Research & Outreach

Research

Ongoing:

• • The impact of export promotion policies on export performance: the case of Pakistan (2022) with S. Lovo (Best Paper award in 2nd International Conference CBER at IBA, Karachi , March 2022).

  • Defever, F. & Riaño, A. & Varela, G., 2020. "Evaluating the Impact of Export Finance Support On Firm-level Export Performance: Evidence from Pakistan," Working Papers 20/14, Department of Economics, City University London. 

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

• • Internationally linked firms and productivity in Pakistan:  a look at the top end of the distribution (2022) with S. Lovo, WB Policy Research Working Paper WPS9349. Journal of Development Studies, vol. 58, issue 10.  [pdf] [video] [thread][blog]

  • Why do exports react less to real exchange rate depreciations than to appreciations? Evidence from Pakistan  (2022) with M. Brun and J. P. Gambetta. Journal of Asian Economics, vol. 81, August 2022 [pdf] [Newspaper] [thread] [blog]

  • "Economic integration, industrial structure and catch-up growth: Firm-level evidence from Poland" with P. Bastos,  S. Lovo and J. Hagemejer, Review of International Economics, April 2022.

  • "Deep Trade Agreements and Domestic Institutions in the Americas", with Gómez-Mera, L. Latin American Research Review, 56(3), 2021, 607–624. DOI: 

  • "All these Worlds are Yours, Except India: The Effectiveness of Cash Subsidies to Export in Nepal", with F. Defever, J.-D. Reyes and A. Riano,  European Economic Review, 128, 2020, 103494.

    • Media coverage: [Kathmandu Post, February 26, 2017]  [Kathmandu Post, August 29, 2017]

  • "Survival is for the fittest: Export Survival Patterns in Georgia", with Martuscelli, A. Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 42(3), 2018 pages 397-413.

  • "Travel Channel Meets Discovery Channel or How Tourism Can Encourage Better Export Performance and Diversification in Nepal", with Reis, J.G. in South Asia Economic Journal, vol. 16, issue 2, 2015.

    • Blogpost: "Travel Channel Meets Discovery Channel: How Tourism Can Promote Export Performance and Diversification"

    • Note: "Can Tourism Encourage Better Export Diversification and Performance in Nepal?". In this note, we examine the spillovers of tourism inflows into exports of niche or exotic products in Nepal. We unveil an economically and statistically significant effect of tourism inflows in exports of exotic goods in Nepal over the period 1990-2010.(with Jose Guilherme Reis, in Economic Premise, issue 127, October 2013).

  • "Exchange Rate Expectations Unbiasedness and Central Bank Intervention: The Experience of the Southern Cone", in the Journal of Global Economics, vol 2, issue 2, 2014. pp 1-6.

  • "Determinants of Market Integration in Indonesia". with Enrique Aldaz-Carroll and Leonardo Iacovone, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, April 2013.

  • "Mecanismos de Transmision de la Politica Monetaria". with Vera, C. Revista de Economia, 2003, Vol X, No. 1, pp. 87-150.

Books

• • "New Voices in Investment: A Survey of Investors from Emerging Countries", with L. G. Mera, Y. Margalit, T. Kenyon and J.G. Reis Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. 2014

    • Blogpost: "New Voices in Investment: How Emerging Market Multinationals Decide Where, Why and Why Not to Invest"

  • "Trade Potentials of Small Caribbean States with the European Union". In this book, we estimate the trade potentials of Small Caribbean States with the European Union, using a gravity modeling approach. LAP Academic Publishing ISBN 978-3-659-14181-2.

 Outreach

 Recent blogposts or newspaper articles:

• Pakistan’s Policy Options To Make Trade Work For Environmental Sustainability. in PIDE Blogs and World Bank's End Poverty in South Asia 

• Finding Pakistan's missing exports. in Global Village Space, June 2021   

• Trade policy for productivity growth.  in Global Village Space, February 2021.

• Pakistan's anti-export bias: an impediment for long term growth. in The Express Tribune, September 2020.

Recent Video Blogs or Speaking Engagements:

• "A roadmap for sustaining post-crisis growth in Pakistan"  Podcast "Pakistonomy", April 2023.

• Why did Pakistan failed to achieve sustainable economic growth?  Panel participation in 2nd International Conference CBER at IBA, March 2022.

• How can Pakistan increase its exports? Podcast "Thought Behind Things", November 2021.

• Achieving $60 billion exports" Podcast "Pakistonomy", April 2021 with Alen Mulabdic.

• "Increasing Pakistan's exports" Podcast "Pakistonomy", November 2020.