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Cross-country relation between productivity and value added shares in GVCs
"Cling Together, Swing Together: The Contagious Effects of COVID-19 on Developing Countries Through Global Value Chainsa" (with Clara Brandi, Jakob Schwab, Frederik Stender). The World Economy (2021).
"Do Global Value Chains Enhance Economic Upgrading? A Long View" (with Marcel P. Timmer). Journal of Development Studies (2020).
Employment growth by level of GVC participation
"Patterns of Vertical Specialisation in Trade: Long-Run Evidence for 91 countries" (with Marcel P. Timmer). Review of World Economics (2019).
World VAX-D ratio
"Indirect exports of SMEs: evidence from Vietnam" (with Tevin Tafese).
"Value-Added Gains from Trade Facilitation: Evidence from Developing Countries in Africa and Asia". GGDC Research Memorandum 185
"Structural Change in Exports: From Product to Functional Specialization in Trade" (with Marcel P. Timmer). In Foster-McGregor, N., Alcorta, L., Szirmai, A., & Verspagen, B. (2021). New Perspectives on Structural Change: Causes and Consequences of Structural Change in the Global Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Cities and Rural Transformation: A Spatial Analysis of Rural Youth Livelihoods in Ghana" (with Xinshen Diao, Peixun Fang, Eduardo Magalhaes, Jed Silver). In V. Mueller, & J. Thurlow (2020), Youth and Jobs in Rural Africa: Beyond Stylized Facts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
"Global Value Chains and Economic Development". University of Groningen, SOM Research School (2020).