Work in Progress

 Working Papers

“Do Deep Trade Agreements' Provisions Actually Increase -or Decrease- Trade and/or FDI?” with Jeffrey Bergstrand
CESifo Working Paper No. 11526 [Slides]
[The line: Some DTA provisions actually deter trade and enhance FDI, and viceversa!]
Revision requested at the European Economic Review

“Phantom FDI: A Structural Gravity Analysis Using MREID” with Saad Ahmad, Jeffrey Bergstrand, and Heather Wickramarachi
USITC Economics Working Paper 2025-08-C
[PDF] [Slides] [Dataset (USITC gravity portal)]
[The line: We identify Phantom FDI using strucutrual Gravity on the MREID dataset]

“Mind the gaps: Gender complementarities in migration and FDI” with Carril-Caccia, F., & Cuadros, A.
Working Papers 2402, Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia
[The line: Gender migration matters, we calculate the male-female elasticity of substitution for OECD countries! ] [pdf] [Slides]

“Informal Economy and Trade in the Agricultural Sector” with Malik, S., Oberhofer, H.
SSRN Working Paper (2026)
[The line: Informal economy shapes trade patterns in the agricultural sector.] [SSRN]

 Work in Pampers

“Globalization of Marriage and Trade” with Dziadula, E.
Work in progress. Presented at SEA: Washington, DC, November 2024.
[The line: We study how cross-border marriages affect bilateral trade using a structural model with heterogeneous migrant households and non-homothetic preferences, tested with IPUMS International (1994–2019)]

“Economic Complexity and Trade” by Paniagua, J.
Work in Progress.
[The line: I study how economic complexity relates to countries’ trade patterns.] [Slides]