December 17, 2020 – Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization accepts “Trade Liberalization and Gender Gaps in Local Labor Markets Outcomes: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States”
November 21, 2020 – Presented “Unfriendly Skies: The Impact of Increases in Distance on Bilateral Trade” virtually at the Southern Economic Association annual conference
November 14, 2020 – Presented “Optimizing Choice Architectures” virtually at INFORMS
August 28, 2020 – Journal of International Economics accepts “Phase Out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?”
June 23, 2020 – Presented “Phase Out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Paris Trade Seminar
April 22, 2020 – Started the Empirical Trade Online Trade seminar series, a weekly virtual international trade seminar
April 17, 2020 – Organized the first International Trade Online event with Jon Haveman and Andrew Bernard
March 20, 2020 – Promoted to full professor, effective August 15, 2020
February 28, 2020 – Discussed a paper at the Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop held at the Atlanta Fed
December 10, 2019 – International Tax and Public Finance accepts “Economic Determinants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements”
November 25, 2019 – Presented “Product Quality, Duration, and Trade Growth” at the 89th Southern Economic Association conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
November 2, 2019 – Presented “Trade Liberalization and Female Welfare: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States” at the Beijing Forum in Beijing, China
October 18, 2019 – Discussed a paper and chaired a session at the Empirical Investigations in International Trade conference held at University of Colorado-Boulder which I helped organize
October 2, 2019 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at Clemson University
September 14, 2019 – Presented “Trade Liberalization and Female Welfare: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States” at the European Trade Study Group conference in Bern, Switzerland
September 9, 2019 – Presented “Trade Liberalization and Female Welfare: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States” and discussed a paper at the Economics of Global Interactions conference in Bari, Italy
September 5, 2019 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference in Cagliari, Italy
August 14, 2019 – AVID presentation in Kell High School, Marietta, GA
June 8, 2019 – Presented “Trade Liberalization and Female Welfare: Dimensions of Adjustment in the United States,” discussed a paper, and chaired a session at the Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference held in Izola, Slovenia
April 30, 2019 – “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” out as CESifo Working Paper No. 7614
April 18, 2019 – Presented “Cheap Talk? Financial Sanctions and Non-Financial Activity” at the Sanctions: Theory, Quantitative Evidence, and Policy Implications conference held at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
March 23, 2019 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Western Economic Association International annual international conference at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan
March 19, 2019 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull” at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, Japan
March 9, 2019 – Discussed a paper and chaired a session at the Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment conference in Sapporo, Japan
January 4, 2019 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Allied Social Science Associations annual conference in Atlanta, GA
January 1, 2019 – Began serving the second term as Executive Secretary of International Economics and Finance Society
November 11, 2018 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Southern Economic Association annual conference in Washington, DC
October 26-28, 2018 – Discussed a paper and chaired a session at the Empirical Investigations in International Trade conference that I co-organize at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
October 19, 2018 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
October 12, 2018 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at the Central Bank of Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico
September 20, 2018 – Presented “Firm Heterogeneity, Trade Liberalization, and Duration of Trade and Production: The Case of India” at the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity workshop held at the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 6, 2018 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference held at the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
September 1, 2018 – Appointed Director of Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade
June 22, 2018 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway
June 19, 2018 – Presented “Trade Liberalization and Female Welfare: Less Discrimination or New Discrimination?” at the Asian Dynamics Initiative conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
June 16, 2018 – Decision Analysis accepts “Optimizing Choice Architectures”
June 12, 2018 – Presented “Phase out Tariffs, Phase In Trade?” at Aarhus University
June 7, 2018 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull” at CEPR’s European Research Workshop in International Trade
June 1-30, 2018 – Visited Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark
May 11, 2018 – “Cheap Talk? Financial Sanctions and Non-Financial Activity” comes out as Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper 09/2018
May 10, 2018 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan
May 8, 2018 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan
March 25, 2018 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull” and discussed a paper at the Australasian Trade Workshop in Auckland, New Zealand
March 22, 2018 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
March 21, 2018 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia
March 9, 2018 – Discussed a paper and chaired a session at the Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment conference in Tokyo, Japan
March 2, 2018 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at the Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop at Atlanta Fed
November 18, 2017 -Presented “The Effect of Multilateral Environmental Agreements on Bilateral Trade Flows” at Southern Economic Association‘s annual conference in Tampa, FL, and chaired several sessions
November 11, 2017 – Presented “The Effect of Multilateral Environmental Agreements on Bilateral Trade Flows” at Midwest International Economics Group Meeting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX
November 5, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the Empirical Investigations in International Trade conference in Washington, DC, at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and George Washington University, conference I helped organize
October 6, 2017 – Presented “Economic Determinants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements” and “The Effect of Multi-Lateral Environmental Agreements on Bilateral Trade Flows” in a seminar at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC
September 12, 2017 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at the Economics of Global Interactions conference in Bari, Italy
September 11, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the Economics of Global Interactions conference in Bari, Italy
September 9, 2017 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference in Cagliari, Italy
September 7, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the Sardinia Empirical Trade Conference in Cagliari, Italy
August 25, 2017 – Gave a seminar at the International American Development Bank in Washington, DC presenting “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull”
August 15 – Appointed Director of Graduate Studies
August 1, 2017 – Began serving as an Associate Editor of the Southern Economic Journal
June 15, 2017 – Presented “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics” at the XIIth Danish International Economics Workshop in Aarhus, Denmark
June 9, 2017 – Presented “Product Quality, Duration, and Trade Growth” at the Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference in Izola, Slovenia
June 8, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference in Izola, Slovenia
May 19, 2017 – Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade conference took place, a conference I helped organize
May 18, 2017 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at the 4th InsTED Workshop on “Advances in Institutions, Trade, and Economic Development” joint with the 9th Sao Paulo School of Economics Conference Series on “Trade & Labor and other Institutions” in Sao Paulo, Brazil
March 10, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the Empirical Investigation in Trade and Investment conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
March 9, 2017 – Presented “Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull“ at the Empirical Investigation in Trade and Investment conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
January 4, 2017 – Presented “Optimizing Choice Architectures” at the 13th International Conference of the Western Economic Association International in Santiago, Chile
January 3, 2017 – Discussed a paper at the 13th International Conference of the Western Economic Association International in Santiago, Chile
November 20, 2016 – Presented “Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?” at the Southern Economic Association‘s annual conference in Washington, DC
October 18, 2016 – Appearance on GPB’s “On Second Thought” discussing legalizing casinos in Georgia
October 14-16, 2016 – Participating at EIIT 2016 at the University of Michigan that I helped organize
October 11, 2016 – Seminar at Harvard’s Center for International Development presenting “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empircis”
October 10, 2016 – Seminar at Boston College presenting “Trade Integration and Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empircis”
October 2, 2016 – Economic Policy accepts “You’re Banned! The Effect of Sanctions on German Cross-Border Financial Flows”
September 10, 2016 – Presented a paper on the phase out of tariffs at the 2016 European Trade Study Group conference
August 23, 2016 – Talked about research with AP Research students in Lassiter High School
August 16, 2016 – Review of International Economics accepts “Distorted Trade Barriers: A Dissection of Trade Costs in a “Distorted Gravity” Model”
August 1, 2016 – Appointed Interim Director of Graduate Programs for 2017 Academic Year
July 19, 2016 – Discussed a paper at the CESifo Venice Summer Institute workshop titled Disrupted Economic Relationships: Disasters, Sanctions, Disolutions, co-organized with Volker Nitsch
June 17, 2016 – Presented a paper on the effect of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull on international trade at the XIIth Danish International Economics Workshop
June 9, 2016 – Presented a paper on the tariff phaseouts in NAFTA in Izola, Slovenia, at the Ljubljana Empirical Trade Conference
June 5, 2016 – Presented a gravity paper on the effect of multilateral environmental agreements in international trade at a conference at the University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, titled The Gravity Equation: Perspectives from Economic History and Trade
April 22, 2016 – Presented the sanctions paper at the 63rd panel of Economic Policy at the Netherlands National Bank in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
April 21, 2016 – Presented the paper on the effect of sanctions on German financial flows at the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
April 5, 2016 – Appearance on GPB’s “On Second Thought” discussing Georgia’s film industry tax incentives
March 28, 2016 – Quoted in a U.S. News and World Report story on the Disney threat to no longer film movies in the state of Georgia
March 23, 2016 – Quoted in a story about Disney’s threat on pulling out of Georgia in The Wrap
March 11, 2016 – Appointed Associate Director of the Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade
March 10-12, 2016 – Empirical Investigation in Trade and Investment, Hanoi, Vietnam, chaired a session and discussed a paper
February 15, 2016 – Economic Inquiry accepts “The Hazardous Effect of Antidumping”
January 5, 2016 – Presentation at ASSA meetings
January 1, 2016 – Became executive secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society
December 11, 2015 – Appearance on GPB’s “On Second Thought” discussing the middle class in Atlanta