Papers
"Linguistic Fractionalization, Trade, and Welfare" , with Tamara Gurevich, Peter Herman & Yoto Yotov, Economic Inquiry , 1- 31. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70003, 2025."A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries" , with Tamara Gurevich, Peter Herman & Yoto Yotov, Scientific Data - Nature "Multinationals' Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens" , with S. Laffitte. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy , 14(4), 2022."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."Somatic Distance, Trust and Trade" , with J. Melitz. Review of International Economics , 27(3): 786-802, 2019."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."Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption" , with M. Cervellati & A. Naghavi. Journal of Economic Growth , 23(2): 145-173, 2018."Native Language and Acquired Language as Determinants of Product-level Trade" , with P. Egger. The World Economy , 41(7): 1833-1846, 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."Foreign Language Learning and Trade" , with V. Ginsburgh & J. Melitz. Review of International Economics , 25(2): 320-361, 2017. "Languages and International Trade" , with Peter Egger. Victor Ginsburgh & Shlomo Weber eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Languages , Vol. 1, Chapter 9, 2016.
"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
"Native Language, Spoken Language, Translation and Trade" , with Jacques Melitz. Journal of International Economics , 93(2): 351-363, 2014. STATA data & codes .
"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.
"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. "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
"The Real Effects of Tax Havens" , with Annette Alstadsæter, Ronald B. Davies, and Mathieu Parenti. Research Handbook on the Economics of Tax Havens , Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. Publisher Link .
"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.
"Mondialisation et Technologie: Créatrices ou Destructrices d'emploi?" , with A. Reshef. L'Économie Mondiale , La Découverte, 2018.
"Commerce de biens intermédiaires et compétitivité" , with L. Fontagné. Rapport du Sénat , 2011.
"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.
"FDI in Intangible Assets", Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy , 2009.
Special Issues
"Introduction to the special issue on: Gravity at sixty" , with Jeffrey Bergstrand & Peter Egger,European Economic Review , 166: 104749, 2024.
"Immigration in OECD Countries: Introduction" , with Hillel Rapoport, European Economic Review , 118: 270-273, 2019.
"Special Issue on the Economics of Common Language and Culture" , with Peter Egger, The World Economy , 41(7): 1748-1749, 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.