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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Reserve Currencies in an Evolving International Monetary System
    With Alina Iancu, Gareth Anderson, Sakai Ando, Ethan Boswell, Andrea Gamba, Lusine Lusinyan, Neil Meads, and Yiqun Wu
    Open Economies Review 33, pp. 879-915 (2022).
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GSP Expiration and Declining Exports from Developing Countries
     Canadian Journal of Economics 53(3), August 2020.
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Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of the NAFTA
     With John McLaren
     The Review of Economics and Statistics 98(4), October 2016, pp. 728-741.
     Previous
version NBER Working Paper No. 16535 
     In the media and other citations: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal (January 27, 2017; August 1, 2016; November 22, 2010), The Financial Times, The Washington Post (August 17, 2017; July 17, 2017; February 15, 2017; February 1, 2017; December 19, 2016), Yahoo Finance, Charleston Post Courier, PolitiFact New York, FiveThirtyEight, Boston Globe, ILO interview, WTO World Trade Report 2011 Discussion Forum


EU—Fatty Alcohols (Indonesia): Corporate Structure, Transfer Pricing, and Dumping 
     With Joel Trachtman
     World Trade Review 18(2), April 2019, pp. 245-261.
     Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2018/57, December 2018. 

​Do Anti-dumping Duties Still Matter? The Curious Case of Aluminum Foil
     World Trade Review 17(4), October 2018.
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Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and US Trade Policy
     The World Economy 
40(7), July 2017, pp. 1405-​29.
     InsTED Column

Comparative Advantage and Labor Demand
     With Daniel Lederman
     When Growth is Not Enough: Explaining the Rigidity of Poverty and Inequality in the Dominican Republic,
     eds Francisco Carneiro and Sophie Sirtaine, World Bank Group, 2017.


The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences in Principle and Practice
     
With Emily Blanchard
     The World Economy 38(3), March 2015, pp. 399-424. Lead article.


Accounting for Underutilization of Trade Preference Programs: The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences
     
Canadian Journal of Economics 48(2), May 2015, pp. 408-436. Lead article.

     In the media and other citations: The Washington Post, PIIE Trade Talks Podcast (Episode 19).


Policy Papers and Blogs

Mind the Gap: Decomposing the Public-Private Wage Differential in Lesotho
    Selected Issues Paper, Staff Report for Lesotho 2023 Article IV Consultation, forthcoming.

Trade Integration in Africa—Unleashing the Continent’s Potential in a Changing World
    With Asmaa ElGanainy, Fei Liu, Hans Weisfeld, Ali Abbas, Celine Allard, Hippolyte Balima, Celine Bteish, Rahul Giri, Daniel Kanda, Benjamin Kett, Sergii Meleshchuk, Megan Pohl, Gustavo Ramirez, and Robert Zymek
    IMF Departmental Paper 2023/03, May 2023.

Building a More Food-Secure Sub-Saharan Africa
     With Habtamu Fuje, Henry Rawlings, Ivanova Reyes, and Qianqian Zhang
     Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Economic Outlook, Analytical Note, October 2022. 

Lesotho’s Trade: Overview and Risks
     Selected Issues Paper, Staff Report for Lesotho 2022 Article IV Consultation, June 2022.

In the Race to Vaccinate Sub-Saharan Africa Continues to Fall Behind
     Chart of the Week, IMF Blog, November 22, 2021.

Vaccinating against COVID-19 to Avert a Disaster in Africa
     With Reda Cherif
     IMF Special Series on Covid-19, August 2021.

Trade in Medical Goods: Challenges and a Way Forward for Sub-Saharan Africa
     With Reda Cherif
     IMF Special Series on Covid-19, April 2021.  

Six Charts Show the Challenges Faced by Sub-Saharan Africa
     With Abebe Selassie
     IMF Country Focus, April 15, 2021.

Reserve Currencies in an Evolving International Monetary System
     With Alina Iancu, Gareth Anderson, Sakai Ando, Ethan Boswell, Andrea Gamba, Lusine Lusinyan, Neil Meads, and Yiqun Wu
     IMF Departmental Paper No. 2020/002, November 2020.


Working Papers

From Global Supply Chain Disruptions to Local Inflation: Implications for Monetary Policy
    With Zo Andriantomanga and Marijn Bolhuis, June 2023.

Divided We Fall: Differential Exposure to Geopolitical Fragmentation in Trade
    With Sergii Meleshchuk and Robert Zymek
    IMF Working Paper, forthcoming.

Uncertainty in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact of AGOA Suspensions on Exports
    With Habtamu Edjigu and Woubet Kassa
    World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10424, May 2023, under review.

Global Supply Chain Disruptions: Challenges for Inflation and Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
    With Zo Andriantomanga and Marijn Bolhuis
    IMF Working Paper 2023/039, February 2023.

Equitable access to vaccines: Myth or reality? 
    With Henry Rawlings and Jiaxiong Yao
    IMF Working Paper 2022/257.

NAFTA and the Gender Wage Gap
     With John McLaren
     
Upjohn Institute Working Paper 17-270, 2017, under review.

Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing 
     With Daniel Lederman
     
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7777, 2017.

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Work in Progress
​Local-Labor-Market Effects of NAFTA: The Other Shoe Drops (with John McLaren)
Accounting for Transshipment: The Case of Kosovo
Determinants of Intra- and Trans-Regional Value Chain Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Robert Zymek and Kabinet Kaba)
Tangled up in a Spaghetti Bowl: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa (with Lichen Wang)
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