International Trade and Spatial Economics
Our group’s research covers topics related to international trade, globalisation, and economic geography. These include, among others: trade policy, political economy of trade, multinational corporations, international corporate taxation, global and domestic supply chains, migration, trade and the environment, globalisation and growth.
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Academics
DPHIL Students
Selected Publications
Technical Change, Jobs and Wages in the Global Economy
Lobbying for Globalisation
O-Ring Production Networks
Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence From Kenya
Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metropolis
Tax Enforcement Using a Hybrid between Self- and Third-party Reporting
Trade Policy Changes, Tax Evasion and Benford's Law
Climbing the rungs of the quality ladder: FDI and domestic exporters in Romania
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
Good for the environment, good for business: Foreign acquisitions and energy intensity
From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Preferential Rules of Origin
Shipping Inside the Box: Containerization and Trade
Don't Throw in the Towel, Throw in Trade Credit
New and Improved: Does FDI Boost Production Complexity in Host Countries?
Economic sanctions and intermediated trade
Ongoing Projects
Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
Multinational Networks and Trade Participation
Trade Within Multinational Boundaries
A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?
The Rise of Intangible Capital and the Macroeconomic Implications
Climate Change, Firms, and Aggregate Productivity
Credit and Exports: Lessons from Micro-Level Data
Trading Around Geopolitics
Plastic Turkey: International Impacts of China's Waste Import Ban
Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets
Can Big Push Infrastructure Unlock Development? Evidence from Ethiopia.
When Does Electrification Work? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Technology Adoption, Innovation, and Inequality in a Global World
Events
Leading researchers working on topics related to our group are regularly invited to give seminars at Oxford. Recent and upcoming speakers include Costas Arkolakis (Yale), Andy Bernard (Dartmouth), Kirill Borusyak (Berkeley), Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke), Dave Donaldson (MIT), Mayara Felix (Yale), Tishara Garg (MIT), Keith Head (UBC), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Andrei Levchenko (Michigan), Hugo Lhuillier (Columbia), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po), Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago), Jose Vasquez (LSE), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia), and Daniel Xu ((Duke), among others.
The group also organises international conferences and workshops, and other events linked to its main research topics. During the past couple of years, these events include:
- 2024 Research Jamboree on Women in Trade
- 2024 JIE Summer School
- 2025 Research Jamboree on Industrial Organization and Trade
- 2025 CEPR European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT)
- 2025 What Economist Really Do (WERD) episode on The Political Economy of Trade Policy (featuring Paola Conconi and Ralph Ossa