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Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins (2025)
Journal Article
Lartey, A., & Kassa, W. (online). Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins. IMF Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-025-00290-1

What are the impacts of resource windfalls on the extensive and intensive margins of non-resource exports? Studies suggest that these windfalls could be detrimental to non-resource exports but are not clear on the margins through which exports adjust... Read More about Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins.

Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fiankor, D.-D. D., Woubet, K., & Lartey, A. (2024). Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins. Washington, DC

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction data at the firm-product level with bilateral inf... Read More about Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins.