Working Papers

Optimal Dual-Regime Business Tax Systems, with Joel Slemrod, Michael Stimmelmayr, John Wilson and Peter Choi

Revisions requested, Journal of the European Economic Association

Preferential Trade Agreements and Non-tariff Measures, with David Kuenzel

Revisions requested, European Economic Review

The Simple Analytics of Trade Creation, Diversion and Reversion, with Alan Deardorff

Revisions requested, International Economic Journal

Global Value Chains Drive Disparities in the Health Consequences of Shipping, with Rick Klotz

Academic Publications

Domestic Taxes and International Trade

Forthcoming in Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade, Devashish Mitra and Priyaranjan Jha, editors

Strategic Cyberwarfare, with Erik Lillethun

Economic Inquiry, 64:1 (January, 2026), 221-244 

Coverage: The Debrief

Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Lost Quota Rents Induced by H-1B Policy, with Chad Sparber

Journal of International Economics, 150 (July 2024), 103932

Coverage: The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post

An Anatomy of Nepal's Remarkable Export Decline: A Note

Journal of Asian Economics, 89 (December 2023), 101663

Tax Losses and Ex-Ante Offshore Transfer of Intellectual Property, with Joel Slemrod and Michael Stimmelmayr

Journal of Public Economics, 226 (October 2023), 104967

Trade Barriers and CO2, with Rick Klotz

Journal of International Economics, 141 (March 2023), 103726

Coverage: Nature Climate Change

Preferential Trade Agreements and MFN Tariffs: Global Evidence, with David Kuenzel

European Economic Review, 138 (September 2021), 103850

Exempted Sectors in Free Trade Agreements, with Alan Deardorff

Canadian Journal of Economics, 54:1 (February 2021), 284-310

Does the VAT Tax Exports?

Economic Inquiry, 58:1 (January 2020), 225-240

Incentives to Tax Foreign Investors

International Tax and Public Finance, 26:2 (April 2019), 257-281

Optimal Tariffs with Inframarginal Exporters

Review of International Economics, 26:4 (September 2018), 768-783

Taxing and Subsidizing Foreign Investors

FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 73:4 (December 2017), 402-423

Policy Contributions

Real Exchange Rates, Trade Policy, and Exports in Nepal (Ch. 3), in Nepal Country Economic Memorandum: Unlocking Nepal's Growth Potential, World Bank (March 2025)

Coverage:  Kathmandu Post; The Rising Nepal

Here's the Solution to Trump World's 'Civil War' over H-1B Visas, with Chad Sparber

Washington Post (January 6, 2025)

Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Search‐​Cost Externalities Induced by H-1B Policy, with Chad Sparber

Cato Institute Research Briefs in Economic Policy (January 2021), 246 

Recent Teaching

ECON 450: Seminar in International Economics

ECON 349: Topics in International Trade

ECON 251: Intermediate Microeconomics