Research Interests
International Trade and its intersection with Development, Labor, and Public Economics.
Research Affiliations
Baylor University Global Ethic Research Group
Working Papers
“New evidence on WTO membership after the Uruguay Round: an analysis at the sectoral level.” with Magnus dos Reis and André Filipe Zago de Azevedo, Open Economies Review, accepted.
Work in Progress
“Premature deindustrialization: An analysis of the Brazilian case”
Selected Publications
“The Influence of International Trade on Labour Productivity in Services: The case of Brazil in the 1990s.” with John Ssozi and H. Stephen Gardner, Review of Development Economics, forthcoming, Open Access.
“Connect and Protect: The Role of Trade, Technology, and Labor Policies on Informality,” with Jennifer P. Poole and Rita K. Almeida, The Journal of Development Studies, 58 (7), 2022, 1416–1435. Open Access.
“The Effects of Chinese Imports on Female Workers in the Brazilian Manufacturing Sector,” with John Ssozi, The Journal of Development Studies, 57(5), 2021, 807–823.
“The Effects of Exporting on Wages: An Evaluation Using the 1999 Brazilian Exchange Rate Devaluation” with Bruno C. Araujo, Journal of Development Economics, 111, November 2014, 1–16.
“The impacts of trade liberalization on informal labor markets: an evaluation of the Brazilian case“, Journal of International Economics, 92(2), 2014, 330–348.
“Trade Liberalization and Industry Wage Premium: The Missing Role of Productivity“, Applied Economics, 46(4), 2014, 408–419.
“Inter-industry Productivity Spillovers: An Analysis Using the 1989–1998 Brazilian Trade Liberalization“, The Journal of Development Studies, 50(9), 2014, 1263–1276.
“The welfare impacts of a revenue-neutral switch from tariffs to VAT with intermediate inputs and VAT threshold“, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, forthcoming.
“Estimating the elasticity of intertemporal substitution: Is the aggregate financial return free from the weak instrument problem?” with Fabio Gomes, Journal of Macroeconomics, 36C, 2013, 63–75.
“Tariffs Versus VAT in the Presence of Heterogeneous Firms” with Ron Davies, International Tax and Public Finance, 18(5), October 2011, 533–554.