Working Papers

•  Natural Resources, Federal Tax Changes, and Environmental Regulation: Can Contractionary Fiscal Policies Increase Air Pollution? (with Ohad Raveh and Brock Smith).

•  Are Technology Improvements Contractionary? The Role of Natural Resources (with Ohad Raveh and Frederick van der Ploeg). 

•  Spatial Misallocation of Complementary Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Brazil  (with Rafael Serrano-Quintero and Jevgenijs Steinbuks).

•  Electricity Access and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil's Electrification (with Jevgenijs Steinbuks, José Gustavo Feres and Ian Michael Trotter). 

  • • • • Previous version as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WBS9182, 2020. 

        • Related WB Blog column: "How Brazil’s investment in hydropower infrastructure contributed to its long-term development".

•  The Economic Linkages of Covid-19 Across Sectors and Regions in the UK (with Rafael Serrano-Quintero).

•  Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle (with Chris Papageorgiou and Nicola Spatafora). 

  • • • • Previous version as IMF Working Paper WP/19/259, November 2019.

Work in Progress

•  Infrastructure and Violent Conflict (with Jevgenijs Steinbuks).

•  Supply Chains and Labor Mobility Across European Regions (with Rafael Serrano-Quintero).

•  Natural Disasters and Structural Transformation (with Chris Papageorgiou).

•  Resource Abundance, Environmental Regulation, and Sectoral FDI (with Nadia Doytch and Mohamed Elheddad).