Research

Publications

• Does Import Competition Drive Productivity Growth? Evidence from Hungary's Pre-accession Import Tariffs (2022)- forthcoming in Review of World Economics

• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women-led businesses (joint with J. Torres, I. Gaddis, L. Iacovone, and K. Beegle)- forthcoming in The World Bank Research Observer (2022) [outreach]

• Policies to Support Businesses through the COVID-19 Shock: A Firm-Level Perspective (joint with X. Cirera, M. Cruz, E. Davies, A. Grover; L. Iacovone, J. Cordova; D. Medvedev, G. Nayyar, S. Ortega, J.Torres) published in The World Bank Research Observer 36.1 (2021): 41-66.

• Interest premium and external position: A state-dependent approach (joint with I. Konya) published in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 66 (2020): 101192.

Working Papers

• Unmasking the Impact of COVID-19 on Businesses (2020) (joint with M. Apedo-Amah, A. Besart, X. Cirera, M. Cruz, E. Davies, A. Grover; L. Iacovone, K. Umut, D. Medvedev, S. Poupakis, J. Torres, T. Tran) [Policy Research Working Paper. No. 9434. World Bank] - Submitted

• Prospects and Limitations of the EU's Efforts to Promote Labour Standards through Trade Policy: Evidence from the European Neighbourhood Policy 2021 [joint with T. Pal and L. Bruszt] - Revise and Resubmit Journal of European Integration

• The role of domestic factors in the EU’s governance of labour standards through trade (with L. Bruszt, and T. Pal) [Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSC 52 (2021)] - Submitted

• Exports and Intellectual Property Rights Policies: Does Time-to-Imitation Matter? (2020)

• Increasing Marginal Cost and Welfare Implications (2019)- Submitted

Work in Progress

• A Model of GDP and GNI Trade-Off in an Economy with Financial Frictions

• Domestic Embeddedness and Industry-level Wage differences [joint with L. Bruszt & B. Vedres]