In this paper, we provide evidence of the impact of refugee flows on international trade in the short run. Using panel data on asylum applications in the EU from 2002 to 2015, we develop a novel measure of interstate tensions based on refugee admission rates. Humanitarian conditions in the...

This article documents a negative correlation between asylum policies and imports into the European Union. We argue that this is driven by asylum policies being informed by inter-state tensions. Consistent with this argument, we show that the correlation is stronger in countries where...

This article examines how international relation dynamics shape asylum policies. Using data on asylum applications in the European Union (EU) and international events from 1999 to 2017, we document that EU Member States admit relatively more refugees when diplomatic relations with the country of...

This paper studies the distributional effects of a major transport infrastructure project, the construction of the US Interstate Highway System. Using data from 1950 to 2000, it first provides reduced-form evidence of the impact of highways on the location choices of heterogeneous workers. In...

This paper proposes a new determinant of labor share changes. Using micro-data on the universe of French manufacturing exporters over 1995-2007, I show that a measure of export demand growth exogenous to firm-level outcomes drives down the manufacturing labor share through two effects. First,...