Antoine Gervais

Research Interest

International Trade

Work in Progress

• Estimating Trade Elasticities when Unobserved Shocks are Correlated, with Patrick Richard

• Business Cycles, Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade, with Ako Viou Bahun-Wilson and Masashige Hamano

Working Papers

Publications

• Gervais, A. (2024). A Decomposition of the Variance of International Trade Flows, 68, 2073-2092. Empirical Economics.

• Gervais, A., Markusen, J. R.  & Venables, A. J.  (2024). Inter-city Specialization and Trade in Functions versus Sectors. Canadian Journal of Economics, 57(4), 1236-1264. (NBER WP28352; CEPR DP15677; CESifo WP8837), Dataset. Harry Johnson Prize winner for 2024

• Bergstrand, J. H., Cray, S. R., & Gervais, A. (2023). The Gains from International Trade with Increasing Marginal Costs, Journal of International Economics, 103774.

• Gervais, A., (2023) Controlling for Exporter-Year Factors when Estimating Import-Demand Elasticities, Economics Letters, 111272.

• Gervais, A., (2021). Global Sourcing under Uncertainty, Canadian Journal of Economics,  54(3), 1103-1135.

• Gervais, A., & Jensen J. B. (2019). The Tradability of Services: Geographic Concentration and Trade Costs, Journal of International Economics, 118,  331-350. (NBER WP19759) Industry level  indexes of tradability available upon requests.

• Gervais, A. (2019) Indirect Measures of Trade Costs : Limitations and Caveats, Economics Letters, 176, 96-102.

• Gervais, A. (2018). Estimating the Impact of Country-level Policy Restrictions on Services Trade. Review of International Economics, 26(4), 743-767.

• Gervais, A. (2018). Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and International Trade, Journal of International Economics, 115, 145-158. Data and code.

• Gervais, A. (2018). Multiregional Firms and Region Switching in the US Manufacturing Sector. Economic Inquiry, 56(2), 955-982.

• Gervais, A. (2016). The Impact of Price Uncertainty on US Imports of Homogeneous Goods, Economics Letters, 143(C), 16-19.

• Gervais, A. (2015). Product Quality and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade, Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(3), 1152-1174. [Appendix]

• Gervais, A. (2015). Product Quality, Firm Heterogeneity and Trade Liberalization, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 24(4), 523-541.

• Gervais, A. (2015). Trade and Growth: A Gravity Approach, Southern Economic Journal, 82(2), 453-470.