Previously discussed papers (reverse chronological order):
"Scalable versus Productive Technologies" by Joachim Hubmer, Mons Chan, Serdar Ozkan, Sergio Salgado, and Guangbin Hong
"The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data" by Dominick Bartelme, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, and Andres Rodriguez-Clare
"Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover" by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, and Jean-Felix Brouillette (2025)
"Markups and Inequality" by Corina Boar and Virgiliu Midrigan (2023)
"Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy" (2018) by David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr
"The wealth of stagnation: Falling growth, rising valuations" (2025) by James Paron
"The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope" (2024) by Xian Jiang and Hannah Rubinton
"Economic Growth and the Rise of Large Firms" (2023) by Zhang Chen
“Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy" (2024) by Maarten De Ridder
“Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution" (2024) by Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Lint Barrage, and David Hemous.
“Immigration, Innovation, and Growth" (2024) by Stephen Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, and Tarek Hassan
“The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Economic Growth” (2022) by Marta Prato
"Patents to products: Product innovation and firm dynamics" by David Argente, Salome Baslandze, Douglas Hanley, and Sara Moreira
"Spillovers and the Direction of Innovation: An Application to the Clean Energy Transition" by Eric Donald
"Cross-border Patenting, Globalization, and Development" by Jesse LaBelle, Inmaculada Martınez-Zarzoso, Ana Maria Santacreu, and Yoto V. Yotov
"The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriations Shocks" by Andrew Fieldhouse and Karel Mertens
"Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-In and Entrant Leapfrogging" by Richard Hornbeck, Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu, Anders Humlum, and Martin Rotemberg (2024)
"The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" by Daron Acemoglu (2024)
"Growth through Innovation Bursts" by Giuseppe Berlingieri, Maarten De Ridder, Danial Lashkari, and Davide Rigo (2024)
"Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World" by Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding, and Moto Yogo (2024)
“The Creativity Decline: Evidence from U.S. Patents” by Aakash Kalyani (2024)
“Misallocation and Asset Prices ” by Winston Wei Dou, Yan Ji, Di Tian & Pengfei Wang (2024)
“The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D” by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Larisa C. Cioaca, Lia Sheer, and Hansen Zhang (2023)
“Knowledge is (Market) Power” by Jinglun Yao (2023)
“Embracing the Future or Building on the Past? Growth with New and Old Technologies” by Bernardo Ribeiro (2023)
“Concentration, Market Power, and Misallocation: The Role of Endogenous Customer Acquisition” by Hassan Afrouzi, Andres Drenik, and Ryan Kim (2023)
“Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea” by Nathan Lane (2022)
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Markup Estimation” by Maarten De Ridder, Basile Grassi, and Giovanni Morzenti (2022)
“Innovation and Production in the Global Economy” by Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple (2018)
“One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains” by Rick Hornbeck and Trevor Logan (2023)
“The Neoclassical Growth of China” by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Lee Ohanian, and Wen Yao (2023)
“Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?” by Daron Acemoglu (2023)
“Supplier Churn and Growth: A Micro-to-Macro Analysis” by David R. Baqaee, Ariel Burstein and Cedric Duprez (2022)
“Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation” by Stephie Fried (2022)
“Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation, and Endogenous Market Structure” by Laurent Cavenaile, Murat Alp Celik, Pau Roldan-Blanco, and Xu Tian (2022)
“Monopsony in the US Labor Market” by Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso, and Brad Hershbein (2022)
“Entrepreneurial Human Capital and Firm Dynamics” by Francisco Queiro (2022)
“Inequality and Measured Growth” by Ezra Oberfield (2023)
“The Effects of Startup Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth” by Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco and Tom Schmitz (2023)
“R&D Return Dispersion and Economic Growth: The Case of Inventor Market Power” by Nils Lehr (2022)
“Additive Growth” by Thomas Philippon (2022)
“Rising Markups or Changing Technology?” by Lucia S. Foster, John C. Haltiwanger and Cody Tuttle (2022)
“Propagation and Amplication of Local Productivity Spillovers” by Xavier Giroud, Simone Lenzuy, Quinn Maingiz and Holger Muellerx (2022)
“On the Direction of Innovation” by Hugo Hopenhayn and Francesco Squintani (2021)
“Labor Market Dynamics when Ideas are Harder to Find” by Adrien Bilal, Nikolas Engbom, Simon Mongey, and Gianluca Violante (2021)
“Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth” by Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley (2022)
“Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?” by Corina Boar, Denis Gorea, and Virgiliu Midrigan (2021)
“A Framework for Economic Growth with Capital-Embodied Technical Change” by Benjamin Jones and Xiaojie Liu (2022)
“Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion” by Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo (2022)
“Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations” by Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr (2018)
“Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy” by Ernest Liu and Song Ma (2021)
“Misallocation and Growth” by Boyan Jovanovic (2014)
“Misallocation and Inequality” by Nezih Guner and Alessandro Ruggieri (2022)
“Optimal Tax and R&D Policies” by Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and Stefanie Stantcheva (2022)
“Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation” by Gideon Bornstein and Alessandra Peters (2022)
“Population Growth and Firm Dynamics” by Michael Peters and Conor Walsh (2021)
“Are Markups Too High? Competition, Strategic Innovation, and Industry Dynamics” by Laurent Cavenaile, Murat Alp Celik and Xu Tian (2021)
“Endogenous Growth and Optimal Market Growth” by Maria Voronina (2021)
“Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation, Misallocation and Aggregate TFP?” by Joel David, Lukas Schmid and David Zeke (2021)
“Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth” by Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Noah Stoffman (2017)
“Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry” by Nick Bloom, Mark Schankerman, and John Van Reenen (2013)
“Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier” by Jess Benhabib, Jesse Perla and Chris Tonetti (2021)
“From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?” by Michael Konig, Zheng Michael Song, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti (2020)
“Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy and Growth” by Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde (2021)
“Aggregation Implications of Innovation Policy” by Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein (2019)
“Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China” by Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Daniel Yi Xu (2021)
“Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?” by Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson (2008)
“Good Dispersion, Bad Dispersion” by Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent (2020)
“Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production” by Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield (2021)
“Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries” by Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp and Michael Peters (2021)
“Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development” by Tiago V. Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno S. Martins and Cezar Santos (2021)
“Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-Level Data” by Virgiliu Midrigan and Daniel Yi Xu (2014)
“Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe” by Gita Gopinath, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Loukas Karabarbounis and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (2017)
“How Costly are Markups?” by Chris Edmond, Virgiliu Midrigan and Daniel Yi Xu (2021)
“Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity under Firm Heterogeneity” by Swati Dhingra and John Morrow (2019)
“Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection” by Eric Bartelsman, John Haltiwanger and Stefano Scarpetta (2013)