My research interests are broadly in international trade, foreign direct investment, and firm entrepreneurship and innovation. I am interested in the impacts of policy reforms, government programs and technology on international trade, FDI and firms. I mostly work with firm-level balance sheet data, transaction-level customs trade data, and bilateral trade and FDI data.
Published Papers
- A simple method to quantify the ex-ante effects of "deep" trade liberalization and "hard" trade protection (with Mario Larch and Yoto V. Yotov), 2023, Journal of Comparative Economics (link). (Also circulated as CESifo Working Paper Series no. 9224, World Bank Policy Working Paper Series no. 9791)
- Effects of Regulatory Burden and Corruption on Firm Performance: Evidence from Moldova (with Dea Tusha), 2023, Review of Development Economics (link).
- Risk Management in Border Inspection (with Russell Hillberry and Bilgehan Karabayz), 2022, Journal of Development Economics (link). (Also circulated as World Bank Policy Working Paper Series no. 9438)
- Foreign Firm Characteristics, Labour Market Restrictions and FDI Spillovers: Evidence from Moldova (with Dea Tusha), 2022. World Economy (link)
- Spillovers from high growth firms: Evidence from Hungary (with Francesca de Nicola and Balázs Muraközy), 2019, Small Business Economics (link). (Also circulated as World Bank Policy Working Paper Series no. 8642)
Working Papers
International Trade
- Foreign Sourcing and FDI Spillovers (with Masha Brussevich), 2022
- International Sourcing and Firm Learning: Evidence from Serbian Firms (with Mason Reasner), 2021, World Bank Policy Working Paper Series no. 9790 (submitted)
- Foreign banks and trade: Bridging the information gap? (with Francesca de Nicola), 2017, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series no. 7967.
- Firms’ export decisions: Demand trumps financial shocks (with Francesca de Nicola), 2017, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series no. 7953.
- Disaggregating the impact of the internet on international trade (with Alberto Osnago), 2016, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series no. 7785.
- Structural Estimation of a Flexible Translog Gravity Model, 2012, University of Melbourne Department of Economics Working Paper Series no. 1164.
Firm Performance and Productivity
- Business Environment and Firm Performance in European Lagging Regions (with Thomas Farole, Issam Hallak and Peter Harasztos), 2017, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series no. 8281.
- The Effect of Local Governance on Firm Productivity and Resource Allocation: Evidence from Vietnam (with Trang Tran), 2016, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series no. 8118.
Work in Progress
- The Negative and Persistent Effect of the Iron Curtain on European Trade