Publications

Articles

“Increasing Marginal Costs, Firm Heterogeneity, and the Gains from ‘Deep’ International Trade Agreements,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 144, No. 103774, September 2023 (with Stephen R. Cray and Antoine Gervais). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Putting Canada in the Penalty Box: Trade and Welfare Effects of Eliminating the North American Free Trade Agreement,” The World Economy, Vol. 42, No. 12, December 2019, 3488-3514 (with Scott Baier and John P. Bruno). (PDF File)

“Heterogeneous Effects of Economic Integration Agreements,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 135, November 2018, 587-608 (with Scott Baier and Matthew Clance). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Should TPP Be Formed? On the Potential Economic, Governance, and Conflict-Reducing Impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement,” East Asian Economic Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2016, 279-309. (PDF File)

“Economic Determinants of the Timing of Preferential Trade Agreement Formations and Enlargements,” Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, No. 1, January 2016, 315-341 (with Peter Egger and Mario Larch). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation,” European Economic Review, Vol. 78, August 2015, 307-327 (with Mario Larch and Yoto Yotov). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Preliminary Examination of Heterogeneous Effects on International Trade of Economic Integration Agreements,” in Andreas Dur and Manfred Elsig (eds.), Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design, and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 355-373 (with Scott Baier). (PDF File) (Book)

“Economic Integration Agreements and the Margins of International Trade,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 93, No. 2, July 2014 (with Scott L. Baier and Michael Feng). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Governance and Globalisation,” The World Economy, Vol. 37, No. 3, March 2014 (with Koen Berden and Eva van Etten). (PDF File)

“Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements Revisited: Distinguishing Sources of Interdependence,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2014 (with Scott L. Baier and Ronald Mariutto). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Shouldn’t Physical Capital Also Matter for Multinational Enterprise Activity?”, Review of International Economics, Vol. 21, No. 5, November 2013 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Measuring the Effects of Endogenous Policies on Economic Integration,” CESifo Economics Studies, Vol 59, No. 2, June 2013. (PDF File)

“What Determines BITs?” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 90, No. 1, May 2013 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Gravity Redux:  Estimation of Gravity-Equation Coefficients, Elasticities of Substitution, and General Equilibrium Comparative Statics under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 89, No. 1, January 2013 (with Peter Egger and Mario Larch). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Gravity Equations and Economic Frictions in the World Economy,” in Daniel Bernhofen, Rod Falvey, David Greenaway, and Udo Kreickemeier (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File) (Book)

“A General Equilibrium Theory for Estimating Gravity Equations of Bilateral FDI, Final Goods Trade, and Intermediate Goods Trade,” in Steven Brakman and Peter van Bergeijk (eds.), The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File) (Book)

“Approximating General Equilibrium Impacts of Trade Liberalizations using the Gravity Equation: Applications to NAFTA and the European Economic Area,” in Steven Brakman and Peter van Bergeijk (eds.), The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (with Scott Baier). (PDF File) (Book)

Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple Method for Approximating International Trade-Cost Effects using the Gravity Equation, ” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 77, No. 1, February 2009, 77-85 (with Scott Baier). (PDF File)

“Estimating the Effects of Free Trade Agreements on International Trade Flows using Matching Econometrics” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 77, No. 1, February 2009, 63-76 (with Scott Baier). (PDF File)

“The Growth of Regional Economic Integration Agreements and the Middle East,” Region et Developpement, 2009 (with Scott Baier and Peter Egger). (PDF File)

“Trade Costs,” in Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary, Second Edition, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008. (PDF File) (Book)

“Regional and Inter-Regional Trade Agreements: Examining their Role for the Middle East,” in Globalization in the 21st Century: How Interconnected is the World?, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2008 (with Scott Baier and Patrick McLaughlin). (PDF File) (Book)

“Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work?  Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism,” The World Economy, vol. 31, No. 4, April 2008, 461-497 (with Scott L. Baier, Peter Egger, and Patrick A. McLaughlin). (PDF File)

“A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade Flows, Foreign Direct Investment, and Multinational Enterprises,”  Journal of International Economics, Vol. 73, No. 2, November 2007, 278-308 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File) (Supplement)

“Free Trade Agreements In the Americas:  Are the Trade Effects Larger than Anticipated?” The World Economy, Vol. 30, No. 9, September 2007, 1347-1377 (with Scott Baier and Erika Vidal). (PDF File)

“The New Regionalism: Causes and Consequences,” Economie Internationale, 2007 (with Scott Baier and Peter Egger). (PDF File)

“Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 71, No. 1, March 2007, 72-95 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File)

“Trade Costs and Intra-Industry Trade,” Review of World Economics, Vol. 142, No. 3, 2006 (with Peter Egger). (PDF File)

“Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements,” Journal of International Economics, Vol 64, No. 1, October 2004, 29-63 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File)

“Government Expenditure and Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates,” Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 21, No. 5, October 2002, 667-692 (with Ronald J. Balvers). (PDF File)

Comments on “Is APEC a Building Block or Stumbling Block towards Trade Liberalization?” in Robert M. Stern (ed.), Issues and Options for U.S.-Japan Trade Policies, Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2002, 299-302. (PDF File) (Book)

“The Growth of World Trade:  Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity,” Journal of International Economics, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 2001, 1-27 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File)

“International Trade in Services, Regional Free Trade Agreements, and the WTO,” in Robert M. Stern (ed.), Services in the International Economy, Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2000 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File) (Book)

Comments on ‘Determinants of Bilateral Trade Flows: Does Gravity Work in a Neoclassical World?'” in Jeffrey Frankel (ed.), The Regionalization of the World Economy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (PDF File) (Book)

“Comments on ‘The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Survey with Application to the United States,'” in Hiro Lee and David Roland-Holst (eds.), Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin: Trade, Investment, and Environmental Issues, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (PDF File) (Book)

“Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates: Closed-Form Theoretical Solutions and Some Empirical Evidence,” Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 1997, 345-366 (with Ronald J. Balvers). (PDF File)

“International Trade, Regional Free Trade Agreements, and Economic Development,” Review of Development Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1997, 153-170 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File)

“International Trade, Regionalization, and Economic Linkages within the Pacific Basin,” in Kwan S. Kim and Robert J. Riemer (eds.), Economic Cooperation and Integration: East Asian Experiences, Notre Dame, Indiana: Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 1997 (with Scott L. Baier). (PDF File)

“Productivity, Factor Endowments, Military Expenditures, and Relative National Price Levels,” in J. Salazar-Carillo and D.S. Prasada Rao (eds.), International Comparisons of Prices, Output and Productivity, in the Contributions to Economic Analysis series. Vol. 231, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1996, 297-317. (PDF File) (Book)

“The Scope, Growth and Causes of Income Inequality in an Open U.S. Economy,” in J.H. Bergstrand et al. (eds.), The Changing Distribution of Income in an Open U.S. Economy, in the Contributions to Economic Analysis series, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1994, 3-27 (with T. F. Cosimano, J.W. Houck, and R.G. Sheehan). (PDF File) (Book)

“Real Exchange Rates, National Price Levels, and the Peace Dividend,” American Economic Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings, May 1992, 55-61. (PDF File)

“On Modeling the Impact of Arms Reductions on World Trade,” in Walter Isard and Charles Anderton (eds.), The Economics of Arms Reduction and the Peace Process, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1992, 121-142. (PDF File) (Book)

“Structural Determinants of Real Exchange Rates and National Price Levels: Some Empirical Evidence,” American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, March 1991, 325-334. (PDF File)

“The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model, the Linder Hypothesis, and the Determinants of Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade,” Economic Journal, Vol. 100, No. 403, December 1990, 1216-1229. (PDF File)

“Currency Substitution and Monetary Autonomy: The Foreign Demand for U.S. Demand Deposits,” Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1990, 325-334 (with Thomas P. Bundt). (PDF File)

“The Generalized Gravity Equation, Monopolistic Competition, and the Factor-Proportions Theory in International Trade,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 71, No. 1, February 1989, 143-153. (PDF File)

“The U.S. Trade Deficit: A Perspective from Selected Bilateral Trade Models,” New England Economic Review, May/June 1987, 19-31. (PDF File)

“United States-Japanese Trade: Predictions Using Selected Economic Models,” New England Economic Review, May/June 1986, 26-37. (PDF File)

“Money, Interest Rates, and Foreign Exchange Rates as Indicators for Monetary Policy,” New England Economic Review, November/December 1985, 3-14. Summarized in The Chartered Financial Analysts Digest, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 1986. (PDF File)

“The Gravity Equation in International Trade: Some Microeconomic Foundations and Empirical Evidence,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 3, August 1985, 474-481. (PDF File)

“Short-Run Domestic Monetary Control in an International Money Market,” New England Economic Review, July/August 1984, 29-38. Summarized in The Chartered Financial Analysts Digest, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter 1985. (PDF File)

“Exchange Rate Variation and Monetary Policy,” New England Economic Review, May/June 1985, 5-18. (PDF File)

“Bretton Woods Revisited,” New England Economic Review, September/October 1984, 22-33. Reprinted in The International Monetary System: Forty Years After Bretton Woods, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 28, 1984, 1-14. (PDF File)

“Selected Views of Exchange Rate Determination After a Decade of ‘Floating’,” New England Economic Review, May/June 1983, 14-29. (PDF File) (Supplement)

  • Reprinted in D.R. Fraser and P.S. Rose (eds.), Financial Institutions and Markets in a Changing World, Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc., 1984.
  • Reprinted in Thomas H. Havrilesky (ed.), Modern Concepts in Macroeconomics, Arlington Hgts., IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1985.
  • Reprinted in J. Kvasnicka (ed.), Readings in International Finance, Chicago: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1987.
  • Summarized in The Chartered Financial Analysts Digest, Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 1984.

“Is Exchange Rate Volatility ‘Excessive’?” New England Economic Review, September/October 1983, 5-14. (PDF File)

“Measurement and Determinants of Intra-Industry International Trade,” in P.K.M. Tharakan (ed.), Intra-Industry Trade: Empirical and Methodological Aspects, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1983, 201-253. (PDF File)

“The Scope, Growth and Causes of Intra-Industry International Trade,” New England Economic Review, September/October 1982, 45-61. (PDF File) (Supplement)

Books & Special Issues

Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (Ed.), Understanding Globalization Through the Lens of Gravity, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019. (Book)

The Sequencing of Regional Economic Integration: Issues in the Depth and Breadth of Economic Integration in the Americas, a special issue of The World Economy, vol. 31, no. 1, January 2008, edited by Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, Antoni Estevadeordal, and Simon Evenett. (Introduction) (Issue)

Going Global:  25 Keys to International Operations, for the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, New York: Lebhar-Friedman Books, Inc., 1999. (Book)

J.H. Bergstrand, T.F. Cosimano, J.W. Houck, and R.G. Sheehan (eds.), The Changing Distribution of Income in an Open U.S. Economyin the Contributions to Economic Analysis series, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishing, 1994. (Book)

Book Reviews

of The Transformation of the World Economy, 1980-1993 by Robert Solomon, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994, for the Journal of Economic Literature, September 1996.

of Technology, Duality and Foreign Trade: The GNP Function Approach to Modeling Imports and Exports by Ulrich Kohli, London: Harvester, Wheatsheaf, 1991, for The World Economy, Vol. 15, No. 2, March 1992, 287-288.