Research Statement (June 2023)


Working Papers and Work in Progress

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

Informality and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-offs of Trade Liberalization
with Sharon Traiberman

Regional Policy in the Presence of Informality
with Sharon Traiberman and Nicolas Urdaneta

The Distributional Impacts of Decarbonization Policies
with Saverio Spinella, Jeffrey Sun and Sharon Traiberman

Publications and Forthcoming Papers

Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality  [Supplementary Material[Video]  [Slides], May  2025
with Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir and Gabriel Ulyssea
Forthcoming at Econometrica, conditional on replication package approval
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

Globalization and Inequality in Latin America [Video]  [Slides]

with Brian Kovak

Oxford Open Economics, Volume 4, Issue Supplement 1 (2025)

This paper is part of the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review  [LACIR]


Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment  [Online Appendix]  [Data Appendix]  [Replication Files[Video]  [Slides]
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]  [Slides]
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[Slides]
with Brian Kovak
Journal of International Economics, Vol. 117 March (2019)
VoxDev ColumnTrade Talks

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

Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics  [Online Appendix[Slides]
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]  [Slides]
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. 2 (2025)

Efeitos Distributivos de Aberturas Comerciais
In Integração Comercial Internacional do Brasil, edited by Centro de Debates de Políticas Públicas (2025)