Research

Journal articles:

• Gravity and trade in video on demand services  (with Annette Broocks).  Review of World Economics,  2024

• Local labour market concentration in Ireland (with Kevin Devereux).  Economic and Social Review, 2024

• Products or markets: What type of experience matters for export survival?  (with Martina Lawless). Review of World Economics,  2024

• Old Firms and New Export Flows: Does Experience Increase Survival?  (with Martina Lawless).  Open Economics Review, 2023

•  A review of submissions to International Tax and Public Finance, 2010-2020 (with Ron Davies). International Tax and Public Finance, 2023

• The impact of taxes on the extensive and intensive margins of FDI (with Ron Davies and Iulia, Siedschlag ). International Tax and Public Finance, 2021

• South-North trade in Ireland: Gravity and Firms from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit (with Martina Lawless and Peter Neary), Economic and Social Review, 2019,

• Firm strategies in expanding and diversifying exports (with Martina Lawless and Iulia Siedschlag),   World Economy, 2019

• The impact of regional trade agreements on European exports (with Wouther Thierie and Jan Van Hove),  International Economics and Economic Policy, 2019

• The heterogeneous impact of Brexit: Early indications from the FTSE (with Ron Davies),  European Economic Review, 2018

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• David vs. Goliath? Smaller European exporting firms facing Asian competition on global markets (with Filip Abraham and Jan Van Hove), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2016

• Distance and Border Effects in International Trade - A Comparison of Estimation Methods  (with Glenn Magerman and Jan Van Hove ) Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2016

Book chapters:

• Bagayev I., & Studnicka Z., (2019). International trade does not defy gravity. In T. Brancaccio,Y. Deli, I. Pastine, & C. Whelan (Eds), Economics in Action: Topics and Resources. McGraw-Hill.

• Export Strategies of Belgian Chocolate Companies (with Filip Abraham and Jan Van Hove) In: Squicciarini, Mara P. and Johan Swinnen, The Economics of Chocolate, 2016. Oxford University Press.

Working papers:

• Have you eaten? The long-run impact of the Great Leap Famine on recent trade (with Zilong Li)

• Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level  (with Kevin Devereux)

• Online interactions, trade and the gravity model  (with Constantin Burgi)

Work in progress (selected):

• Are  firm imports a driver of exports? (with Martina Lawless)

•  Export market entry and initial values (with Martina Lawless)

•  What's next? Returning to exports after a failure (with Mattia Di Ubaldo)