Papers

"Trade, Human Capital and Income Risk," with Liuchun Deng and Mine Senses and Jens Stegmaier, Under Revisions, 2024 (NBER Working Paper: 29612)

 

"Liquidity Shocks and Firm Exports: Evidence From Cash Shortages During India's Demonetization," with Ritam Chaurey and Ryan Kim, Under Submission, 2025, (NBER Working Paper: W33142)

 

"Input Output Networks and Misallocation," with Jing Hang and Heiwai Tang,  Under Revisions, 2024 (NBER Working Paper: W27983)

 

"Growth and Risk: A View from International Trade," with Andrei Levchenko, Lin Ma and William Maloney, Journal of International Economics, 2023

 

“India: Enhancing External Openness to Sustain Higher Growth,” in India as a Leading Power, Ashley Tellis (editor), Penguin Random House, 2022

 

India’s Free Trade Agreements and the Future of India’s Trade Policy,” Indian Public Policy Journal, March 2021.

 

Protectionist Myths,” with Jagdish Bhagwati and Francisco Rivera Batiz, Encyclopedia of International Economics and Global Trade, 2020

 

“Special Economic Zones and Economic Growth,” with Vivek Dehejia, in Amitabh Kant  (editor), Transformative Ideas for India, 2020

 

"Preferential Trade Agreements: Recent Theoretical and Empirical Developments," with James Lake, in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, 2019

 

Income Risk, Income Mobility and Welfare,” with Tom Krebs and William Maloney, World Bank Economic Review, 2019

 

A Political-Economic Account of Global Tariffs,” with Kishore Gawande and Marcelo Olarreaga, Economics and Politics, 2015

 

International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States,” with Mine Senses, Review of Economic Studies, 2014

 

Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility,” with Jennifer Poole and Mine Senses, Journal of International Economics, 2014

 

Complexity, Comparative Advantage and Volatility,” with Andrei Levchenko, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014

 

“On the Theory and Empirics of Preferential Trade Agreements,” Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, edited by Bernhofen et al., Palgrave McMillan: UK, 2013

 

Preferential Trade Agreements and the World Trade System: A Multilateralist View,” Globalization in an Age of Crisis: Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century, NBER, edited by Robert Feenstra and Alan Taylor, University of Chicago Press, 2013 (Proceedings from an NBER-Bank of England Conference organized in London, Fall 2011)

 

Trade, Labor Market Frictions, and Residual Wage Inequality across Worker Groups,” with Jennifer Poole and Mine Senses, Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association, American Economic Review, 2012

 

Trade and Income Inequality in India,” with Guru Sethupathy, in India: Trade, Poverty, Inequality and Democracy, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Oxford University Press, 2012

 

Lobbying Competition over Trade Policy,” with Kishore Gawande and Marcelo Olarreaga, International Economic Review, 2012

 

“Trade, Poverty and Lagging Regions in South Asia,” with Devashish Mitra and Asha Sundaram, in The Poor Half Billion in South Asia, edited by Ejaz Ghani, Oxford University Press, 2010

   

"Trade Adjustment and Labor Income Risk," with Mine Senses, Trade Adjustment Costs in Developing Countries: Impacts, Determinants and Policy Responses, edited by Bernard Hoekman and Guido Porto, World Bank, 2010

 

Trade Policy, Income Risk and Welfare,” with Tom Krebs and William Maloney, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010

 

What Governments Maximize and Why: A View from International Trade,” with Kishore Gawande and Marcelo Olarreaga, International Organization, 2009

 

“The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements”, in Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements, edited by Simon Lester and Bryan Mercurio, Cambridge University Press, 2009 

 

“Multilateralism,” Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, 2009

 

````Regionalism,” Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, 2009

 

“Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy with Majority Voting,” with Devashish Mitra, Journal of Development Economics, 2007

 

“Trade Policy, Human Capital and Income Risk,” with Tom Krebs and William Maloney, Globalization: Problems and Prospects – Essays in Honor of Jagdish Bhagwati, edited by Elias Dinopoulos, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya and Kar-Yiu Wong, Routledge, 2007

 

“Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy,” with Kishore Gawande and Michael Robbins, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 

 

“Preferential Trade Agreements,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Lawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf, 2006 

 

“Reciprocated Unilateralism: A Political Economy Approach,” with Devashish Mitra, Journal of International Economics, 2005

 

                          “The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements,” in the Handbook of International Trade, edited by James Hartigan, Basil Blackwell, 2005

 

“The Factor Content of Bilateral Trade: An Empirical Test,” with Yong-Seok Choi, Journal of Political Economy, 2004

 

“Unilateralism in Trade Policy,” with Devashish Mitra, in The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Investment Policies, edited by Arvind Panagariya and Devashish Mitra, Elsevier, 2004

                                           

                           “Are Regional Trading Partners ‘Natural’?” Journal of Political Economy, 2003

                                           

                        “The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Empirical Approaches,” with Kishore Gawande, Handbook of International Trade, edited by James Harrigan, Basil Blackwell, 2004


                           “On the Existence of Necessarily Welfare Improving Free Trade Areas,” with Arvind Panagariya, Journal of International     Economics, 2002

 

                           “Market Structure, Demand and Endogenous Firm Efficiency,” Economic Theory, 2001

                                           

                       “Trade Liberalization and Factor Demand Elasticities: Evidence from Turkey,” with Sajjid Chinoy and Devashish Mitra, Journal of               International Economics, 2001

 

                           “A Unification of Second Best Results in International Trade,” with Arvind Panagariya, Journal of International Economics, 2000

 

                         “Trade Liberalization, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from India” with Devashish Mitra,  

                           Journal of Development Economics, 1998

 

 “Regionalism versus Multilateralism: A Political Economy Approach,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998 (Reprinted in Bhagwati et al editors, Trading Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Arrangements, MIT Press)

 

“Necessarily Welfare Improving Customs Unions with Industrialization Constraints: The Cooper-Massell-Johnson-Bhagwati Proposition,” with J. Bhagwati, Japan and the World Economy, 1997 (Reprinted in Bhagwati et al editors, Trading Blocs: Alternate Analyses of Preferential Trade Arrangements, MIT Press)

 

                      “The Impact of Trade Policy Reforms on Labor Markets: Evidence from India,” with Uma Kambhampati and Devashish Mitra, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 1997

 

“A Political Economy Analysis of Preferential Trading and Multilateralism,” Papers and Proceedings of the Eastern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Journal, 1996