Short Bio
I
am an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. My research focuses on U.S. firms
engaged in or affected by international trade.
Prior to beginning my graduate studies, I worked in the
private sector, advising domestic and foreign firms involved
in antidumping and safeguard investigations.
This is a personal website. Any results or conclusions
in the research presented on this website are my own and do
not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve
System.
You can also visit my official
website and my Google
Scholar page.
Employment
2016 - Present Principal Economist,
Federal Reserve Board of
Governors
2014 - 2016 Senior Economist,
Federal Reserve Board of
Governors
2011 - 2014 Economist,
Federal Reserve Board of
Governors
2009 - 2011 Economist,
Center for Economic Studies,
U.S. Census Bureau
2001 - 2003
Economic Analyst,
Georgetown
Economic Services, LLC
Affiliations
Member,
Conference on
Research in Income and Wealth
Special Sworn Status Researcher,
U.S. Census Bureau
Education
2009 Ph.D., Economics, Georgetown University
2005 M.A., Economics, Georgetown University
2001 B.A., Economics, International Affairs, The
George Washington University
Publications
The
Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment.
American Economic Review 106(7), pp. 1632-1662 (July
2016). This is a revised version of NBER Working Paper (
WP18655).
Published
version and appendix. Joint with
Peter Schott.
- Press coverage of this article: Washington
Post
(Wonkblog), 01/06/2013; Wall
Street
Journal (China Realtime Report), 01/07/2013; New
York
Times (Economix), 01/07/2013; Wall
Street
Journal (Marketwatch), 01/08/2013; International
Herald Tribune, 01/09/2013; Wall
Street
Journal (Marketwatch), 01/14/2013; Washington
Post (Wonkblog), 06/26/2014; Washington
Post, 03/12/2015; Wall
Street Journal, 04/29/2015; Bloomberg,
06/18/2015; New
York Times, 07/08/2015; Vox,
07/08/2016; Los
Angeles Times, 08/11/2016; Wall
Street Journal, 08/11/2016; The
Economist, 10/01/2016.
- Slides for this paper are available here.
Antidumping Duties and
Plant-Level Restructuring,
Review of Industrial
Organization 42 (4), pp. 435-447 (June 2013).
Invited Submission. The published version is available
here.
Are
All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical
Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and
Quotas,
Journal of
International Economics 89 (2), pp. 369-378 (March
2013). NBER Working Paper (
WP16391).
Joint with
Bruce
Blonigen,
Benjamin
Liebman and
Wesley
Wilson. The published version is available
here.
A Concordance
Between U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product
Classes and Industries,
Journal
of Economic and Social Measurement, 37(1-2), pp. 61-96
(2012). NBER Working Paper (
WP15548).
Joint with
Peter
Schott.
Data Appendix.
Concording U.S.
Harmonized System Codes Over Time, Journal of Official Statistics, 28 (1), pp.
53-68 (March 2012). NBER Working Paper (
WP14837).
Joint with
Peter
Schott.
Data
Appendix.
Plant-Level Responses
to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers, Journal of International
Economics,
85 (2), pp.
222-233 (November 2011). This paper was briefly circulated
under the title: "Spare the Rod, Spoil the Firm? A Plant-Level
Analysis of the Effects of Temporary Protection." The
published version is available
here.
Working Papers
Trade
Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S. Counties.
2016. Joint with
Peter Schott.
NBER Working Paper (
WP22849).
Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2016-094.
Evidence
for the Effects of Mergers on Market Power and Efficiency.
2016. Joint with
Bruce Blonigen.
NBER Working Paper (
WP22750).
Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2016-082.
Did Trade Liberalization
with China Influence U.S. Elections? 2017. Joint
with Yi Che, Yi Lu, Peter Schott and Zhigang Tao. NBER
Working Paper (
WP22178).
Trade Policy and the Structure
of Supply Chains. 2015. Joint with
Sebastian
Heise,
Georg
Schaur and
Peter Schott.
Trade
Liberalization and International Sourcing of Inputs. 2012.
Applied Research
Making Sense of Africa's
Infrastructure Endowment: A Benchmarking Approach (April 2009), World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper (
WBPS4912)
. Joint with Vivien
Foster and Tito Yepes.
Productive
Infrastructure and Logistics Services for Competitiveness
(October 2006).
Joint with Tito Yepes. Chapter in
Infrastructure Service Provision
in El Salvador: Fighting Poverty, Resuming Growth.
Costa
Rica's
Infrastructure: Contributor or Bottleneck to Growth? (September 2006).
Joint with Tito Yepes. Chapter in
Costa Rica Country Economic
Memorandum: The Challenges for Sustained Growth.
Presentations by Paper
"Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S.
Counties" - Washington International Trade Group (1/21/2016);
The World Bank (02/23/2016); U.S. Centers for Disease Control
(02/25/2016); ERWIT Copenhagen (06/01/2016); College of William
and Mary (09/16/2016); Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
(02/24/2017); Tulane University (03/10/2017); Dartmouth College
(05/23/2017)
"Trade Policy and the Structure of Supply Chains" - University
of Oregon (10/13/2015); Inter American Development Bank
(06/17/2016)
"Evidence for the Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Market
Power and Efficiency" - Stanford RDC Conference (9/18/2015);
Midwest Economic Association (04/02/2016); IIOC (04/16/2016);
Aarhus University (11/29/2016); U.S. Department of Justice
(05/16/2017)
"The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing
Employment" - Georgetown University (10/24/2014); Renmin
University of China (04/25/2014); Shanghai University of Finance
and Economics (04/22/2014); Syracuse University (12/2/2013);
University of Richmond (11/18/2013); Empirical Investigations in
International Trade, University of Virginia (10/19/2013);
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (09/18/2013); NBER
Summer Institute - International Trade and Investment
(07/11/2013); CESifo Conference on the Economics of Firm
Exporting (04/26/2013); University of Hong Kong (02/27/2013);
U.S. International Trade Commission (02/21/2013); The George
Washington University (02/12/2013); Washington, DC International
Trade Research Group (01/31/2013); Southern Economic Association
(11/21/2011); Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Office of
the President (07/07/2011); Georgetown Center for Economic
Research (06/02/2011); Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
(05/13/2011); Advances in International Trade: Trade Empirics
(11/19/2010); Center for Economic Studies (10/21/2010).
"Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical
Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects for Tariffs and
Quotas" - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (04/27/2012);
University of Wisconsin Whitewater (04/25/2012); University of
Virginia (08/31/2011); Southern Economic Association Meetings
(11/21/2010); Vassar College (10/25/10); Midwest International
Trade and Theory Meetings (09/17/2010); Center for Economic
Studies (04/01/2010).
"Plant-Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S.
Manufacturers" - Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
(04/24/2014); Federal Reserve Board of Governors (05/27/2011);
Midwest Economic Association (03/21/2010); Comparative Analysis
of Enterprise Data Meetings (10/02/2009); Econometric Society
North American Summer Meetings (06/04/2009); Midwest
International Economics Group (05/01/2009); George Washington
University/World Bank Antidumping Conference (04/09/2009);
Georgetown University (10/20/2008); Center for Economic Studies
(10/02/2008).
Trade Liberalization and International Sourcing of Inputs -
Southern Economic Association (11/16/2012).