Welcome!

I am currently a first year Econonomics PhD student at UC Berkeley. My interests lie at the intersection of international trade, spatial economics, and environmental economics. Click here for my CV and here to learn more about my research.

  • mattmurillo@berkeley.edu
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    • Research

    Published papers

  • Coming soon.

    • Working papers

  • Voluntary Emission Restraints in Developing Economies: The Role of Trade Policy (with Lorenzo Caliendo, Marcelo Dolabella, Mauricio Moreira, and Fernando Parro)
  • Trade, Taxation, and the Enviroment: Evaluating the Economic Impact on Households

    • Research assistantships

  • Reciprocity and the China Shock (Bown, Caliendo, Parro, Staiger, Sykes)
  • Mechanics of Spatial Growth (Cai, Caliendo, Parro, Xiang)
  • Tariff Reductions, Heterogeneous Firms, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades (Caliendo, Feenstra, Romalis, Taylor)
  • A Second-Best Argument for Low Optimal Tariffs on Intermediate Inputs (Caliendo, Feenstra, Romalis, Taylor)
  • Transportation Infrastructure and City-Center Accessibility in the US and Europe (Conwell, Eckert, Mobarak)

    • Notes

    Projects

    Trade Simulator

    A quantitative general equilibrium trade model that simulates the effects of different trade policies on the global economy. The model is based on Caliendo and Parro 2015, and trade flows are estimated using OECD Inter-Country Input Output data from 2020.

    CFRT Website

    Developed the website for the paper, Tariff Reductions, Heterogeneous Firms, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades by Caliendo, Feenstra, Romalis, and Taylor. You can visit the site to download tariff data from the years 1990 to 2010 at the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) 4-digit level.