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Working Papers

2009

1. Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns: The Roles of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance
   Agricultural Distortions Working Paper, World Bank
2. Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
3. Search and Offshoring in the Presence of "Animal Spirits"
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
4. The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns: A Reexamination of the Evidence
   Economics Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance

2008

5. Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?
   Development Working Papers, Centro Studi Luca d\'Agliano, University of Milano

2007

6. Indian manufacturing: a slow sector in a rapidly growing economy
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (2009)
7. International Trade and Unemployment: Theory and Cross-National Evidence
   Working Papers, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in Journal of International Economics (2009)
8. Offshoring and Unemployment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Working Papers, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics (2007) View citations
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2007) View citations
9. Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2008)

2006

10. Inequality, Nonhomothetic Preferences, And Trade: A Gravity Approach
    Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of Missouri View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Southern Economic Journal (2008)

2005

11. Y2K and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Working Papers, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics (2005) View citations

2004

12. Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Reforms with Majority Voting
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2008)

2003

13. Inequality and Trade
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics (2005)
14. Labor Versus Capital in Trade-Policy Determination: The Role of General-Interest and Special-Interest Politics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
15. Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy: An Interest-Group Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
16. Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Economics Study Area Working Papers, East-West Center, Economics Study Area (2003) View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2007)

2002

17. Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2005)

2001

18. Trade Liberalization, Labor Markets and Imperfect Competition
    Economics Study Area Working Papers, East-West Center, Economics Study Area View citations

1999

19. A Theory of Unilateralism and Reciprocity in Trade Policy
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations
20. Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

Undated

21. Trade Liberalization, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence From India
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (1998)

Journal Articles

2009

1. Indian manufacturing: A slow sector in a rapidly growing economy
   Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2009, 18, (1), 205-205
   Also in Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2008, 17, (4), 525-559 (2008) View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)
2. International trade and unemployment: Theory and cross-national evidence
   Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78, (1), 32-44 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)
3. Review of Bhagwati, Jagdish (2008), Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade, Oxford University Press
   International Review of Economics & Finance, 2009, 18, (4), 700-701

2008

4. Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy
   Economic Journal, 2008, 118, (531), 1285-1314 View citations
5. Inequality, Nonhomothetic Preferences, and Trade: A Gravity Approach
   Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 74, (3), 747-774 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)
6. Reciprocated unilateralism in trade reforms with majority voting
   Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 85, (1-2), 81-93
   See also Working Paper (2004)
7. THE ECONOMICS OF OFFSHORING: THEORY AND EVIDENCE WITH APPLICATIONS TO ASIA
   The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2008, 53, (03), 357-369
8. Temporary shocks and offshoring: The role of external economies and firm heterogeneity
   Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 87, (1), 76-84 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2007

9. Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations, and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, (3), 466-481
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2006

10. Can we obtain realistic parameter estimates for the `protection for sale' model?
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2006, 39, (1), 187-210 View citations
11. Labor versus capital in trade-policy: The role of ideology and inequality
    Journal of International Economics, 2006, 69, (2), 310-320 View citations

2005

12. Inequality and trade
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38, (4), 1253-1271 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2003)
13. Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87, (1), 59-72 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)
14. Reciprocated unilateralism in trade policy
    Journal of International Economics, 2005, 65, (2), 461-487 View citations

2004

15. Economic (dis)integration in the presence of evolutionary learning
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2004, 14, (4), 463-481
16. Protection versus Promotion: An Empirical Investigation
    Economics and Politics, 2004, 16, (2), 147-162 View citations

2002

17. "Protection For Sale" In A Developing Country: Democracy Vs. Dictatorship
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, 84, (3), 497-508 View citations
18. Endogenous political organization and the value of trade agreements
    Journal of International Economics, 2002, 57, (2), 473-485 View citations
19. Endogenous trade policy through majority voting: an empirical investigation
    Journal of International Economics, 2002, 58, (1), 107-133 View citations
20. Infrastructure, returns to scale and sovereign debt
    Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2002, 11, (3), 267-278

2001

21. Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture versus Manufacturing
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2001, 49, (2), 403-22 View citations
22. Trade liberalization and labor demand elasticities: evidence from Turkey
    Journal of International Economics, 2001, 55, (2), 391-409 View citations

2000

23. On the Endogenous Choice between Protection and Promotion
    Economics and Politics, 2000, 12, (1), 33-51

1999

24. Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Protection: A Long-Run Model of Trade Policy Determination
    American Economic Review, 1999, 89, (5), 1116-1134 View citations
25. Multiple equilibria, coordination, and transitional growth
    Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 60, (2), 297-316 View citations

1998

26. Trade liberalization, market discipline and productivity growth: new evidence from India
    Journal of Development Economics, 1998, 56, (2), 447-462 View citations
    See also Working Paper