Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities (with Brian McCaig and Nina Pavcnik)
NBER Working Paper 30729, CEPR Discussion Paper 19903, STEG Working Paper 45, CESifo Working Paper 10168
Accepted, The Review of Economics and Statistics
Media: VoxDevTalks Podcast
Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2025): 1-19.
with Lucinda Roberts and Joanna Merson
Entrepôt: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 16.4 (2024): 239–78.
with Sharat Ganapati and Oren Ziv
Published Version and Code, NBER Working Paper 29015, CESifo Working Paper 8199, STEG Working Paper 14
Media: AP News, Trade Talks, Today Explained (Vox.com), Washington Post, Fortune, Quartz, Trade Winds, USA Today, World Bank Transport for Development
Route-Level Containerized Trade Cost Dataset (zip), Dataset Description
How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Journal of Economic Perspectives 37.3 (2023): 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, VoxEU
The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14.4 (2022): 127-66.
Published Version and Code, Ungated version.
Winner, 2019 Sundaran Memorial Prize for Young Malaysian Researchers by the World Bank
Media: Trade Talks, Trade Winds
The Role of Non-Discrimination in a World of Discriminatory Preferential Trade Agreements
Canadian Journal of Economics 55.1 (2022): 174-212.
with Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz
Published version, CESifo Working Paper 8139
Should the WTO Require Free Trade Agreements to Eliminate Internal Tariffs?
Journal of International Economics 118 (2019): 316-330.
with Kamal Saggi and Halis Murat Yildiz
Media: InsTED Column
Multimodal Transport Networks (with Simon Fuchs)
CEPR Working Paper DP19531, Atlanta Fed Working Paper 2022-13, CESifo Working Paper 11362
Media: NPR Marketplace (Oct 2024), KPTV, NPR Marketplace (Jan 2025)
Free Rider Effect and Market Power in Trade Agreements
Finalist, 2016 Malaysian Young Researcher Prize by the World Bank
Evaluating Transportation Improvements Quantitatively: A Primer (with Treb Allen and Simon Fuchs)
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 Philipp Ludwig, Sharat Ganapati and Oren Ziv)
Container Ports (with Philip Economides and Simon Fuchs)