Working Papers
European Immigrants and the Rise of the United States to the Technological Frontier (with Lee, Peters)
Optimal City Structure (with Allen, Li). PRELIMINARY. First Version: 07/15
Submitted Papers or Under Revision
A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Economic Activity (with Ai, Yang). New 4/25.
Combinatorial Discrete Choice: Theory and Application to Multinational Production (with Eckert, Shi). 5/25. Online Appendix. Older WP
Clean Growth (with Walsh). More
Production Network Formation, Trade, and Welfare (with Hunneus, Miyauchi). 12/25.
General Equilibrium Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement (with Adao, Esposito, conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal, Macro). 9/25. More
A Multivariate Distribution with Pareto Tails and Pareto Maxima (with Rodriguez-Clare, Jiun-Hua Su, conditionally accepted, Economic Theory). 5/25.
Publications
From Heterogeneous Firms to Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities: The Aggregate Implications of Firm Export Decisions (with Adao, Ganapati) accepted, Journal of Political Economy
Quantitative Regional Economics (with Allen) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, 2025, 1-72.
The Economic Impacts of Clean Energy (with Walsh) Brookings Papers for Economic Activity
Optimizing Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (with Gillingham, Yoo) AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2025, 115, 563–567 More
The impact of workplace heat and cold on work time loss (with Ioannou et al) Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2025, 67 (6): 393-399.
On the Equilibrium Properties of Spatial Models (with Allen, Li) American Economic Review Insights, 2024, 6 (4).
Economic Activity Across Space: A Supply and Demand Approach (with Allen) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (2), p.3-28 More
The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements (with Allen), Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89(6), 2911-2957.
Firm Dynamics and Trade (with Alessandria, Ruhl) Annual Review of Economics, 2021, 13, 253-280.
The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-Level Analysis (with Muendler, Ganapati), American Economic Journal Macro 2021, 13(4), pp. 182-245). More
Universal Gravity (with Allen, Takahashi) Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(2), 393-433. More
The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade (with Costinot, Donaldson, Rodriguez-Clare), Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(1), 46-80. More
Innovation and Production in the Global Economy (with Ramondo, Rodriguez-Clare, Yeaple), American Economic Review, 2018, 108(8), 2128-73, More
Firm Learning and Growth (with Papageorgiou, Timoshenko), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 146-168.
Modern Spatial Economics, A Primer (with Allen), World Trade Evolution, Edited By Lili Yan Ing, Miaojie Yu.
A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131(1), 89-155. More
Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy (with Allen) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129(3), More
New Trade Models, Same Old Gains? (with Costinot, Rodriguez-Clare), American Economic Review, 2012, 102(1), 94-130. More
Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade, Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (6), 1151-1199. More
Exporters and Their Products: A Collection of Empirical Regularities (with Muendler), CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59(2), 223-248.
Vertical Specialization and International Business Cycles Synchronization (with Ramanarayanan), Scandinavian J. of Economics, Sp. Issue on Heterogeneity & Trade, 2009,111(4),665-680. More
Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade (with Klenow, Demidova, Rodriguez-Clare), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2008, 98 (4), 444-450. More