Empirical analyses of Productivity and Labour Market Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalisation in Developed and Developing Countries. These analyses have employed data at the country, industry, firm and plant levels.
Economic Growth and Development
“Do Natural Barriers Affect the Trade Openness-Growth Relationship? ” (with S. Girma, R. Kneller and C.R. Milner), [Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, #1, pp. 1-19, February, 2012]
“Trade, Technology Transfer and National Efficiency in Developing Countries” (with R. Kneller and C.R. Milner), [European Economic Review, Vol. 53, #2, 2009]
“Multinational Companies, Backward, Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities” (with H. Görg, E. Strobl and F. Walsh),[ Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 42, #1, February, 2009]
“Grant Support and Exporting Activity” (with H. Görg and E. Strobl), [Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 90, #1, pp 168-174, February, 2008]
“Formulating Trade Policy in a Small Hydrocarbon Dependent Economy: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago”, [World Economy: Global Trade Policy Issue, Vol. 30, Issue 8, August, 2007]