WTO’s Tariff Waters? ” (with Marcelo Olarreaga and Alessandro Nicita), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 126 (2018), pp. 1302-1338.
Media: VOXEU column, Washington Post, UNCTAD, LSE column.
• “Potential Pareto-improving Move towards Most-Favored Nation Tariffs” (with Sajal Lahiri), Economic Inquiry, vol. 54 (2016), pp. 1086-1104.
• “The Customs Union Issue: Why do we Observe so few of them?” (with Giovanni Facchini and Gerald Willmann), Journal of International Economics, vol. 90 (2013), pp. 136-147.
• “Rules of Origin and Gains from Trade” (with Earl L. Grinols), Economic Theory, vol. 47 (2011), pp. 159-173.
• “The Role of Importers and Exporters in the Determination of the U.S. Tariff Preferences Granted to Latin America”, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 94 (2011), pp. 207-219.
• “Substitution and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India” (with Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, and Gerald Willmann), World Bank Economic Review, vol. 24 (2010), pp. 446-473.
• “Industrial Targeting in Free Trade Areas with Policy Independence” (with Earl L. Grinols), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 41 (2008), pp. 796-816.
• “An Enhancement of Modern Free Trade Area Theory” (with Earl L. Grinols), Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 59 (2007), pp. 219-225.
• “Market Access for Sale” (with Hiau Looi Kee and Marcelo Olarreaga), Journal of Development Economics, vol. 81 (2007), pp. 79-94.
Other Publications and Book Review:
• "Swiss Market Access in a Global Trade War" (with Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga and Jean-Marc Solleder), Aussenwirtschaft, vol. 70-1 (2020).
• “Brazil,the BRICs and the changing landscape of global economic governance”, to appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy, edited by Edmund Amann, Carlos Azzoni and Werner Baer.
• “Mercosul: Its successes and failures during its first two decades” (with Werner Baer), Latin American Business Review, vol. 15 (2014), pp. 193-208.
• Review of “Rules of Origin in International Trade” by Stefano Inama, Global Journal of Economics, vol. 1 (2012).
• “Economic Integration without Policy Coordination: The Case of MERCOSUR” (with Werner Baer and Tiago Cavalcanti), Emerging Markets Review, vol. 3 (2002), pp. 269-291.