Publications



The international diffusion of food innovations and the nutrition transition: retrospective longitudinal evidence from country-level data, 1970-2010 (with Anne-Celia Disdier and Fabrice Etile). BMJ Global health (2023). 8:e012062


Globalization, fertility and marital behavior in a lowest low fertility setting (with Osea Giuntella and Luca Stella). Demography (2022), 10275366. Related VoxEU column (6 Jul 2022).


Trade barriers in government procurement (with Alen Mulabdic). European Economic Review (2022). 148, 104204.

This is a revised version of World Bank Policy Research WP 9602 (Feb. 2021). A summary of the findings has appeared in: Trade barriers in government procurement,  Vox eBook Chapters,  in The Economics of Deep Trade Agreements,  edited by A. Fernandes, N. Rocha, and M. Ruta, 2021. Centre for Economic Policy Research.


Weight gains from trade in foods: Evidence from Mexico (with Osea Giuntella and Matthias Rieger), Journal of International Economics (2020), 122, 103277.

Previous versions: IZA DP 12677; NBER WP 24942. Previously circulated under the title "Trade in unhealthy foods and obesity: Evidence from Mexico". See also our VoxEU.org column (2 Feb. 2018), and Pro-Market blog entry (15 Nov. 2018). Media coverage: Liberation (in French, 22 Apr. 2018); Challenges (in French, 15 March 2018); Bloomberg (21 Feb. 2018).

Wage inequality and skill supplies in a globalised world (with Adrian Wood), Journal of Comparative Economics (2020), 48(3): 529-547. Online Appendix. 

Previous versions: AMSE Working Paper n. 2016-14. Previously circulated as "Wages and endowments in a globalised world", Working Paper 2015-W11, Economics Group Working Paper Series, Nuffield College.

Israel's open-secret trade (with Pierre-Louis Vézina). Review of World Economics (2017), 153(2): 233 - 248. 

Working paper version: AMSE n. 2016-38.

Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual trade in value added (with Tadashi Ito and Pierre-Louis Vézina), Review of International Economics (2017), 25(3): 427 - 446. 

This is a revised version of our IDE Discussion Paper n. 549 (Dec. 2015), Institute of Developing Economies.

Political Stability and Trade Agreements: Evidence for 'endgame FTAs', European Journal of Political Economy (2016), 45: 133 - 148. Online Appendix.


Quota-hopping in-bond diversion (with Pierre-Louis Vézina), Economic Inquiry (2015), 53(1): 34 - 48. 

This is a revised version of our working paper titled "In-bond diversion", WPS/201-664 (July 2013), Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford.

The rise and fall of (Chinese) African apparel exports (with Pierre-Louis Vézina and Zheng Wang), Journal of Development Economics (2013), 105: 152 - 163. 

This is a revised version of our CSAE working paper (2012-12). See also our VoxEU.org column, 14 Oct. 2012. Media coverage: Financial Times (with a reply), Daily Maverick (South Africa). In the blogosphere: CSAE blog, Trade Diversion.

Chinese networks and tariff evasion (with Pierre-Louis Vézina), World Economy (2012), 35(12): 1772 - 1794. Supplementary material. 

This is a revised version of our HEID working paper. See also our VoxEU.org column, 24 Nov. 2010.