My current research explores three themes in international economics: the impact of financial frictions on international trade and investment; the role of firm heterogeneity in productivity, product quality and management practices; and the determinants and consequences of global value chains.
Working Papers
Trade, Productivity, and (Mis)allocation
August 2018. CEPR Working Paper. Under review. (with Antoine Berthou, Jong Hyun Chung and Charlotte Sandoz)
Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks
November 2021. (with Hanwei Huang, Oscar Perello and Frank Pisch)
Tickets to the Global Market: First U.S. Patents and Chinese Firm Exports
April 2022. (with Robin Kaiji Gong, Yao Amber Li and Stephen Teng Sun)
UK Trade in the Wake of Brexit
April 2022. CEP Discussion Paper 1847. (with Rebecca Freeman, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson)
Featured in Financial Times, The Economist, BBC, SkyNews, Independent, Telegraph, Bloomberg, CEPR E-book & podcast.
Work in Progress
Multinational Firms and Global Innovation
With Anna Gumpert, Cristina Rujan and Monika Schnitzer