Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

• "Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs," (with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi), 2019, Econometrica, forthcoming
  • Featured in Quartz, Fraser Forum
  • This paper previously circulated under the title "Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs" (NBER Working Paper 23581). The material pertaining to search frictions is being relegated to the paper "Efficiency in Decentralized Markets" to appear below soon
• "A Guide to Estimating Matching Functions in Spatial Models," (with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi), International Journal of Industrial Organization, (Special Issue EARIE 2018), forthcoming
• "Large Firms and Within Firm Occupational Reallocation," 2018, Journal of Economic Theory, 174, 184-223
  • Online Appendix to "Large Firms and Within Firm Occupational Reallocation"
• "Firm Learning and Growth," (with Costas Arkolakis and Olga Timoshenko) 2018, Review of Economic Dynamics, 27, 146-168
• "Learning Your Comparative Advantages," 2014, Review of Economic Studies, 81(3), 1263-1295
  • Supplementary Appendix to "Learning Your Comparative Advantages"

Working Papers:

• "Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, revise and resubmit
  • Online Appendix to "Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
• “Beyond Cobb-Douglas: Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency,” (with Fabian Lange). New, substantially updated version coming soon. See here for previous version
• "Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets," (with Giulia Brancaccio, Myrto Kalouptsidi and Nicola Rosaia), coming soon
• "The Impact of Oil Prices on World Trade," (with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi)
• "Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach," (with Rafael Lopes de Melo), draft available upon request