I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Florida.Â
My research interests are international trade, industrial organization, and computational economics.
Endogenous Vertical Differentiation, Variety, and the Unequal Gains from Trade (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023)
Working Paper Version with Appendix
Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes (with Elias Dinopoulos and Bulent Unel) (Journal of Monetary Economics, 2024)
Effort, Talent, and Inequality in a Small Open Economy (with Elias Dinopoulos and Theofanis Tsoulouhas) (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024)
The Role of Vertical Market Structure on Subsidy Incidence: The Case of Agricultural Markets (with Ignacia Mercadal) (Economics Letters, 2025)
Working Paper Version with Appendix
Markups, Production Relocation, and the Gains from Trade (with Hamid Firooz) (Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming)
Markup Heterogeneity, Openness, and the Pro-Competitive Gains from Trade Across Countries (with Hamid Firooz and Sankalp Mathur) (Revisions requested at Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics)
Trade Shocks and Attentive Voting: Evidence from Local Labor Markets in the U.S. (Revisions requested at Journal of Labor Research)
Interdependence, Sectoral Linkages and the Cost and Benefits of Negotiating Free-Trade Agreements (with Hamid Firooz and Shubhi Agarwal)
When will countries cooperate and when not? Quantifying the importance of similarities in demand, markups, and geogarphy in trade negotiations (with Milton Bronstein, Hamid Firooz, and Yonggeun Jung)
Pricing in the Presence of an Inferior Good and Income Inequality: Evidence from Intercity Bus Travel in Germany (with Matthew Michalak and Xi Zhang)
The Economics of Industrial Decarbonization: How Do Firms Respond to Changing Energy Prices? (with Ignacia Mercadal and Eugenio Rojas)
Learning, entry, and exit in new markets: Evidence from Long- Distance Bus Travel in Germany (with Ignacia Mercadal)
An Rcpp Code for the Estimation of Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Models of Consumer Demand
Contact:
University of Florida, CLAS
Department of Economics
PO Box 117140, 320 MAT
Gainesville, FL 32611
gheins@ufl.edu
(+1) 352-392-0113