Research

Publications and Forthcoming

Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity with Heitor Pellegrina
(Pre-published version) (Longer most recent WP: Aug 2022) (NBER WP) (STEG WP) (Replication files)
Forthcoming at Journal of Political Economy 

Skill, Agglomeration, and Inequality in the Spatial Economy  (PDF) (Replication files) (Published version)
International Economic Review, 2021

Global Sourcing in Oil Markets (PDF) (Online Appendix) (Replication files) (Published version)
Journal of International Economics, 2020

Land Use in Computable General Equilibrium Models with F. Taheripour, X. Zhao, M. Horridge, and W. Tyner  (Published version)  
Journal of Global Economic Analysis, 2020

Wage Inequality and the Location of Cities with David Jinkins (PDF) (Replication files) (Published version)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2019

Working Papers

Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? with Ahmad Lashkaripour (Last version: Sep 2021) (STEG WP)
R&R at Econometrica

Trade Elasticities in General Equilibrium: Demand, Supply, and Aggregation with Anson Soderbery (Last version: Jan 2022) 
R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics

Root Growing and Path Dependence in Location Choice: Evidence from Danish Refugee Placement with David Jinkins (Last version: Oct 2022)
R&R at Regional Science and Urban Economics

Trade, Technology Adoption, and Inequality in Distorted Economies with Ahmad Lashkaripour and Heitor Pellegrina (Last version: Sep 2022) 
R&R at Journal of International Economics

Gains from Trade and the Food Engel Curve with Chong Xiang and David Jinkins (IZA WP, Sep 2022) 

Work in Progress

Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective with Elliot Kang, Heitor Pellegrina, and Sebastian Sotelo
We study the implications of trade and economic growth on deforestation from a global perspective. We build a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade and land use, in which structural change and comparative advantage determine the extent, location, and timing of deforestation. Preliminary results indicate that the global forest area would expand in response to multilateral trade liberalization in agriculture, but that it would shrink when the liberalization is experienced by individual regions.

The Climate Cost of Trade with Ahmad Lashkaripour
We examine whether international trade exacerbates climate damage, and if so, to what extent. We incorporate climate externalities into commonly-used trade models, and propose sufficient statistics for the climate cost of trade. We consider various features of the global economy—such as flexible abatement technologies, scale economies, input-output linkages, and endogenous supply of fossil fuels—and evaluate how each of them affects the climate cost of trade.