Research

Publications

Entrepôt: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs (with Sharat Ganapati and Oren Ziv) 

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Forthcoming

NBER Working Paper 29015, CESifo Working Paper 8199, STEG Working Paper 14 

Media: Associated Press, Trade Talks (podcast by the Economist and PIIE), Today Explained (Vox.com),  Washington Post, Fortune, Quartz, Trade Winds, USA Today    

Dataset Description 

Route-Level and Trade Route-Level Containerized Trade Cost Dataset (zip) Trade Route Probabilities (zip) 

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020 

Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2023), 37 (3): 3-30. [Lead Article]

with Sharat Ganapati

Published Version and Code, NBER Working Paper 31176, CESifo Working Paper 10398

Media: Wall Street Journal, Supply Chain Digest


The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (October 2022), 14 (4): 127-66. 

Published Version and Code, Ungated version. 

Winner, 2019 Sundaran Memorial Prize for Young Malaysian Researchers by the World Bank

Media: Trade Talks (podcast by the Economist and PIIE), Trade Winds 


The Role of Non-Discrimination in a World of Discriminatory Preferential Trade Agreements

Canadian Journal of Economics (February 2022), 55 (1): 174-212. 

with Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz

Published version, Ungated version.

CESifo Working Paper 8139


Should the WTO Require Free Trade Agreements to Eliminate Internal Tariffs?

Journal of International Economics (May 2019), 118: 316-330. 

with Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz

Published version 

Media: InsTED Column

Previously circulated as ``Preferential Trade Agreements and Rules of the Multilateral Trading System"

Works in Progress

Transshipment Hubs, Trade, and Supply Chains (with Anh Do, Sharat Ganapati, and Oren Ziv)


The Long-Run Relationship between Trade and Growth of Cities (with Bruce Blonigen)


Monopoly on the High Seas: Endogenous Trade Costs (with Sharat Ganapati and Oren Ziv) 


Container Ports (with Philip Economides and Simon Fuchs)

Inactive Research

Transport Networks and Internal Trade Costs: Quantifying the Gains from Repealing the Jones Act (with Scott N. Swisher IV)   

Slides

   Press Coverage: Bloomberg