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Working Papers

• “Organizing the Global Value Chain,’’ (joint with Davin Chor), November 2011. [Preliminary Draft]. [Slides]

• “Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices,” (joint with C. Fritz Foley), November 2011. [PDF] [Slides]

­Publications

• “Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows,’’ (joint with Davin Chor, Thibault Fally and Russell Hillberry), January 2012, forthcoming American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. [PDF] [Data and Programs] [Slides] [Longer Version]

• “Trade Agreements and the Nature of Price Determination,’’ (joint with Robert W. Staiger), January 2012, forthcoming American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. [PDF] [Slides]
  

•  “Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production,” September 2011, forthcoming Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. [PDF] [Slides]

• “Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements,” (joint with Robert W. Staiger), September 2011, forthcoming American Economic Review. [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Slides]

• “Intermediated Trade,”  (joint with Arnaud Costinot), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126, No. 3, August 2011, pp. 1319-1374. [PDF] [Online Addendum] [Slides]

•  “Foreign Influence and Welfare,” (joint with Gerard Padró i Miquel), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 84, Issue 2, July 2011, pp. 135-148. [PDF] [Longer WP version] [Slides]

•  “International Trade and Organizations,” NBER Reporter 2010, Number 2 (June), pp. 7-10. [PDF]
  

• “Intermediation and Economic Integration,”  (joint with Arnaud Costinot), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 100, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 424–28­. [PDF] [Long­er WP version] [Slides]

• “On the Role of Financial Frictions and the Saving Rate during Trade Liberalizations,”  (joint with Ricardo Caballero), Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 8, No. 2-3, April/May 2010, pp.  442-455. [PDF] [Slides]

• “Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies,” (joint with C. Fritz Foley), forthcoming in Barro, R. and J-W. Lee (eds.), Costs and Benefits of Regional Economic Integration, Oxford University Press, 2010. [PDF] [Slides]

• “Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective,” (joint with Ricardo Caballero), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 117, No. 4, August 2009, pp. 701-744. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets", (joint with Mihir Desai and C. Fritz Foley), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 124, No. 3, August 2009, pp. 1171–1219. [PDF] [Slides]
• “Organizations and Trade,” (joint with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 1, January 2009, pp. 43-64. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Contractual Frictions and Global Sourcing," (joint with Elhanan Helpman), in Helpman, E., D. Marin, and T. Verdier, The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 9-54. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs," (joint with Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), in Helpman, E., D. Marin, and T. Verdier, The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 311-339. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Negotiating Free Trade," (joint with Philippe Aghion and Elhanan Helpman), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 73, No. 1, September 2007, pp. 1-30. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Contracts and Technology Adoption," (joint with Daron Acemoglu and Elhanan Helpman), American Economic Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 916-943. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy," (joint with Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 31-77. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle," American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, September 2005, pp. 1054-1073. [PDF] ­[Long­er WP version] [Slides]

• "Property Rights and the International Organization of Production," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005, pp. 25-32. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Global Sourcing," (joint with Elhanan Helpman), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112, No. 3, June 2004, pp. 552-580. [PDF] [Slides]

• "Is the U.S. Aggregate Production Function Cobb-Douglas? New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution," Contributions to Macroeconomics, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2004. [PDF]

• "Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 4, November 2003, pp. 1375-1418. [PDF] ­[Long­er WP version] [Slides]

• "Factor Prices and Productivity Growth During the British Industrial Revolution," (joint with Hans-Joachim Voth), Explorations in Economic History, 40, January 2003, pp. 52-77. [PDF]
  

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