Policy reports
International Monetary Fund (2022-present):
Trading Places: Real Spillovers from G20 Emerging Markets, World Economic Outlook, Chapter 4 (contributor), April 2024
Industrial Policy Coverage in IMF Surveillance— Broad Considerations (team leader), March 2024
Industrial Policy: Trade Policy and World Trade Organization Considerations in IMF Surveillance (joint with Brad McDonald and Elizabeth Van Heuvelen), March 2024
Digital Trade for Development, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, World Bank, WTO, December 2023.
Fiscal Revenue Mobilization and Digitally Traded Products: Taxing at the Border or Behind It? (joint with Tibor Hanappi and Adam Jakubik), September 2023. Coverage: Most Favored Nation, 22 September 2023, Financial Times, February 22 2024
Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund (team lead), April 2023. IMF Board endorsement of the new trade strategy.
Geo-Economic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism (team member), January 2023. Coverage: Martin Wolf's FT column; Adam Tooze's FT column and blog.
World Bank (2015-2022):
Georgia - Country Economic Memorandum : Charting Georgia’s Future (team member), December 2022
Trade Policy Strategy 2.0 for North Macedonia : Trade Competitiveness Diagnostic and State Aid Effectiveness Report (team member), September 2022
The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements on Georgia's Exporters : A Firm-Level Analysis (joint with Matteo Neri-Laine and Gianluca Orefice), September 2021
Trade Facilitation Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact on Peru’s Exporters (joint with Woori Lee and Nadia Rocha), May 2021
The Covid-19 Vaccine Production Club : Will Value Chains Temper Nationalism? (joint with Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Nadia Rocha), March 2021. Coverage: The Economist, March 13, 2021, Financial Times, March 15, 2021.
Covid-19 and Food Protectionism: The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets (joint with Alvaro Espitia and Nadia Rocha), May 2020.
Trade and the covid-19 crisis in developing countries (joint with Alvaro Espitia and Nadia Rocha), April 2020.
When Elephants Make Peace: The Impact of the China-U.S. Trade Agreement on Developing Countries (joint with Caroline Freund, Maryla Maliszewska, Aaditya Mattoo), March 2020.
East Asia and the Pacific in the Time of COVID-19 – Regional Economic Update, April 2020
Global Trade Watch 2018: Trade amid tensions (joint with Cristina Constantinescu and Aaditya Mattoo), May 2019
How Old is the Belt and Road Initiative? Long Term Patterns of Chinese Exports to BRI Economies (joint with Cristina Constantinescu), December 2018, MTI Practice Note; 6, World Bank Group. Coverage: The Diplomat, February 11, 2019.
Impacts on Global Trade and Income of Current Trade Disputes (joint with Caroline Freund, Michael Ferrantino and Maryla Maliszewska), July 2018
Trade in Developing East Asia: How it has Changed and Why it Matters, (joint with Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo), background paper for East Asia Chief Economist, April 2018. A shorter version was published in East Asian Economic Review Vol. 22, No. 4, December 2018.
Global Trae Watch: Trade Developments in 2017 (joint with Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, and Alen Mulabdic), May 2018
Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All -The Case for Trade and for Policies to Facilitate Adjustment (team leader), joint IMF, WB, WTO report for the G20, April 2017
Global Trade Watch: Trade Developments in 2016 (joint with Cristina Constantinescu and Aaditya Mattoo), February 2017. Coverage: Financial Times, 22 February 2017.
The Trade Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative (joint with Suprabha Baniya, Siobhan Murray, and Nadia Rocha), in the East Asia Economic Update, October 2016
Global Trade Watch: Trade developments in 2015 (joint with Cristina Constantinescu and Aaditya Mattoo), March 2016
Low-income developing countries and G-20 trade and investment policy (team leader), October 2015
Prospects for Global Trade (contributor), note prepared by the IMF and the World Bank for the G20 Sherpa Meeting, March 2015
What lies behind the global trade slowdown? (joint with Cristina Constantinescu, Allen Dennis and Aaditya Mattoo), Global Economic Prospects, Chapter 4, January 2015
International Monetary Fund (2013-2015):
Understanding the role of cyclical and structural factors in the global trade slowdown (contributor), World Economic Outlook (WEO), Chapter 1, April 2015
Review of the role of trade in the work of the Fund (team leader), February 2015
Spillover from a potential reversal of fortunes in emerging market economies (contributor), Spillover Report 2014, Chapter 3, July 2014
2014 Pilot External Sector Report (contributor), IMF Multilateral Issues Report, July 2014
Trade interconnectedness: The world with global value chains (joint with Mika Saito and Jarkko Turunen), August 2013
2013 Pilot External Sector Report (contributor), IMF Multilateral Issues Report, August 2013
Nigeria: 2013 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report (joint with IMF Staff Team for Nigeria), April 2014
World Trade Organization (2007-2013):
World Trade Report 2013, Factors shaping world trade, WTO, July 2013
World Trade Report 2012, Trade and public policies, WTO, July 2012
World Trade Report 2011, The WTO and preferential trade agreements, WTO, July 2011
World Trade Report 2010, Trade in Natural Resources, WTO, July 2010
Report to the WTO Ministerial Conference on Shaping Factors for Trade, WTO, November 2009
World Trade Report 2009, Trade Policy Commitments and Contingent Protection, WTO, July 2009
World Trade Report 2008, Trade in a Globalizing World, WTO, July 2008