Working Papers

SUBMITTED OR UNDER REVIEW (SOCIAL SCIENCES)

“The Economic Case for Global Vaccinations: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks” with Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan & Sevcan Yeşiltaş, NBER Working Paper No. 28395, January 2021; CEPR DP No. 15710, January 2021.
- - Referred by the WHO Director during a press conference, the UN Secretary General during his remarks to Member States on Priorities for 2021 and the WTO Director during an interview. Highlighted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Guardian, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, US News, El Pais, Le Figaro, La Libre, Bloomberg, The Associated Press, Spiegel, Foreign Policy, MIT Technology Review, BBC News, BBC World, BBC Radio, CBC, Channel 4 (UK), France 24, Voice of America, Irish Times, Manila Times, Rio Times and many others.
  - VoxEU: Economic costs of inequitable vaccine distribution across the world, 15 Feb 2021
  - Second Revision requested by the Review of Economic Studies.
“Pandemic-Era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers” with Julian Di Giovanni, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan & Alvaro Silva, NBER Working Paper No. 31887 (November 2023); CEPR DP No. 18628 (November 2023).
“Stuck on the Road: Traffic Congestion and Stock Returns” with Serkan Imisiker & BK Onur Tas.
“The Importance of Sentiment, Risk Attitudes, and Communication Policies during COVID-19 Pandemic,” with Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Önder Ergönül & Sevcan Yeşiltaş (all authors contributed equally).
“The Countercyclical Inventory Adjustments in Offsetting Supply Chain Disruptions” with Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp & Sevcan Yeşiltaş.

WORKING PAPERS & WORK IN PROGRESS

“Sorting, Matching and Economic Complexity”, Harvard Kennedy School, CID Faculty Working Paper No. 392 (2021).
“Changes in the Input-Output Architecture after Accounting for Investments” with Sebastián Bustos.
“Structure of Comparative Advantage” with Sebastián Bustos.
“A trade-based measure of government efficiency” with Sebastián Bustos.
“Uncovering trade flows” with Sebastián Bustos.
“Measuring Venezuelan Emigration with Twitter” with Ricardo Hausmann & Julian Hinz, Harvard Kennedy School CID Faculty Working Paper No. 342, May 2018. Kiel Working Paper No. 2106, 2018.