Sergey Nigai
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Colorado Boulder
Associate Editor
Review of International Economics
sergey dot nigai at colorado dot edu
Sergey Nigai
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Colorado Boulder
Associate Editor
Review of International Economics
sergey dot nigai at colorado dot edu
Working Papers
Firm Location, Industrial Base, and the Gains from Trade, 2026, New version coming soon!
Sectoral Transport Mode Elasticities and International Trade (with J.Ko and A.Truax), 2025, R&R at Journal of International Economics
Publications/Accepted Papers
Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade (with P.Egger and K.Erhardt), 2026, conditially accepted at Quantitative Economics
International Transmission of Inequality through Trade. 2025, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 17 (3): 311–44.
Trade and Inequality: a Sufficient Statistics Approach (with D.Yang), 2024, Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics, 2:3 508-552
Highways and Globalization (with T.Jaworski and C.Kitchens), 2023, International Economic Review, 64: 1615-1648.
Selection Effects, Inequality, and Aggregate Gains from Trade, 2023, Journal of International Economics, 142: 103752
Integrated versus Segmented Markets: Implications for Export Pricing Strategies (with R.Becker and T. Seidel), 2023, Review of International Economics, 2023: 1-23
Gravity Models and the Law of Large Numbers (with C.Jareb), 2022, Economics Letters, 221: 110911.
The Taxing Deed of Globalization (with P.Egger and N.Strecker), 2019, American Economic Review, 109 (2): 353-390.
Sources of Heterogeneous Gains from Trade: Skill-premium vs. Non-homotheticity (with P.Egger), 2018, Review of International Economics (special issue), 2018: 1-19.
A Tale of Two Tails: Productivity Distribution and the Gains from Trade, 2017, Journal of International Economics, 104: 44-62.
On Measuring the Welfare Gains from Trade under Consumer Heterogeneity, 2016, Economic Journal, 126: 1193-1237.
Structural Gravity with Dummies Only: Constrained ANOVA-type Estimation of Gravity Data Model (with P.Egger), 2015, Journal of International Economics, 97(1): 86–99.
Energy Demand and Trade in General Equilibrium (with P.Egger), 2015, Environmental and Resource Economics 60(2): 191-213.
Contagious Energy Prices (with P.Egger and M.Kesina), 2013, World Economy (36)3: 349–362.
Chapters in Books
Effects of deep versus shallow trade agreements in general equilibrium (with Peter Egger) in "Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements" edited by Andreas Duer and Manfred Elsig, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Green Parties, Environmental Taxation and Trade (with Peter Egger) in "Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics" edited by Andrea Kollmann, Johannes Reichl and Friedrich Schneider, MIT Press, 2015.
Permanent Working Papers
World-Trade Growth Accounting (with P.Egger) , March 2016. Previously circulated under "Costs of Isolation: Trade Costs and Growth of the World Trade".
Asymmetric Trade Costs, Trade Imbalances, and the World Income Distribution (with Peter Egger) (This version, September 2012), previously circulated under "International Trade and Income Differences: Re-examination.
The Copenhagen Accord: On Required Implicit Carbon Tax Rates and Their Economic Consequences (with Peter Egger) (This version November, 2012).