CV
curriculum vitae
contact
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USC Dornsife
Department of Economics (KAP 364B)
3620 South Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0253
personal
born: 11 May, 1977
citizen of France, US permanent resident (green card)
education
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
academic positions
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)
professional positions
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
visiting positions
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
other positions
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
awards
2024 elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.
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.
publications
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
(Stephen Terryⓡ; Thomas Chaneyⓡ; Konrad Burchardiⓡ; Lisa Tarquinioⓡ; and Tarek Hassanⓡ)
May 2024 | [PDF] | [Immigration Instruments]
American Economic Review conditionally accepted
(Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Chaney; Tarek Hassan; and Aakaash Rao)
February 2024, 114(2): 348-84 | [PDF] | [Data/Code] | [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
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
(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
November 2016, 72: 141-54 | [PDF] | [BibTeX]
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ©2016 by Elsevier
Networks in International Trade
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
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
September 2008, 98(4): 1707-21 | [PDF] | [Appendix] | [BibTeX]
American Economic Review ©2008 by the American Economic Association
working papers
Trade and the End of Antiquity
(Johannes Boehm and Thomas Chaney)
August 2024 | [PDF] | [CEPR DP No. 19459]
(Marianne Andries; Leonardo Bursztyn; Thomas Chaney; and Milena Djourelova)
June 2024 | [PDF] | [NBER WP No. 32569] | [CEPR DP No. 19197]
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] | [arXiv 2305.14588]
keynotes / plenary lectures
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.
presentations
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).
teaching experience
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).
dissertation supervision
(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)
organization of conferences
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)
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)
institutional service
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.
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.
refereeing
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...