Research Interests
International Trade, Productivity and Growth, Competition Policies
Published Papers
“Do Trade Policy Differences Induce Sorting? Theory and Evidence From Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters” (with Hiau Looi Kee and Kala Krishna), forthcoming in Journal of International Economics.
“Trade Policy under Firm-Level Heterogeneity in a Small Economy”, (with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare), Journal of International Economics, June 2009, 78(1), pp.100-112
“The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the JIE,” (with Ivan Cherkashin, Susumu Imai and Kala Krishna), Journal of International Economics, February 2009, 77(1), pp.120-132.
“Productivity Improvements and Falling Trade Costs: Boon or Bane?”, International Economic Review, November 2008, 49(4), pp. 1437-1462.
“Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade” (with Costas Arkolakis, Pete Klenow and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2008, 98(2), pp. 444-450.
“Firm Heterogeneity and Firm Behavior with Conditional Policies,” (with Kala Krishna), Economic Letters, February 2008, 98(2), pp. 122-128.
“Trade and Trade Policy with Differentiated Products: A Chamberlinian-Ricardian Model: A Comment,” (with Kala Krishna), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, September 2007, 16(3), pp. 435-441.
Working Papers
· “Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments” (with Ivan Cherkashin, Hiau Looi Kee and Kala Krishna), 2010, NBER Working Paper No. 16557 (under revision at Econometrica).
· “Trade and Welfare in New Trade Models: The Role of the Outside Good” (with Costas Arkolakis and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare), 2010, work in progress.
· “The Simple Analytics of the Melitz Model in a Small Economy” (with Andrés Rodríguez-Clare), 2011, NBER Working Paper No. 17521, submitted