Research interests: international trade, economic integration and development economics

 

Research projects on: the duration of trade, trade facilitation and trade preferences

 

Publications:

• Hess, W. and M. Persson (2011), “The Duration of Trade Revisited. Continuous-Time vs. Discrete-Time Hazards”, Empirical Economics, DOI 10.1007/s00181-011-0518-4

• Bourdet, Y. and M. Persson (2011), “Completing the European Union Customs Union. The Effects of Trade Procedure Harmonization”, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, DOI 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2011.02203.x

• Persson, M. (2011), “Trade Facilitation and the Extensive Margin”, forthcoming in Journal of International Trade and Economic Development

• Hess, W. and M. Persson (2011), “Exploring the Duration of EU Imports”, Review of World Economics (formerly Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), DOI 10.1007/s10290-011-0106-x

• Persson, M. (2009), “From Trade Preferences to Trade Facilitation”, Lund Economic Studies No. 151

• Persson, M. (2008), “Trade Facilitation and the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements”, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 518-546.

• Persson, M. and F. Wilhelmsson (2007), “Assessing the Effects of EU Trade Preferences for Developing Countries”, in Y. Bourdet, J. Gullstrand and K. Olofsdotter (eds.): The European Union and Developing Countries: Trade, Aid and Growth in an Integrating World, Edward Elgar.

 

Submitted Papers and Working Papers:

• Persson (2011), “From Trade Preferences to Trade Facilitation. Taking Stock of the Issues”. Economics Discussion Papers, No 2011-23, http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2011-23. Status: Invited for revision and resubmission

• Bourdet, Y. and M. Persson (2011), “Reaping the Benefits of Deeper Euro-Med Integration Through Trade Facilitation”, Working Paper No. 2011:15, Department of Economics, Lund University. Status: Submitted

• Hess, W. and M. Persson (2011), “Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of Trade Survival”, Working Paper No. 880, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

 

Work in Progress:

• Hess, W., M. Persson, S. Rubenbauer and J. Gertheiss (2011), “The Varying Effects of Distance on The Survival of Trade Flows”, paper presented at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Thirteenth Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2011

• Gullstrand, J. and M. Persson (2011), “Are Sunk Costs of Exporting Compatible with Short Export Survival?”, paper presented at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Thirteenth Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2011 (previous title “The Survival of Swedish Food Exports”)

• Wilhelmsson, F. and M. Persson (2009), “EU Trade Preferences and Export Diversification”, Paper prepared for the Trade, Growth and Governance project at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)