PUBLICATIONS
HAWAI'I DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION REPORTS
“Hawaii Individual Income Tax Statistics” for Tax Years 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018, (with Seth Colby), Department of Taxation, State of Hawaii, Tax Research and Planning Office, August 2023, September 2022, September 2021 and December 2020.
“Hawaii General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions” for Tax Years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017, (with Seth Colby), Department of Taxation, State of Hawaii, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2023, December 2022, December 2021, December 2020, December 2019, and December 2018.
“Tax Credits Claimed by Hawaii Taxpayers” for Tax Years 2017 and 2016, (with Seth Colby), Department of Taxation, State of Hawaii, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2019 and December 2018.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Wage Inequality Dynamics and Trade Exposure in South Korea,” (with Chrysostomos Tabakis), Journal of Asian Economics, 48: 48-65, 2017.
“Trade-Diverting Free Trade Agreements, External Tariffs, and Feasibility,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 25(1): 1-22, [lead article], 2016.
“Varying Political Economy Weights of Protection: The Case of Colombia,” Economics & Politics, 27(2): 290-312, 2015.
“Productivity Matters for Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence,” International Economic Review, 52(1): 33-62, 2011.
“The Clash of Liberalizations: Preferential vs. Multilateral Trade Liberalization in the European Union,” (with Nuno Limao), Journal of International Economics, 74(2): 299-327, 2008.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“What Do We Know about Preferential Trade Agreements and Temporary Trade Barriers?” (with Chad Bown and Patricia Tovar), in Andreas Dür and Manfred Elsig (eds.), Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), 433-462, 2015.
“Turkey: Temporary Trade Barriers as Resistance to Trade Liberalisation with the European Union?” in Chad P. Bown (ed.), The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers, (London, UK: Centre for Economic Policy Research and the World Bank), 367-410, 2011.
“Deposit Insurance around the World: A Comprehensive Database,” (with Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward Kane, and Luc Laeven), in Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward J. Kane and Luc Laeven (eds.), Deposit Insurance around the World: Issues of Design and Implementation, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 363-382, 2008.
POLICY ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Unclaimed: Over $15 million in Tax Credits for Low Income Households,” (with Dylan T. Moore), The Economic Research Organization at the University of Hawai'i (UHERO), April 29, 2024.
“International Trade Effects of a Potentially Revived Trans-Pacific Partnership for North America,” (with Deveraux Talagi), Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 5(3): 321-342, [lead article], 2018.
“Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality,” (with Theresa Greaney), Perspectives from around the World, 102, (Tokyo, Japan: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), April 23, 2018.
“Editorial: Trade, Growth and Economic Inequality in the Asia-Pacific Region,” (with Theresa Greaney), Journal of Asian Economics, 48: 1-5, 2017.
“Finance Issues,” in Chul Chung, Charles E. Morrison and Mark Thoma (eds.), 2015 Trans-Pacific Intellectual Dialogue, (Seoul: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy and East-West Center), 284-289, 2017.
“Access to Finance in Turkey,” Turkish Economic Review, 4(1): 1-18, [lead article], 2017.
“Trade, Growth and Economic Inequality in the Asia-Pacific Region: Lessons for Policymakers,” (with Theresa Greaney), Journal of Economics and Political Economy, 4(2): 135-143, [lead article], 2017.
“Turkey’s Resistance to Trade Liberalisation with the EU through Temporary Trade Barriers,” VoxEU.org, September 4, 2011.
“Determinants of Contagious Currency and Financial Crises: The Case of Asia 1997,” Bogazici Journal, 14(1): 77-89, 2000.