Research Statement (June 2023)

Working Papers

Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality   [Supplementary Material], February  2024
with Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea
Revised and Resubmitted to Econometrica
This is a significantly revised version of "Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations"
VoxDev Column, National Science Foundation Award #1629124

Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks  [Video], June 2023
with Kirill Borusyak and Brian Kovak

Publications

Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

with Brian Kovak

Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (2023)  [LACIR]

Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment  [Video]  [Online Appendix]  [Data Appendix]  [Replication Files]
with Joao Paulo Pessoa, Ricardo Reyes-Heroles and Sharon Traiberman
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 138 No. 2 (2023)

Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Inequality  [Online Appendix]  [Replication Files]
with Sharon Traiberman
Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 133 January (2023)

Trade and Labor Market Adjustment: Recent Research on Brazil
Meeting Globalization's Challenges, Edited by Luis Catao and Maurice Obstfeld, Princeton University Press (2019)

Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade  [Online Appendix]
with Brian Kovak
Journal of International Economics, Vol. 117 March (2019)
VoxDev Column,  Trade Talks

Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence From The Brazilian Trade Liberalization  [Online Appendix]
with Rodrigo Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 10 No. 4 (2018)
AEA Chart of the Week, VoxDev Column,  Trade Talks

Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics  [Online Appendix]
with Brian Kovak
American Economic Review, Vol. 107, No. 10 (2017)
VoxDev Column, World Bank, Upjohn Institute, Trade Talks

Trade Liberalization and The Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach  [Online Appendix]
with Brian Kovak
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 105, No. 5 (2015)

Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics  [Online Appendix]  [Codes]
Econometrica, Vol. 82, No. 3 (2014) -- Lead Article
WTO Award, Microeconomic Insights Column

Multi-Product Firms and Exchange Rate Fluctuations
with Arpita Chatterjee and Jade Vichyanond
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2013)

Skills, Exports and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
with Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto
World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2012)

Nash Equilibrium in Strategic Bidding: a Binary Expansion Approach
with Luiz Augusto Barroso, Marcia Fampa, Sergio Granville and Mario Veiga Pereira
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2006)

Strategic Bidding Under Uncertainty: a Binary Expansion Approach
with Luiz Augusto Barroso, Marcia Fampa, Sergio Granville and Mario Veiga Pereira
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2005)

Other Writings

International Trade
with David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal, Laura Boudreau, Isabela Manelici, Brian McCaig, Pamela Medina, Ameet Morjaria, Luigi Pascali, Bob Rijkers and Meredith Startz
VoxDevLit, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2022)