Davin Chor

Research Interests:
Primary Fields: International Trade, Political Economy
Secondary Fields: Growth and Development, Economic History

Research Papers

Working Papers:

o "Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World". With Edwin L.-C. Lai. November 2009 version (preliminary).

o "Off the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis". With Kalina Manova. December 2009 version.

o "Unpacking Sources of Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Approach". February 2010 version. Under Review.

o "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy". With Filipe R. Campante. February 2010 version. Revise and resubmit.
Previously circulated as: "Schooling and Political Participation in a Neoclassical Framework: Theory and Evidence".

o "Host Country Financial Development and MNC Activity". With C. Fritz Foley and Kalina Manova. October 2008 version

Publications:

o "Subsidies for FDI: Implications from a Model with Heterogeneous Firms". Journal of International Economics, June 2009, 78(1): 113-125. [Appendix (Proofs)]

o "Instability and the Incentives for Corruption". Economics and Politics, March 2009, 21(1): 42-92. With Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do.
[Supplementary Appendix]
Reviewed by smarteconomist.com, Report 110.

o "Institutions, Wages and Inequality -- The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)". Explorations in Economic History, October 2005, 42(4): 547-566.
Click here for the working paper version, September 2004, Harvard CID Graduate Student Working Paper Series No. 1.

Other Papers:

o "The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices around the World". With Richard B. Freeman. September 2005. NBER Working Paper No. 11598.
Click here for the dataset.

Work in Progress:

o "Skilled and Unskilled Wages in a Globalizing World, 1968-1998".
Unpublished mimeo, not to be cited (dataset under revision).

o "Behavioral Economics and Economists’ Behavior: Evidence from the AEA Meetings".
With Filipe R. Campante, Brent Neiman, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros and Matthew Weinzierl.

Op-Eds and Popular Articles:

o "700-billion-dollar question: Why Did They Change Their Minds?". With Filipe R. Campante.
Guest blog, 5 Oct 2008, Dani Rodrik's weblog. [Technical Appendix]

o "Off the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis". With Kalina Manova.
VOX, 15 Feb 2010.