Published/Forthcoming

Hornbeck, Richard, and Martin Rotemberg (2024). Growth Off the Rails:  Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies. PDF Journal of Political Economy, 132 (11): 3547–3602. Additional Materials. Cleaned County/Industry data for 1860-1880.

Traiberman, Sharon and Martin Rotemberg (2023). Precautionary Protectionism. Journal of International Economics, 145: 103836. Working Paper PDF. Additional Materials

Martin Rotemberg. 2019. Equilibrium Effects of Firm Subsidies. American Economic Review, 109 (10): 3475-3513. Working Paper PDF. Additional Materials

Gozen, Ruveyda, Richard Hornbeck, Anders Humlum, and Martin Rotemberg (2025). Historical Differences in Female-Owned Manufacturing Establishments:  The United States, 1850--1880. AEA Papers & Proceedings, 115: 483–88 PDF

Working Papers

Nishida, Mitsukuni, Amil Petrin, Martin Rotemberg, and T. Kirk White (2026).  Are We Undercounting Reallocation's Contribution to Growth? PDF. Resubmitted, Review of Economic Dynamics

Liu, Jin, Sharon Traiberman and Martin Rotemberg (2026). Sabotage as Industrial Policy. PDF Resubmitted, Economic Journal

Bau, Natalie, Martin Rotemberg, Bryce Millett Steinberg, and Manisha Shah (2025). Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor. PDF. Resubmitted, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics 

Hornbeck, Richard, Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu, Anders Humlum, and Martin Rotemberg (2025). Gaining Steam:  Technology Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging. PDF. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy. Cleaned Census of Manufactures establishment-level data for 1850-1880.

Madsen, Erik, Sharon Traiberman, Martin Rotemberg, and Shizhuo Wang (2025).  Tariffs and State Capacity: A Specific Example. PDF

Kim, Hang, Martin Rotemberg, and T. Kirk White (2025). Manufacturing Dispersion: How Data Cleaning Choices Affect Measured Misallocation and Productivity Growth in the Annual Survey of Manufactures. PDF. Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review

Works in Progress (in presentation mode):

Cockriel, William and Martin Rotemberg (2026). Medium Frequency Trading and the Telephone

Acosta, Miguel, Lydia Cox, Andrew Greenland, John Lopresti, Christopher M. Meissner, Martin Rotemberg, and Sharon Traiberman (2026). US Tariff Policy Since 1789. Under preparation for the Journal of Economic Perspectives 

Deshpande, Arnav, Martin Rotemberg, and Sharon Traiberman (2026). Chasing Demand. Under preparation for the IMF Economic Review