Javier Cravino

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan

Research Associate, NBER 

Editorial Board Member, IMF Economic Review


Email: jcravino@umich.edu

Office address: Lorch Hall, 352

611 Tappan Street Ann Arbor , MI 48109, USA


Curriculum vitae 

Working Papers   


"Input Price Dispersion Across Buyers and Misallocation,"  with  Ariel Burstein and Marco Rojas. June 2024.

"The International Price of Remote Work," with  Agostina Brinatti , Alberto Cavallo and Andres Drenik, May 2023.

Revision requested, Review of Economic Studies.

"Exchange Rates, Aggregate Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of International Trade," August 2017.

Peer Reviewed Publications   

"Firm-Embedded Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences," with Vanessa Alviarez and Natalia Ramondo, July 2022. NBER WP 27915. Minneapolis FED non-technical summary. 

Journal of Political Economy, 2023. Vol. 131(9).

"Population Aging and Structural Transformation," with Andrei Levchenko and Marco Rojas.

AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2022. Vol. 14(4). 479-498.

"Price Rigidities and Relative PPP," with Andres Blanco

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020. Vol. 116. 104-116.  Online Appendix. VoxEu.org Column.

"Real Exchange Rates, Income per Capita, and Sectorial Input Shares," with Sam Haltenhof.

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020. Vol 102(1). 180-194.  Online Appendix.

"Price Stickiness Along the Income Distribution and the Effects of Monetary Policy," with Ting Lan and Andrei Levchenko.

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2020. Vol. 110: 19-32.  VoxEu.org Column.

"Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium," with Sebastian Sotelo.

AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2019. Vol 11(3). 289-326.

"The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations," with Andrei Levchenko

American Economic Review, 2017. Vol. 107(11): 3477-3509. VoxEu.org Column.

"Multinational Firms and International Business Cycle Transmission," with Andrei Levchenko. Online Appendix. 

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017. Vol. 132(2): 921-962. VoxEu.org Column.

"The Growth of Multinational Firms in the Great Recession," with Vanessa Alviarez and Andrei Levchenko.

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017. Vol. 85(C): 50-64.

"Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade," with Ariel Burstein. Slides. Online Appendix.

AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2015. Vol. 7(2): 181-218.

"Importing Skill-Biased Technology," with Ariel Burstein and Jonathan Vogel. Slides. Online Appendix.

AEJ: Macroeconomics, 2013, Vol 5(2): 32-71.


Other Publications   

Discussion of "Inflation Dynamics: Dead, Dormant, or Determined Abroad?" by Kristin Forbes.

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2019. 320-325.

"The Geographic Spread of a Large Devaluation," with Andrei Levchenko.

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2018. Vol 108: 562-66.