Ongoing Research

Global Value Chains, Productivity, and Convergence

Global Value Chains, Robotization, and the Labor Share

Trade Policy Uncertainty, Preferential Trade Agreements, and the Margins of International Trade

Working Papers

‘Modeling the Impact of Carbon Border Policies on Emissions, Global Value Chains, and Welfare’, (with Joseph Francois), ADB Working Paper no. 792, 2025.

Do Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements Reduce Emissions Traded in Global Value Chains?‘ (with Maisha Fairuz), ADB Working Paper no. 755, 2025.

‘Formal-Informal Supply Chain Linkages and Firm Productivity in Sub–Saharan Africa: The Role of Human Capital‘, (with Robert Djidonou and Nanditha Mathew), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2025/006, UNU-MERIT, 2025.

‘The Impact of Automation on Inequality across Europe’, (with Mary Kaltenberg), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2020/009, UNU-MERIT, 2025.

‘Productive Efficiency, Technological Change and Catch-Up within Africa’, (with Emmanuel Mensah and Solomon Owusu), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2020/033, UNU-MERIT, 2020.

‘What is the Potential of Natural Resource based Industrialisation in Latin America? An Input-Output Analysis of the Extractive Sectors’, (with Beatriz Calzada Olvera), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2018-015, UNU-MERIT, 2018.

‘Migration and FDI Flows’, (with Michael Landesmann and Isilda Mara), wiiw Working Paper no. 141, wiiw, March 2018.

‘On the Development and Impact of Commodity Prices and Cycles’, (with Danilo Sartorello Spinola and Bart Verspagen), UNIDO ISID Working Paper no. 8, UNIDO, 2018.

‘Development in Manufacturing Unit Values across Countries’, (with Danilo Sartorello Spinola and Bart Verspagen), UNIDO ISID Working Paper no. 7, UNIDO, 2018.

‘Structural Change and the Ability to Sustain Growth’, (with Ibrahima Kaby and Adam Szirmai), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2015-48, UNU-MERIT, 2015.

‘Global Value Chains in Africa’, (with Florian Kaulich and Robert Stehrer), UNU-MERIT Working Paper no 2015-24, UNU-MERIT, 2015.

‘Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Technology Transfer: A Survey’, (with Anja Breitwieser), wiiw Working Paper no. 88, wiiw, June 2012.

‘On the Volume and Variety of Intra-Bloc Trade in an Expanded European Union’, wiiw Working Paper no. 87, wiiw, June 2012.