born: 11 May, 1977

citizen of France, US permanent resident (green card)

married to Marianne Andries

two children, Gaspard and Léon (`Leo')

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in economics, 2005

thesis advisors: Xavier Gabaix (main), Daron Acemoglu, and Marc Melitz

Ecole Normale Supérieure

student, 1997-2001

advisor: Daniel Cohen

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

M.A. in economics, 2000

thesis advisors: Philippe Martin and Pierre-Philippe Combes

Université Panthéon-Sorbonne

B.A. in economics, 1999

University of Southern California, department of economics

John Elliott chair in economics, since 2025

professor of economics, since 2021

Sciences Po, department of economics

associated professor of economics, 2021-25

professor of economics, 2016-21

Toulouse School of Economics

professor of economics, 2012-16

University of Chicago, department of economics

assistant professor, 2005-13

Thornber research fellow, 2005-13

(on leave 2008-09 and 2012-13)

Review of Economic Studies

joint managing editor, 2019-25

member of the Board of Directors, 2018

member of the Board of Editors, 2013-18

European Economic Association

member of the EEA Council, 2022-26

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2019

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2018

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2017

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2016

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2015

BFI visiting scholar, July-August 2014

CME Group Foundation fellow, July-August 2013

Yale University, Cowles Foundation

Cowles visitor, March 2017

Cowles visitor, April 2013

Princeton University, International Economics Section

Peter B. Kenen visiting fellow, 2008-09

London School of Economics

visiting researcher, 2002-03

Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

research fellow, since 2015 (International Trade and Regional Economics)

research affiliate, 2009-15 (International Trade and Regional Economics)

CESifo Research Network

research fellow, since 2018 (Global Economy)

Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI, Toulouse)

research associate, 2012-16

Banque de France

research department consultant, 2012-16

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

faculty research fellow, 2006-13 (International Trade and Investment)

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

research department consultant, 2006-12

2024 elected Fellow of the Econometric Society

2020-25 ERC advanced grant 884847-HMTG (Historical Migrations, Trade and Growth)

2016 teacher of the year award (Toulouse School of Economics, PhD)

2013-18 ERC starting grant 337272-FiNet (Firm Networks, Trade and Growth)

2011-14 NSF grant SES-1061622 (The Network Structure of International Trade)

2008-09 Kenen fellowship, Princeton

2005-12 Thornber research fellowship, University of Chicago

2005 Review of Economic Studies European Tour

2005 Robert M. Solow Prize for graduate student excellence, MIT

2002-03 European Commission grant

2000-02 MIT, graduate fellowship

1997-2001 Ecole Normale Supérieure, full fellowship

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth 

Stephen Terryⓡ; Thomas Chaneyⓡ; Konrad Burchardiⓡ; Lisa Tarquinioⓡ; and Tarek Hassanⓡ

conditionally accepted

American Economic Review 

The Immigrant Next Door

Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Chaney; Tarek Hassan; and Aakaash Rao

February 2024, 114(2): 348-84

American Economic Review

Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints  

Sylvain Catherine; Thomas Chaney; Zongbo Huang; David Sraer; and David Thesmar

August 2022, 77(4): 2143-81

Journal of Finance

Trade, Merchants and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age  

Gojko Barjamovic; Thomas Chaney; Kerem Cosar; and Ali Hortacsu

August 2019, 134(3): 1455-1503

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investments  

Konrad Burchardi; Thomas Chaney; and Tarek Hassan

July 2019, 86(4): 1448-86

Review of Economic Studies

The Gravity Equation in International Trade: An Explanation  

Thomas Chaney

February 2018, 126(1): 150-77

Journal of Political Economy

Response to Dewitte comment 2022

Quality Pricing-to-Market  

Raphael Auer; Thomas Chaney; and Philip Saure

January 2018, 110: 87-102

Journal of International Economics

Liquidity Constrained Exporters  

Thomas Chaney

November 2016, 72: 141-54

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Networks in International Trade  

Thomas Chaney

Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks

edited by Yann Bramoulle, Andrea Galleoti and Bryan Rogers

April 2016: 754-75

Oxford University Press

The Network Structure of International Trade  

Thomas Chaney

November 2014, 104(11): 3600-34

American Economic Review

Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity  

Thomas Chaney and Ralph Ossa

May 2013, 90(1): 177-80

Journal of International Economics

The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment  

Thomas Chaney; David Sraer; and David Thesmar

October 2012, 102(6): 2381-2409

American Economic Review

Exchange Rate Pass-Through in a Competitive Model of Pricing-to-Market  

Raphael Auer and Thomas Chaney

February 2009, 41(s1): 151-75

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade  

Thomas Chaney

September 2008, 98(4): 1707-21

American Economic Review

In their Shoes 

Marianne Andries; Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Chaney; Milena Djourelova; and Alex Imas

February 2025 | [NBER WP No. 32569] | [CEPR DP No. 19197] 

Quarterly Journal of Economics, revise and resubmit

Trade and the End of Antiquity

Johannes Boehm and Thomas Chaney

November 2024 | [CEPR DP No. 19459] 

Evaluating End-to-End Entity Linking on Domain Specific Knowledge Bases:

Learning about Ancient Technologies from Museum Collections

Sebastian Cadavid-Sanchez; Khalil Kacem; Rafael Aparecido Martins Frade; 

Johannes Boehm; Thomas Chaney; Danial Lashkari; and Daniel Simig

May 2023 | [arXiv 2305.14588]

2024    "Trade and the End of Antiquity"

CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions, Capri

2022    "The Role of Firms in Migration Research"

CESifo Summer Institute, Venice

2019    "Financial Openness and Liberalization in Emerging Economies" 

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai

2019    "International Economics Workshop"

SMU-INSEAD, Singapore

2018    "Global Area Conference"

CESifo, Munich

2017    "Rethinking Competitiveness, Structural Reforms, and Macro Policy"

CEPR/CEBRA/Bank of Italy, Rome

2013    "International Workshop on Networks and Trade" 

University of Leuven

2025: Caltech, USC (West Coast Spatial Workshop), UCLA

2024: USC, University of Chicago, Capri (keynote lecture: Csef-Igier Symposium), Penn State, Harvard/MIT, Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, NYU, Hoover Institution

2023: LSE

2022: Princeton, UCSD, Venice (keynote lecture: CESifo Summer Institute)

2021: NYU, UCLA, Bocconi, Dartmouth, ETH Zurich

2020: UCLA Anderson, Harvard, Duke

2019: Princeton (IES Summer Workshop), University of Chicago, USC, London Business School, Singapore (keynote lecture: SMU-INSEAD trade conference), Shanghai  (keynote lecture: SUFE finance conference)

2018: UCLA, Munich (keynote lecture: CESifo trade conference), Edinburgh, Copenhagen (REStud tour's 30th anniversary), CEPII (Paris)

2017: MIT, Yale, University of Chicago (BFI), Princeton (IES conference), NYU, Brown, Zurich, Paris School of Economics/Sciences Po, INSEAD, Bank of Italy,  CEPR/CEBRA/Bank of Italy (keynote lecture: macro conference), Bank of England

2016: University of Chicago (Neubauer Collegium), MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, Einaudi (Rome), SED (Toulouse)

2015: Northwestern, Chicago Fed, ERWIT (CEPR trade), Trans-pyrenean Macro Conference (CREI-TSE), Paris School of Economics/Sciences Po, Marseille, Gerzensee, USC, Toulouse

2014: Budapest (CEU), Columbia (Econ and GSB), University of  Chicago (BFI), UCL, LSE

2013: Oxford, Yale, CREI (Barcelona), Hong Kong (HKUST), Budapest (CEU), KU Leuven (keynote lecture: networks conference), Mannheim

2012: LBS, LSE, BU, Rochester, UW Madison, NY Fed, Harvard, Princeton (IES), Erasmus-Rotterdam, Louvain-CORE, Zurich, Bilkent-Ankara, Hitotsubashi-Tokyo

2011: University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, UBC Vancouver (2), Penn State, Brown, Sciences Po (Paris), Bocconi, Toulouse

2010: University of Chicago (Stevanovich Center), UQAM, Toulouse, Sciences Po (Paris), NBER SI (trade), Princeton, Wharton, UW Milwaukee, Yale, Toronto, Columbia, IMF, Harvard, MIT, NYU

2009: LBS, LSE, INSEAD, Michigan Ann Arbor, UC San Diego, UCLA

2008: UC Berkeley, San Francisco Fed, Kellogg, Chicago Booth, Princeton, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz

2007: Dartmouth, UBC Vancouver, Paris School of Economics, SED (Prague), Princeton (IES), Board of Governors, Spanish Central Bank, NYU, UC Boulder, UW Madison, Purdue, NBER SI (real estate)

2006: Columbia, University of Chicago, UT Austin, European University Institute, Penn State, Chicago Fed

2005: University of Chicago (Econ and GSB), Harvard, MIT, NYU, Columbia, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UW Madison, UPenn, LSE, Toulouse, BU, BC, INSEAD, Board of Governors, NY Fed, World Bank, NBER SI (trade)

University of Southern California

International Trade Theory (Econ 650, Ph.D.)

Empirical Methods in Economics (Econ 686b, Ph.D.)

Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Econ 305, undergraduate)

Free People, Free Thought, Free Markets (Phil 101, undergraduate)

Sciences Po

International Trade (11029, Ph.D.)

Macroeconomics (16287, School of Public Affairs, M2)

Toulouse School of Economics

Trade and Growth I and II (DEEQA, Ph.D.)

Macroeconomics (L3, Undergraduate)

Topics in Economics (L1, undergraduate)

University of Chicago

Firms and International Trade (Econ 357, Ph.D.)

Macroeconomics (Econ 202, undergraduate)

(Graduation year and initial placement in parenthesis, * if committee chair)

University of Chicago

Stefania Garetto  (2008, Princeton IES Fellow and Boston University)

Abderrahmane Reda Cherif (2008, International Monetary Fund)

Asier Mariscal (2010, University of Alicante)

Marc Teignier-Baque (2010, University of the Basque Country)

Dan Lu (2011, Princeton IES Fellow and Rochester University)

Ferdinando Monte (2011, John Hopkins Carey Business School)

Mehmet Fatih Ulu (2012, Turkish Central Bank)

Anna Wong (2012, US Treasury)

Luke Threinen (2012, Temple University)

Fernando Perez Cervantes (2013, Mexican Central Bank)

Seyedali Madani Zadeh (2013, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran)

Sebastian Sotelo (2014, Michigan Ann Arbor)

Adriaan Ten Kate* (2014, Alvarez & Marsal)

Enghin Atalay (2014, UW Madison)

Toulouse School of Economics

Johanna Schauer* (2016, International Monetary Fund)

Francois de Soyres* (2017, The World Bank)

Shekhar Tomar* (2017, Reserve Bank of India)

Maxime Liegey* (2017, Javeriana University, Colombia)

Simon Fuchs* (2018, Atlanta Fed)

Lan Lan* (2018, University of Oslo)

Sciences Po

Ludovic Panon* (2020, Central Bank of Italy)

Florin Cucu (2020, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Clement Mazet-Sonilhac* (2022, Bocconi)

Stefan Pauly* (2023, International Labor Organization)

University of Southern California

Yukun Ding (2023, International Monetary Fund)

Rajat Kochhar (2023, University of Chicago, Post-Doc)

Yi-Ju Hung* (2024, National Chung Cheng University)

Jingyi Fang* (2024, Minneapolis Fed)

Zheng Zhang* (current)

Daniel Angel* (current)

University of Southern California

USC Spatial/Trade Mini-Conference

March 2024 (co-organized with Monica Morlacco, Andrii Parkhomenko, and Jorge De la Roca)

USC Spatial/Trade Mini-Conference

April 2023 (co-organized with Monica Morlacco and Andrii Parkhomenko)

Sciences Po

International Trade Summer Workshop

June 2022 (co-organized with Johannes Boehm, Isabelle Mejean, and Pierre-Philippe Combes)

REStud Tour 2019

May 2019

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute

New Investigations of Intra- and International Trade

May 2017 (co-organized with Rodrigo Adao, Jonathan Dingel, and Felix Tintelnot)

Understanding Trade Within and Across Countries

April 2016 (co-organized with Felix Tintelnot)

Flows of Goods and Technologies in the Global Economy

April 2015 (co-organized with Felix Tintelnot)

Networks in Macroeconomics and Finance

July 2013 (co-organized with Fernando Alvarez)

Toulouse School of Economics

Economic History Mini-Conference: Trade and History

March 2015 (co-organized with Mohamed Saleh and Christian Hellwig)

University of Southern California

2024- vice-chair of the department of economics

2024-25 chair of the senior recruiting committee

2023-25 chair of the research committee

2023-25 member of the core exams committee

2023-24 chair of the executive committee

2023-24 member of the finance committee

2022-23 co-organizer of the macro seminar

2022-23 co-organizer of the macro reading group

2021-22 member of the senior search committee

2020-21 member of the junior recruiting committee

Sciences Po

2018-19 junior recruiting chair

2016-18 member of the junior and senior recruiting committees

2016-17 co-organizer of the departmental seminar

2016-17 member of the Paris School of International Affairs admissions committee

Toulouse School of Economics

2012-16 member of the junior and senior recruiting committees

2013-14 co-chair of the committee for institutional reform

2013-14 co-chair of the committee for the reform of undergraduate macro teaching

University of Chicago

2007-09 member of the junior recruiting committee

2005-12 member of the Ph.D. admissions committee

American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Micro, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamic and Control, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economica, International Economic Review, Review of World Economics, IMF Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, National Science Foundation, European Research Council...