Publications

Selected Publications

"Police Militarization and Local Sheriff Elections", with Christos Mavridis and Orestis Troumpounis. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2024. Featured in an article in The Conversation and in the Boston Globe.
"Exposure to International Trade Lowers Green Voting and Worsens Environmental Attitudes”, with Charlotte Bez, Valentina Bosetti and Italo Colantone. Nature Climate Change, 2023.
"The Short and Long-Run Effects of International Environmental Agreements on Trade", with Josh Ederington and Mihai Paraschiv, Journal of International Economics 139, 2022. Featured in a CEPR Vox column.
“Global Value Chains and the Removal of Trade Protection”, with Chad Bown and Aksel Erbahar, European Economic Review 140, 2021. Featured in a CEPR Vox column and covered by the Wall Street Journal.
“The Tyranny of the Single Minded: Guns, Environment, and Abortion”, with Laurent Bouton, Paola Conconi and Francisco Pino, Review of Economics and Statistics 103, 2021, 48-59. Featured in a CEPR Vox column , on ProMarket, and on Academic Times.
“Preferential Trade Agreements and Antidumping Protection”, with Chrysostomos Tabakis, Journal of International Economics 121, 2019. The dataset used in this paper and a replication program can be downloaded here.
“Antidumping Echoing”, with Chrysostomos Tabakis, Economic Inquiry 55, 2017, 655-681.
“Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes”, with Paola Conconi, David DeRemer, Georg Kirchsteiger, and Lorenzo Trimarchi, Journal of International Economics 105, 2017, 57-76. Featured in a CEPR Vox column and The Washington Post.
“The Internationalization Process of Firms: from Exports to FDI”, with Paola Conconi and André Sapir, Journal of International Economics 99, 2016, 16-30.
“Policymakers' Horizon and Economic Reforms: The Protectionist Effect of Elections”, with Paola Conconi and Giovanni Facchini, Journal of International Economics 94(1), 2014, 102-118. Featured in The Economist (online). The dataset used in this paper and a replication program can be downloaded here.
“Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability”, with Paola Conconi and Nicolas Sahuguet, Journal of the European Economic Association 12(4), 2014, 997-1028. Featured in a CEPR Vox column and reviewed by Matthew O. Jackson on NAJ Economics.
“Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations”, with Paola Conconi and Giovanni Facchini, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4(3), 2012, 146-189. Featured in a CEPR Vox column. The dataset and program to replicate the results are available here.
“The Chilling Trade Effects of Antidumping Proliferation”, with Hylke Vandenbussche, European Economic Review 54(6), 2010, 760-777. Featured in a CEPR Vox column.

Re-printed in Dumping and Antidumping Trade Protection (2019) volume edited by Bruce A. Blonigen and Thomas J. Prusa, part of the series on “The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics” published by Edward Elgar.

“Political Pressure Deflection”, with James Anderson, Public Choice 141(1), 2009, 129-150.
“Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries?”, with Michael Moore, Canadian Journal of Economics 42(2), 2009, 469-495.

“What Explains the Proliferation of Antidumping Laws?”, with Hylke Vandenbussche, Economic Policy 23(53), 2008, 93-138. Featured in a CEPR Vox column.
“Antidumping Law as a Collusive Device”, Canadian Journal of Economics 37(1), 2004, 95-122.

Other Publications

“The Political Economy of Trade and Migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress”, with Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini and Max Steinhardt, Economics & Politics 32, 2020, 250-278. Featured in a CEPR Vox column.
“Electoral Incentives, Terms Limits, and the Sustainability of Peace”, with Paola Conconi and Nicolas Sahuguet, European Journal of Political Economy 51, 2018, 15-26.
“China - HP-SSST: Last Part of Growing Pains?”, with Dukgeun Ahn, World Trade Review 16, 2017, 159-181.
“The First Review of EU Antidumping Reviews”, with Andreea C. Nita, The World Economy 36(12), 2013, 1455-1477. The dataset used in this paper can be downloaded here.
“Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?”, with Michael Moore, Review of Development Economics 15(4), 2011, 601-619.
“Does Reduced Trade Tax Revenue Affect Government Spending Patterns?”, with Michael Moore, International Tax and Public Finance 18(5), 2011, 555-579.
“Antidumping: a Problem in International Trade”, European Journal of Political Economy 22(3), 2006, 591-617. Longer version available as CentER Working Paper 85, 2005.
“Development Policy Lending, Conditionality and Ownership: A Dynamic Agency Model Perspective”, with Alberto Paloni, Review of Development Economics 10(2), 2006, 253-266.
The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform, with Alberto Paloni (editors). London, U.K.: Routledge, 2006.
“Can Conditionality Improve Borrower Ownership?”, with Alberto Paloni in A. Paloni and M. Zanardi (editors), The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform. London, U.K.: Routledge, 2006.
“Anti-Dumping versus Anti-Trust: Trade and Competition Policy”, with Ian Wooton in J. Hartigan and K. Choi (editors), Handbook of International Trade: Economic and Legal Analysis of Laws and Institutions. Oxford, U.K. and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.
“Antidumping: What are the Numbers to Discuss at Doha?”, The World Economy 27(3), 2004, 403-433. Tables and graphs can be downloaded here. Longer version available as University of Glasgow Discussion Paper 2002-15.

Policy Reports

Market Economy Status to China: the Potential Economic Impacts for the EU, with Joseph Francois; European Parliament, 2016.
The Reform of the EU’s Trade Defence Instruments, with Hylke Vandenbussche, Jozef Konings, and Jan Wouters; European Parliament, 2008.
Global Connections Survey 2001/2002, with Anton Muscatelli and Ian Wooton; Scottish Council for Development and Industry, 2002.