RESEARCH
Workers in low-income areas of urban India are willing to give up a quarter of their daily wage for a work guarantee
With Stephen Machin
Worker wages fell in industries where intermediate import prices rose by more because of sterling's depreciation from the unexpected Brexit vote
With Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
Old version. Write-up in Voxeu, The Economist, Financial Times. Also on Voxeu and CEPR.
Firms diversify into industries in which they have input-based comparative advantage
Policies to move to an agribusiness model of farm purchases raised agribusiness profits at the expense of farmer earnings in Kenya
With Silvana Tenreyro
Examines evidence on the effects of the Brexit referendum on the UK economy
With Thomas Sampson
Annual Review of Economics, 2022
Examine the trade and welfare consequences of Deep Trade Agreements in goods and services
With Rebecca Freeman and Hanwei Huang
Economica, forthcoming
Examines the allocational efficiency of markets with firms of varying productivity
With John Morrow
Journal of Political Economy, 2019. Awarded the Chair Jacquemin Prize
Note on Existence/Uniqueness and Note on Heterogeneous Firm Trade Models
Estimates the impact of trade agreements on variety, quality and the consumer price index
and Holger Breinlich
With H Huang, G Ottaviano, J Pessoa, T Sampson, J Van Reenen
Economic Policy, 2017
Write-up in Voxeu
Quantifies the welfare impact of reduced trade from Brexit
Examines the impact of trade policy and R&D subsidies on product and process innovation.
The American Economic Review, 2013
Reconciles median voter theory with observed protectionism across countries
Economics and Politics, 2014
With Johannes Boehm and John Morrow
In New Developments in Global Sourcing , MIT Press, 2018
Examines the role of multiproduct firms in the productivity boom of the 2000s
Examines the microstructure of import markets and the division of gains from trade among consumers, importers and exporters
With Andrew Bernard
Informative but confounds economic policy with social policy during the Indian reforms
"Reforms and Economic Transformation in India"
The Journal of Economic Literature, 2013