Geography and Trade

• Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation (Grant, M., Startz, M., Unpublished Manuscript, 2025) Slides

• Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages (Felix, M., Unpublished Manuscript, 2022) Original slides

• Human Capital Accumulation Across Space, (Desmet, K., Nagy D. K., and Rossi-Hansberg, E. Unpublished Manuscript, 2025). Slides 

Growth and Innovation

• The Diffusion of New Technologies (Kalyani, A., Bloom, N., Carvalho, M., Hassan, T., Lerner, J., Tahoun, Ahmed,The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140(2), 1299-1365) Slides

• The middle-income trap from a Schumpeterian perspective (Aghion, P., Bircan, C., Unpublished Manuscript, 2017) Slides

Background readings:

1. Aghion, P., Akcigit, U., Howitt, P., (2014). “What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?". Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 2, Pages 515-563

• Lock-In and Productive Innovations: Implications for Firm-to-Firm Innovation Pass-Through (Casal, L., Unpublished Manuscript, 2025) Slides

• The Mandarin Model of Growth (Song, Z., Xiong, W., Unpublished Manuscript, 2024) Slides

• Drive Down the Cost: Learning by Doing and Government Policies in the Global EV Battery Industry, (Barwick, Kwon, Li, and Zahur, Unpublished Manuscript, 2025) Slides 

Labor and Migration

• Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil (Imbert, C., Ulyssea, G., Unpublished Manuscript, 2025) Slides

• Supply, demand, institutions, and firms: A theory of labor market sorting and the wage distribution (Haanwinckel, D., American Economic Review, 2025, 115(12), 4137–82)

Structural transformation

• Growing Like India-the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth, (Fan, T., Peters, E., Zilibotti, F. Econometrica 2023, 91(4), 1457-1494) Slides

• From Street Markets to Shopping Malls: the Transformation of the Service Sector, (Schwarztman , M., Unpublished Manuscript, 2025) Slides

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