Publications (since 2000)

• Global giants and local stars: How changes in brand ownership affect competition, with Vanessa Alviarez and Thierry Mayer, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics February 2025
• The Laffer Curve for Rules of Origin, with Thierry Mayer and Marc Melitz, Journal of International Economics 150, July 2024
• Poor Substitutes? Counterfactual methods in IO and Trade  compared, with Thierry Mayer, Review of Economics and Statistics (accepted, June 2023)
• The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2021, Appendix
• How the Breadth and Depth of Import Relationships Affect the Performance of Canadian Manufacturers Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021
• Brands in Motion: How frictions shape multinational production, with Thierry Mayer, American Economic Review 2019
• Misfits in the car industry:Offshore assembly decisions at the variety level, with Thierry Mayer (Journal of the Japanese and International Economies) 2019
• Geography, Ties, and Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Citations in Mathematics with Yao (Amber) Li and Asier Minondo,   Review of Economics and Statistics 2018
• Oligopoly in International Trade: Rise, fall, and resurgence , with Barbara Spencer, Canadian Journal of Economics (2018).
• Import Sourcing of Chinese Cities: Order versus Randomness, with Ran Jing and John Ries Journal of International Economics 105 (2017), 119-129
• “The Economics of Cross-border Travel”, with Ambarish Chandra and Mariano Tappata (briefly titled “Consumer Arbitrage Across a Porous Border”), The Review of Economics and Statistics 96(4?) 2014. Online appendix
• “From Beijing to Bentonville: Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?” (with Ran Jing and Deborah Swenson), Journal of Development Economics 110, 79-92, September 2014.
• “Welfare and trade without Pareto” (with Thierry Mayer, and Mathias Thoenig), American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 104(5) 310-316, May 2014. Online appendix
• “What separates us? Sources of resistance to globalization” (with Thierry Mayer),Canadian Journal of Economics, 46(4), 1196-1231, November 2013.
• “Gravity Equations: Workhorse, Toolkit, Cookbook” (with Thierry Mayer), Elsevier’s Handbook of International Economics Vol. 4. (this version is slightly revised from the CEPR version) companion website for the chapter (with code, data, etc.).
• “Quality sorting and trade: Firm-level evidence for French wine” (with Matthieu Crozet and Thierry Mayer) The Review of Economic Studies, 79(2), 609-644, 2012.
• “Gravity, Market Potential, and Economic Development,” (with Thierry Mayer) Journal of Economic Geography 2011. Supplemental materials
• “The erosion of colonial trade linkages after independence” (with Thierry Mayer and John Ries), CEPR Discussion Paper 6951, Journal of International Economics 2010. Stata programs for method of tetrads estimation of bilateral trade equations, R code and figures comparing decolonization episodes
• “Do trade missions increase trade?” (with John Ries) CEPR Discussion Paper 7609, Canadian Journal of Economics 2010.
• “Exposure to foreign media and changes in cultural traits: Evidence from naming patterns in France” (with Thierry Mayer and Anne-Celia Disdier). Journal of International Economics March 2010.
• “Illusory Border Effects: Distance Mismeasurement Inflates Estimates of Home Bias in Trade,” (with Thierry Mayer) in Brakman, Steven and Peter van Bergeijk eds.The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications, Cambridge University Press, 2010, available now as an CEPII Working Paper
• “How remote is the offshoring threat?” (with Thierry Mayer and John Ries),  European Economic Review.
• “Detection of local interactions from the spatial pattern of names in France” (with Thierry Mayer) Journal of Regional Science 2008.
• “FDI as an Outcome of the Market for Corporate Control: Theory and Evidence” (with John Ries) Journal of International Economics 2008.
• “The Puzzling Persistence of the Distance Effect on Bilateral Trade” (with Anne-Celia Disdier), Review of Economics and Statistics 2008, also TARGET Working Paper No. 28, paper formerly titled “Exaggerated Reports of the Death of Distance: Lessons from a Meta-analysis” (we had to change the title because too many other papers were alluding to the same Mark Twain quip).
• “Regional Wage and Employment Responses to Market Potential in the EU”(with Thierry Mayer) Regional Science and Urban Economics 36(5), 573-595, September 2006.
• “Judging Japan’s FDI: The verdict from a dartboard model” (with John Ries) Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 19 (2005) 215-232.
• “Market Potential and the Location of Japanese Investment in Europe.” (with Thierry Mayer) Review of Economics and Statistics 86(4), 959-972, November, 2004.
• “Exporting and FDI as Alternative Strategies,” (with John Ries) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Autumn 2004.
• “Regionalism within Multilateralism: The WTO Trade Policy Review of Canada,” (with John Ries) The World Economy, 2004.
• “Vertical Networks and U.S. Auto Parts Exports: Is Japan Different?” (with John Ries, Barbara Spencer). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2004.
• The Empirics of Agglomeration and Trade (with Thierry Mayer) North-Holland Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics 2004.
• “Heterogeneity and the FDI versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers” (with John Ries), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2003.
• “Estimating the Knowledge Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment,” (with Bruce Blonigen and Ron Davies) American Economic Review 93(3), pp. 980-994, June 2003.
• “Offshore Production and Skill Upgrading by Japanese Manufacturing Firms.” (with John Ries) Journal of International Economics 2002.
• “Revisiting Oligopolistic Reaction: Are FDI Decisions Strategic Complements?” (with Thierry Mayer and John Ries) Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2002.
• “On the Pervasiveness of Home Market Effects” (with Thierry Mayer and John Ries) Economica 2002.
• “Increasing Returns Versus National Product Differentiation as an Explanation for the Pattern of US-Canada Trade,” (with John Ries) American Economic Review 2001.
• “Overseas Investment and Firm Exports,” Review of International Economics, (with John Ries) 2001.
• “Non-Europe: The Magnitude and Causes of Market Fragmentation in Europe,” (with Thierry Mayer) Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 136(2):285–314, 2000.