Research Interests: My research activities cover issues related to international trade, foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions. My current and past work in these fields looked at the role of trade costs, infrastructure, and institutions in economic integration; the issue of home bias and non-tariff barriers, the importance of trade preferences, multilateral trade liberalization; rules of origin, and regional economic integration in Europe.

working papers & publications

Publications

"Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization," The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 197-216, 2006, with Joseph F. Francois and Bernard Hoekman.

"Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU Imports from ACP Countries," The World Economy, Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 1243-1266, September 2006.

"Making EU Trade Agreements Work: The Role of Rules of Origin," The World Economy, Vol. 26, pp. 755-769, May 2003, with Paul Brenton.

Working Papers

"Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade," Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper No. 224, Joseph F. Francois and Miriam Manchin.

"Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements," World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4273, Miriam Manchin and Annette O. Pelkmans-Balaoing.

"Clothes Without an Emperor: Analysis of the Preferential Tariffs in ASEAN," Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper No. 223, Miriam Manchin and Annette O. Pelkmans-Balaoing.

"Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs," University of Nottingham Research Paper Series No. 2005/17. with Alexander Hijzen and Holger Gorg.

"Border effects in the enlarged EU area," Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia in its series Working Paper CRENoS with number 200301, with Anna Maria Pinna.

Teaching and Supervision

I am on leave during the 2007/2008 academic year. Courses taught otherwise include: