Corporate taxation and tax avoidance

Peer-reviewed articles

• "Corporate Tax Avoidance and Sales: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications", with Julien Martin & Mathieu Parenti. Management Science, 2025.
• "Multinationals' Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens", with S. Laffitte. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(4), 2022.
• "Knocking on Tax Haven's Door: Multinational Firms and Transfer Pricing", with R.B. Davies, J. Martin & M. Parenti. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(1): 120-134, 2018.

Books, chapters & other work

• "The Real Effects of Tax Havens", with Annette Alstadsæter, Ronald B. Davies & Mathieu Parenti. Research Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. Publisher Link.
• "FDI in Intangible Assets", Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, 2009.

Firms, technology and globalization

Peer-reviewed articles

• "The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms", with J. Harrigan & A. Reshef. Research Policy, 50(7): 104008, 2021.
• "Cross-Border M&A Activity and Wage Dynamics", with G. Orefice & N. Sly. ILR Review, 74(1): 31-162, 2021.
• "Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption", with M. Cervellati & A. Naghavi. Journal of Economic Growth, 23(2): 145-173, 2018.
• "Immigration and the Gender Wage Gap", with A. Edo. European Economic Review, 92(2): 196-214, 2017.
• "Corruption for Sales", with M. Couttenier. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(1): 56-66, 2017.
• "The Few Leading The Many: Foreign Affiliates and Business Cycle Comovement", with Jörn Kleinert & Julien Martin. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 7(4): 134-159, 2015.
• "International Sourcing, Technological Complexity, and Intellectual Property Rights Protection", with Alireza Naghavi & Julia Spies. Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(3): 881-902, 2015.
• "Selective Migration Policies and Wages Inequality", with Anthony Edo. Review of International Economics, 23(1): 160-187, 2015.
• "Cherries for Sales: The Incidence and Timing of Cross-Border M&A", with Bruce Blonigen, Lionel Fontagné & Nicholas Sly. Journal of International Economics, 94(2): 341-357, 2014.
• "Productivity, Relationship-Specific Inputs and the Sourcing Modes of Multinationals", with Fabrice Defever. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 94: 345-357, 2013. Best Paper at the European Trade Study Group Conference, Licos Prize.
• "Production versus Distribution Oriented FDI", with Jörn Kleinert. Review of World Economics, 149(3): 423-442, 2013.
• "Cross-Border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data", with Markus Kelle, Horst Raff & Jörn Kleinert. The World Economy, 36(11): 1373-1392, 2013.
• "Revisiting the Trade-Migration Nexus: Evidence from New OECD Data", with Gabriel Felbermayr. World Development, 40(5): 928-937, 2012.
• "Importations de biens intermédiaires et choix organisationnel des firmes multinationales françaises", with Fabrice Defever. Économie et Statistique, No. 435/436: 169-184, 2010.
• "Gravity for FDI", with Jörn Kleinert. Review of International Economics, 18(1): 1-13, 2010. Lead article.
• "Spillovers from Multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic firms: Evidence from Hungary", with Gábor Békés & Jörn Kleinert. World Economy, 32(10): 1408-1433, 2009.
• "Openness and Growth: The Long Shadow of the Berlin Wall", with Claudia Buch. Journal of Macroeconomics, 31(3): 409-422, 2009.
• "Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links Between Migration and German FDI", with Claudia Buch & Jörn Kleinert. European Economic Review, 50(8): 2017-2036, 2006.
• "Determinants and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from German Firm-Level Data", with Claudia Buch, Jörn Kleinert & Alexander Lipponer. Economic Policy, 20(41): 52-110, 2005.
• "Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern European Countries: A Dynamic Panel Analysis", with Kai Carstensen. Journal of Comparative Economics, 32(1): 3-22, 2004. Lead article.
• "The Distance Puzzle: On the Interpretation of the Distance Coefficient in Gravity Equations", with Claudia Buch & Jörn Kleinert. Economics Letters, 83(3): 293-298, 2004.
• "Localisation des firmes multinationales dans les pays de l'Est". Économie et Prévision, 163, 2004/2, 2004.
• "Economic Integration and FDI in Transition Economies: What Can We Learn from German Data?", with Claudia Buch. DIW: Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 72(4): 1-17, 2003.

Books, chapters & other work

• "Introduction to the special issue on: Gravity at Sixty", with Jeffrey Bergstrand & Peter Egger. European Economic Review, 166: 104749, 2024.
• "Automation, Techies, and Labor Market Restructuring", with Ariell Reshef. Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition: Promoting Resilience in a World in Flux, 2024, p.15.
• "La Polarisation de l'emploi en France, ce qui s'est aggravé depuis la crise de 2008", with A. Reshef. CEPREMAP Opuscule, 2019.
• "Immigration in OECD Countries: Introduction", with Hillel Rapoport. European Economic Review, 118: 270-273, 2019.
• "Mondialisation et Technologie: Créatrices ou Destructrices d'emploi?", with A. Reshef. L'Économie Mondiale, La Découverte, 2018.
• "L'impact de la mondialisation et de la technologie sur les marchés du travail locaux", Comments on Charnoz & Orand and Jennequin et al. — Special issue on "Regions and Territories", Economics and Statistics, 497-498, 2017.
• "Hollowing out of the Japanese Economy: A Long Term Perspective", with Mickael Ryan. In The Factory-Free Economy: Outsourcing, Servitization, and the Future of Industry, Lionel Fontagné & Ann Harrison (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2017.
• "Commerce de biens intermédiaires et compétitivité", with L. Fontagné. Rapport du Sénat, 2011.

Languages, networks and trade

Peer-reviewed articles

• "Linguistic Fractionalization, Trade, and Welfare", with Tamara Gurevich, Peter Herman & Yoto Yotov. Economic Inquiry, 2025.
• "A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries", with Tamara Gurevich, Peter Herman & Yoto Yotov. Scientific Data — Nature, (2025) 12:542.
• "Somatic Distance, Trust and Trade", with J. Melitz. Review of International Economics, 27(3): 786-802, 2019.
• "Native Language and Acquired Language as Determinants of Product-level Trade", with P. Egger. The World Economy, 41(7): 1833-1846, 2018.
• "Foreign Language Learning and Trade", with V. Ginsburgh & J. Melitz. Review of International Economics, 25(2): 320-361, 2017.
• "Native Language, Spoken Language, Translation and Trade", with Jacques Melitz. Journal of International Economics, 93(2): 351-363, 2014. STATA data & codes.
• "Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence", with Gabriel Felbermayr & Benjamin Jung. Annales of Economics and Statistics, No. 97/98: 41-70, 2011.
• "Cultural Proximity and Trade", with Gabriel Felbermayr. European Economic Review, 54(2): 279-293, 2010. Reprinted in Culture and Economic Growth, edited by Enrico Spolaore, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publisher, Chapter 17, 2014.

Books, chapters & other work

• "Common Spoken Languages and International Trade", with Peter Egger. Victor Ginsburgh & Shlomo Weber eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Languages, Vol. 2, Chapter 11, 2025. Revised and updated version of our chapter in the first 2016 edition.
• "Special Issue on the Economics of Common Language and Culture", with Peter Egger. The World Economy, 41(7): 1748-1749, 2018.
• "Languages and International Trade", with Peter Egger. Victor Ginsburgh & Shlomo Weber eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Languages, Vol. 1, Chapter 9, 2016.

Peer-reviewed articles

Books, chapters & other work