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Cross-border value-added tax fraud in the European Union (with Annalisa Tassi) [WP version]
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2025
Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from International Trade [WP version][Replication package]
European Economic Review, 2023
Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology (with Huanhuan Zheng)
International Business Review, 2023
Export Fraud in India (with Mehtab Ahmed Jagil) [WP version]
World Trade Review, 2023
Programming Strategies or the Making of Success. Evidence from the La Grange and Comédie-Française Registers (1659-1793) (with Louise Moulin)
European Drama and Performance Studies, 2022
Tariff Evasion with Endogenous Enforcement [WP version]
Economics Letters, 2021
Trade intertemporal reporting discrepancies: a puzzle [May 2022]
I document a puzzling pattern in international trade in the European Union (EU): some transactions are reported in December by importers, while they are reported in January of the next year by exporters. I attempt but fail to understand whether this pattern results from innocuous measurement errors, or whether traders manipulate reporting for tax-saving purposes.A Geometry of Innovation (with Friedrich Geiecke) [August 2020]
We use methods from Natural Language Processing to characterize the innovative content of patents. We develop several metrics that compare inventions to existing and future innovations. The intuition guiding us is that patents dissimilar to past inventions and similar to future ones may have anticipated or started shifts in innovation topics. We find non-causal evidence that such patents have higher citations and the firms owning them grow faster and are more profitable relative to other firms. Analysis of trends suggests that innovative ideas may have gotten harder to find over time in high-innovation fields.