Working Papers

Under Review

• Dollar Store Expansion, Food Retail Competition, and Rural Employment, with Rigoberto Lopez and Kenan Marchesi, Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, revised & resubmitted. [Paper]

• An Empirical Assessment of Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Food Environment Exposure and Retail Market Concentration, with Qianxia Jiang, Debarchana Ghosh and Kristen Cooksey Stowers, Public Health Nutrition, revised & resubmitted. [Paper]

• The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade, with Colin A. Carter, Journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, revise & resubmit, also published as NBER Working Paper w27147. [Paper]

• The Health Impact of Ragweed Allergies in Sweden, Journal of Health Economics, revise & resubmit. [Paper]

• Pre-Trends and Trade Effects of Temporary Trade Barriers, with Armen Khederlarian, FREIT Working Paper 1781, under review. [Paper]

• Global Shipping Container Disruptions and U.S. Agricultural Exports, with Colin A. Carter and Xiting Zhuang, IATRC Working Paper 22-01, under review. [Paper]

• The War for Grain: How the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Impacted the Grain Futures Market, with Yasin Yildirim, under review. [Paper]

• Rising Protectionism and Foreign Direct Investment, with Dongin Kim, under review. [Paper]

• Agricultural Commodity Markets in the Wake of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, with Raghav Goyal, under review. [Paper]

• The Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment Revisited, with Dongin Kim, under review. [Paper]

• U.S. Agricultural Exports and the 2022 Mississippi River Drought, with Xiting Zhuang, under review. [Paper]

• The Corporatization of Veterinary Medicine: An Empirical Analysis of Its Impact on Independent Practices, under review. [Paper]

• Happy Pills? Mental Health Effects of the Dramatic Increase in Antidepressant Use, with Giuliano Masiero, Fabrizio Mazzonna, under review, also published as IZA Working Paper 13727. [Paper]

• Global Container Shipping Disruptions, Pop-Up Ports, and U.S. Agricultural Exports, with Xiting Zhuang, under review. [Paper]

• The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on Foreign Trade of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with Colin A. Carter, under review. [Paper]

Selected Work in Progress

• Preferential Trading in Agriculture: New Insights from a Structural Gravity Analysis and Machine Learning, with Dongin Kim. [Paper]

• Exchange Rate Risk and Global Food Supply Chains, NBER Working Paper w29164. [Paper]

• Similarity in Demand Structures and Foreign Direct Investment in the Food and Beverage Industry, with Dongin Kim.  [Paper]

• Measuring the Impact of Sunset Reviews on Agricultural and Food Trade, with Sijia Chen. [Paper]

• Trade Diversion and the Initiation Effect: A Case Study of U.S. Trade Remedies in Agriculture, with Colin A. Carter, NBER Working Paper w24745. [Paper]

• The Impact of Trade Disputes on U.S. Agriculture: A Data-Driven Approach for Counterfactual Measurement, with Armen Khederlarian. [Paper]

• Leveraging Machine Learning to Assess the Impact and Drivers of Agricultural Trade Promoting Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements, with Stepan Gordeev, Jeremy Jelliffe and Dongin Kim. [Paper]

• Did Grain Futures Prices Overreact to the Russia-Ukraine War?, with Colin A. Carter. [Paper]