Papers

The Economic Impacts of the US-China Trade War (with Amit Khandelwal).
Forthcoming, Annual Review of Economics.

Trade, Structural Transformation and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869-1914 (with Stephen Redding).
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 130 (2022). [ Web Appendix ] [ Slides ]

Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network (with Amit Khandelwal, Wookun Kim, Cristiano Mantovani, and Edouard Schaal). American Economic Review: Insights, Vol 3 (2021). [ Slides ]

Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium (with Edouard Schaal).
Econometrica, vol. 88 (2020). [ Matlab Toolbox ] [ Slides ] [ Application to US States ]

The Return to Protectionism (with Pinelopi Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, and Amit Khandelwal).
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 135 (2020), Editor's Choice.
[ Replication Files ] [ Updated Results with 2019 Tariffs ] [ Tariff Data 2018 ] [ Tariff Data 2018 and 2019 ]
[ Slides ] [ Slides (nontechnical) ]

Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting (with Cecile Gaubert).
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 135 (2020). [ Slides ]

Labour Market Frictions, Firm Growth, and International Trade
Review of Economic Studies, vol. 87 (2020).

State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation (with Eduardo Morales, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, and Owen Zidar)
Review of Economic Studies, vol. 86 (2019).

Uncertainty Traps (with Edouard Schaal and Mathieu Taschereau Dumouchel)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 132 (2017).

Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade (with Amit Khandelwal)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 131 (2016).

Internal Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization (with Kerem Coşar)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 8 (2016).

A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment (with Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman)
Review of Economic Studies, vol. 82 (2015).

Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade (with Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman)
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 119 (2011).

Works in Progress

The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations (with Pinelopi Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, Amit Khandelwal, and Daria Taglioni), December 2021.

Political Economy of Transport Infrastructure: Evidence from California High-Speed Rail (with Cecile Gaubert, Nicole Gorton, Eduardo Morales, and Edouard Schaal).

Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina (with David Atkin, Joaquin Blaum, and Augusto Ospital).