Development, Trade and Migration

Development, Trade and Migration Research Group

Researchers in the Development, Trade and Migration group study how individuals, firms, bodies from the civil society and governments adjust to globalisation.

Their work considers how those groups respond to their environment to improve economic and human development, for example through investing in human capital, migrating to foreign countries, exporting their production or creating firms.

Staff

PhD students

NhuY NguyenHuyhn

  • Title: The economic impact of high-skilled immigration
  • Supervisors: Alice Mesnard, Firat Yaman

Miriama Kamara

  • Supervisors: Dgmara Celik, Alice Mesnard

Past PhD students

Azar Sultanov, 2021,

  • Title: The Impact of Immigration on Public Debt: A Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis,
  • Supervisors: Prof M. Ben-Gad and Prof J. Pearlman.
  • First Placement: UNDP and International Monetary Fund

Yi Mu2022

  • Title: Essays on policy evaluation: assessing policy impact on physical and mental well-being among vulnerable populations using quasi-experimental methods.”

Ekaterina Bordea2019

  • Title: Essays on the effect of immigration and assimilation on immigrants’ health and health behaviours: evidence from the United Kingdom and Russian Federation

Joseph Kamara2015

  • Title: Essays on willingness and ability to pay for health insurance

Alina Velias2021

  • Title: Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics

Publications

Journal articles

2022

M. Jofre-Bonet J.Kamara A Mesnard " Corruption and Informal Sector Households’ Participation in Health Insurance in Sierra Leone” . Resubmitted PlosOne, 2022

Defever, F. and A. Riaño "Firm-Destination Heterogeneity and the Distribution of Export Intensity," Economics Letters, 110810

Defever, F. and A. Riaño "The Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution," Journal of the European Economic Association, 20:  1347-1394

2020

Celik, L., Karabay, B. and McLaren, J., Fast-track authority: A hold-up interpretation, Journal of International Economics, 2020.

Defever, F., J.-D. Reyes, A. Riaño and G. Varela "All These Worlds are Yours Except India: The Effectiveness of Cash Export Subsidies in Nepal," European Economic Review 128: 103494

2019

A Mesnard with Joachim DeWeerdt, and Garance Genicot, " Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks”  . Journal of Human Resources, 54 225-254, January 1, 2019.

Anyfantaki S., Kalyvitis, S., Katsimi, M. & Thomaidou, E., 2019, Export pricing at the firm level with panel data, In M. Tsionas (Ed.), Panel data econometrics volume 2: empirical applications, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128158593

Defever, F., J.-D. Reyes, A. Riaño and M. E. Sanchez-Martin "Special Economic Zones and WTO Compliance: Evidence from the Dominican Republic," Economica 86: 532-568

2018

Ben-Gad, M. On the Political Economy of Deficit Bias and Immigration. The Economic Journal, 128(614), pp. 2191–2221. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12502.

M Jofre Bonet J Kamara A Mesnard, A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit the Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance by the Informal Sector Workers in Sierra Leone” International Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 3(1), 2018.

2017

Ben-Gad, M., (panel member and contributing author). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi.org/10.17226/23550.

Defever, F. and A. Riaño "Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China," Journal of Development Economics, 126:  33-51

2016

A Mesnard with E. Auriol “Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song ?” with E.Auriol, Economica, Volume 83, Issue 332, Pages: 646–678, October 2016. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecca.12204/full

A Mesnard, P. Seabright “Migration and The Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases” with P.Seabright Journal of Demographic Economics. Volume  82 , Issue 01, 1 – 26, 2016.

A Mesnard with Janssens W., Goedecke J., de Bree G., Aderibigbe S.A., Akande T.M“The Financial Burden of Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases in Rural Nigeria: Wealth and Gender Heterogeneity in Health Care Utilization and Health Expenditures” . and Mesnard A. PlosOne

A Mesnard  with B. Malde, E. Fizsimons and M.Vera Hernandez   “Nutrition, information and household behavior: Experimental evidence from Malawi” with B. Malde, E. Fizsimons and M.Vera Hernandez. Journal of Development Economics. Volume 122, Pages 113–126, September 2016

Girma, S., Lancheros, S. P. and A. Riaño "Global Engagement and Returns Volatility," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 78: 814-833

2015

A Mesnard with S Djajic “Guest Workers in the Underground Economy” Labour Economics. vol. 35: 53-62 August, 2015.
Celik, L., Karabay, B. and McLaren, J., When is it optimal to delegate: The theory of fast-track authority, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015.

Defever, F. and A. Riaño "Gone for Good? Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China: 2002-2013," World Bank Economic Review, 29:  S125-S154

2014

Agarwal, N., C. Milner and A. Riaño "Credit Constraints and Spillovers from Foreign Firms in China," Journal of Banking & Finance 48: 261-275
2013

Celik, L., Karabay, B. and McLaren, J., Trade policy-making in a model of legislative bargaining, Journal of International Economics, 2013.

Heid, B., M. Larch and A. Riaño "The Rise of the Maquiladoras: A Mixed Blessing," Review of Development Economics 17: 252-267

2013

Yaman, F. (2013) "Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach" with A. Danzer, Review of International Economics, 21(2), pp.311-25.

2009

Mesnard, A. (2009) "Escaping Infectious Diseases through Migration? Quarantine measures under incomplete information about infection risk" with P. Seabright, Journal of Public Economics, 93, pp.931-8.

Ben-Gad, M. (2008) "Capital-Skill Complementaries and the Immigration Surplus", Review of Economic Dynamics, 11, 2008, pp.335-65.

Working papers

Ben-Gad, M. (2013), "On Deficit Bias and Immigration", (revision requested by The Economic Journal).

Mesnard, A. (2008), "Migration and the Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases" with P. Seabright), CEPR Discussion Paper 6651.

Mesnard, A. (2009), "Migration, Violence and Welfare Programmes in Rural Colombia", IFS Working Paper W09/19.

Mesnard, A. (2012), 'Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?' with E. Auriol, Toulouse School of Economics. CEPR DP8569, 2012. CREAM/Norface Discussion Paper No. 2012/07. Department of Economics DP 13/06, City University London.

Mesnard, A. (2013), "Guest Workers in the Underground Economy" with Slobodan Djajic, CREAM Discussion Paper Series No. 24/13 and the Department of Economics DP 13/05, City University London.

Ortega, J. (2013), " Assimilation in Multilingual Cities" with G. Verdugo (revision requested by the Journal of Population Economics).

Ortega, J. (2013), "Immigration and the Occupational Distribution of Natives: a Factor Proportions Approach" with G. Verdugo (revision requested by Labour Economics).

Ortega, J. (2013), "The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence" with G. Verdugo.

Yaman, F. (2011), "Ethnic Externalities and Second Generation Immigrants", City University London, Department of Economics, DP 11/08.

Yaman, F. (2011), "Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany" joint with A.M. Danzer, City University London, Department of Economics, DP 11/09.

Book chapters and book reviews

Ben-Gad, M. (2013) 'Review of International Migration in the Age of Crisis and Globalization, by Andrés-Solimano'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. Economica, 80(318), pp.379-80, April 2013.

Media

Riaño, Alejandro "Why Labour's 'buy British' plan is not going to succeed", The Conversation, July 6, 2021

Defever, F. and A. Riaño "Free ports could help Britain take back control and keep trade flowing with the EU", with F. Defever, The Conversation, September 1, 2020 Defever, F., J.-D. Reyes, A. Riaño and M. E. Sanchez-Martin "Special Economic Zones and their Compliance with WTO Subsidy Rules," VoxLACEA, May 24, 2018

"Special Economic Zones, Global Value Chains, and the Degree of Economic Linkages in the Dominican Republic", World Bank Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice Report, February 2017.

January 2019: Michael Ben-Gad, When Britain becomes ‘New Australia’: on the economic impact of immigration. LSE Blogpost

October 2022: Michael Ben-Gad, Europe should grant asylum to Russian military reservists to hasten the end of the war in Ukraine, LSE Blogpost

November 2022: Michael Ben-Gad, Ukraine war: Putin’s bid to weaponise refugees is failing – here’s what that means for Europe, The Conversation

Mesnard, A. (2011) 'Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?'. Published in VoxEU, 4 June 2011, with E. Auriol.

Mesnard, A. (2011) 'La fin du trafic d'Etres Humains'. Published in LeMonde.fr, 9 octobre 2012, with E. Auriol.