Research

For a list of my published works, please visit my 

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Recent publications

• Firm-Level Responses to Export Demand Shocks: Swedish and Finnish Exporters (with Terhi Maczulskij and Zouheir El-Sahli) published in  Economica in April 2026.

Under Review

• Service Imports, Worforce Composition and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata (with Andrea Ariu  and Bradford Jensen), R&R #2 submitted in April 2026

Ongoing research

•  Cross-Border Investment and Digital Technology Adoption: Firm-level Evidence from Korea (with Rolando Avendano, Sang Hyun Park, Jennifer P, Poole and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino)

• Global Value Chain Participation in Emerging Asia. Evidence from Firm-Level Data (with Neil Forster-McGregor)

•  Zombies, Insolvency Reforms and Allocation of Finance (with Abhishek Kumar)

•  The Role of Special Economic Zones in Shaping Viet Nam's Local Business Environment

•  The Business Climate, Economic Complexity and Performance at the Provincial Level  (with Ari Kokko and Nguyen Tien Thong)

•  A Descriptive Analysis of Firm-level Development in Vietnam between 2000 and 2020 (with Ari Kokko and Nguyen Tien Thong)

•  What Explains the Success of Emerging Asia's Service Exporters? ADB Working Paper no 806, 2025 (with Andrea Ariu)