Born: 11 May, 1977

Citizen of France, US permanent resident (green card)

Married to Marianne Andries

Two children: Gaspard (2005) and Leo [Léon] (2008)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in Economics, 2005

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

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

M.A. in Economics, 2000

University of Southern California, Dornsife Department of Economics

Professor of Economics, since 2021

Sciences Po, Department of Economics

Associated Professor of Economics, since 2021

Professor of Economics, 2016-2021

Toulouse School of Economics

Professor of Economics, 2012-2016

University of Chicago, Department of Economics

Assistant Professor and Thornber Research Fellow, 2005-2013 (on leave 2008-09 and 2012-13)

Review of Economic Studies

Joint Managing Editor, since 2019

Member of the Board of Directors, 2018

Member of the Board of Editors, 2013-2018

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, 2008-2009

London School of Economics

Visiting Researcher, 2002-2003

Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Research Fellow, since 2015 (International Trade and Regional Economics)

Research Affiliate, 2009-2015 (International Trade and Regional Economics)

CESifo Research Network

Research Fellow, since 2018 (Global Economy)

Institut d'Economie Industrielle (IDEI, Toulouse)

Research Associate, 2012-2016

Banque de France

Research Department Consultant, 2012-2016

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Faculty Research Fellow, 2006-2013 (International Trade and Investment)

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Research Department Consultant, 2006-2012

2020-2025        ERC Advanced Grant 884847-HTMG (Historical Migrations, Trade and Growth).

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

2013-2018        ERC Starting Grant 337272-FiNet (Firm Networks, Trade and Growth).

2011-2014        NSF Grant SES-1061622 (The Network Structure of International Trade).

2008-2009        Kenen Fellowship, Princeton.

2005-2012        Thornber Research Fellowship, University of Chicago.

2005             Review of Economic Studies European Tour.

2005             Robert M. Solow Prize for Graduate Student Excellence, MIT.

2002-2003        European Commission Grant.

2000-2002        MIT, Graduate Fellowship.

1997-2001        Ecole Normale Supérieure, Full Fellowship.

The Immigrant Next Door

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

February 2024, 114(2): 348-84 | [PDF] | [NBER WP No. 28448] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX] 

American Economic Review ©2024 by the American Economic Association

Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints  

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

August 2022, 77(4): 2143-81 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX] 

Journal of Finance ©2022 by the American Finance Association

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 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX] 

Quarterly Journal of Economics ©2019 by the Oxford University Press

Migrants, Ancestors and Foreign Investments  

(Konrad Burchardi; Thomas Chaney; and Tarek Hassan)

July 2019, 86(4): 1448-86 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [Ancestry Instruments] | [BibTeX] 

Review of Economic Studies ©2019 by the Oxford University Press

The Gravity Equation in International Trade: An Explanation  

(Thomas Chaney)

February 2018, 126(1): 150-77 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]

Journal of Political Economy ©2018 by the University of Chicago

Response to Dewitte comment 2022

Quality Pricing-to-Market  

(Raphael Auer; Thomas Chaney; and Philip Saure)

January 2018, 110: 87-102 | [PDF] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]

Journal of International Economics ©2018 by Elsevier

Liquidity Constrained Exporters  

(Thomas Chaney)

November 2016, 72: 141-54 | [PDF] | [BibTeX]

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ©2016 by Elsevier

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 | [PDF] | [BibTeX]

Oxford University Press ©2016 by the Oxford University Press

The Network Structure of International Trade  

(Thomas Chaney)

November 2014, 104(11): 3600-34 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]

American Economic Review ©2014 by the American Economic Association

Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity  

(Thomas Chaney and Ralph Ossa)

May 2013, 90(1): 177-80 | [PDF] | [BibTeX]

Journal of International Economics ©2013 by Elsevier

The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment  

(Thomas Chaney; David Sraer; and David Thesmar)

October 2012, 102(6): 2381-2409 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX] 

American Economic Review ©2012 by the American Economic Association

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

(Raphael Auer and Thomas Chaney)

February 2009, 41(s1): 151-75 | [PDF] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking ©2009 by the Ohio State University

Distorted Gravity: The Intensive and Extensive Margins of International Trade  

(Thomas Chaney)

September 2008, 98(4): 1707-21 | [PDF] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]

American Economic Review ©2008 by the American Economic Association

In their Shoes 

(Marianne Andries; Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Chaney; and Milena Djourelova)

December 2023 | [PDF]

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth 

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

May 2023 | [PDF] | [NBER WP No. 27075] | [CEPR DP No. 14719] | [Immigration Instruments]

American Economic Review Revise and Resubmit 2nd round

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 | [PDF]

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.

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.).

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* (on the job market, 2023-24)

Zheng Zhang* (current)

Daniel Angel* (current)

University of Southern California

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

2023-24 : Chair of the Executive Committee.

2022-23 : Co-Organizer of the Macro Seminar.

2021-22 : 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.

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