Recent Publications

• "The Political Economy of Protection in GVCs: Evidence from Chinese Micro Data" (with Anna Maria Mayda, Miaojie Yu and Zhi Yu), Journal of International Economics, Volume 131, July 2021.

• "The Sword and the Shield: The Economics of Targeted Sanctions," (with Daniel Ahn), European Economic Review, Volume 130, November 2020.

• "Information and Legislative Bargaining: The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions" (with Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra), Review of Economics and Statistics, , Volume 100, Issue 2, 303-318, May 2018. (long version)

• "Measuring Smartness: The Economic Impact of Targeted Sanctions against Russia" (with Daniel Ahn), in Tibor Besedes and Volker Nitsch (eds.), Disrupted Economic Relationships: Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions, MIT Press, 2019.

• "Dragons, Giants, Elephants and Mice: Evolution of the MFN Free Rider Problem in the WTO Era, " (with Anna Maria Mayda and John McClure), in Ben Zissimos (ed.), The WTO and Development, MIT Press, 2019.

• "Tariff pass-through, firm heterogeneity and product quality" (with Zhi Yu), Journal of International Economics, Volume 103, 234-249, November 2016.

• "Do Terms-of-Trade Effects Matter for Trade Agreements? Theory and Evidence from WTO Countries" (with Anna Maria Mayda), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (4): 1837-1893, September 2013.

Working Papers

• "Firm Input Choice under Trade Policy Uncertainty" (with Kyle Handley, Nuno Limao and Zhu Yu), NBER working paper #27910, September 2020.

• "Uneven Stumbling Blocks: Latin American Regionalism Revisited," (with Anna Maria Mayda and Christian Volpe), working paper, November 2016.