PUBLICATIONS
“Migration Effects of the Maui Wildfires: Early Indicators from State Tax Filings,” (with Dylan T. Moore), The Economic Research Organization at the University of Hawai'i (UHERO), January 14, 2025
“Hawai'i Individual Income Tax Statistics: Tax Year 2022,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2024.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2023,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2024.
“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.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2022,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2023.
“Hawai'i Individual Income Tax Statistics: Tax Year 2021,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, August 2023.
“New Departmental Tax Initiatives Significantly Reduced GET Exemptions in 2021, Saving the Hawai'i Taxpayers an Estimated $196.5 Million,” Tax Research Insights, Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2022.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2021,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2022.
“Hawai'i Individual Income Tax Statistics: Tax Year 2020,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, September 2022.
“Hawaii’s Individual Income Tax Is Progressive,” Tax Research Insights, Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, May 11, 2022.
“A Quarter of All Gross Receipts in Hawai‘i Are Exempted from the GET,” Tax Research Insights, Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, January 2022.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2020,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2021.
“Summary of Recommendations Made by Past Tax Review Commissions, Subsequent Legislation, and Background Information,” Appendix C, Report of the 2020–2022 Tax Review Commission, State of Hawai‘i, December 20, 2021.
“Hawai'i Individual Income Tax Statistics: Tax Year 2019,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, September 2021.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2019,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2020.
“Hawai'i Individual Income Tax Statistics: Tax Year 2018,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2020.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2018,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2019.
“Tax Credits Claimed by Hawai'i Taxpayers: Tax Year 2017,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2019.
“Hawai'i General Excise & Use Tax Exemptions: Tax Year 2017,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2018.
“Tax Credits Claimed by Hawai'i Taxpayers: Tax Year 2016,” Department of Taxation, State of Hawai'i, Tax Research and Planning Office, December 2018.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Productivity Matters for Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence,” International Economic Review, 52(1): 33-62, 2011.
“Turkey’s Resistance to Trade Liberalisation with the EU through Temporary Trade Barriers,” VoxEU.org, September 4, 2011.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Determinants of Contagious Currency and Financial Crises: The Case of Asia 1997,” Bogazici Journal, 14(1): 77-89, 2000.