Who Can Produce What? Firm Capabilities and Product Entry
Supplemental Appendix
Product Space Data
(with Luca Macedoni and Vlad Tyazhelnikov)
Which firms supply which products? Modeling multi-product firms under heterogeneous markups, we recover firms costs for produced products and develop an
algorithm inspired by recommender systems to predict costs for unproduced products. Lower predicted costs imply increased product adoption and identify which
firms enter when export demand rises, including firms crossing broad product classifications. We use these counterfactual costs to quantify how reductions in fixed and
marginal costs induce product entry and lower price indices. In a price-stabilization
exercise following a cost shock, entry subsidies can cost less than subsidies to incumbents, particularly for smaller shocks when capable potential entrants remain
available.
Can R&D Subsidies Spread Growth?
(with Elodie Andrieu)
Do R&D subsidies spread growth beyond recipient firms? We study France’s Crédit d’Impôt Recherche, exploiting quasi-experimental variation in subsidy access generated by the certification of R&D consultancies. IV estimates show that subsidies increase technical employment with an elasticity of .16, technical wages with an elasticity of .14 and non-technical employment with an elasticity of .09, pointing to increased demand for technical workers. This spreads along the value chain to unsubsidized firms, where employment responses for technical workers are half as large as the direct effects, spreading growth and innovation related activity.
The Comparative Advantage of Firms
(with Johannes
Boehm, Swati
Dhingra)
J of Political
Economy (Lead Article)
Monopolistic
Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity
Awarded the Chair Jacquemin Prize
J of Political Economy
(with Swati Dhingra)
Learning About the Prospects for Mobility:
Economic and
Political Dynamics Following Fundamental Policy Reform
(with Michael
Carter)
J of Public Economics
Firm Productivity Differences from Factor Markets
(with Wenya Cheng)
J of
Industrial Economics
Efficiency
in Large Markets with Firm Heterogeniety
(with Swati Dhingra)
Research in Economics
Product
Diversification in Indian Manufacturing
(with Johannes
Boehm, Swati Dhingra)
in New Developments in Global Sourcing
"Resting" Projects
Benford’s Law, Families of Distributions, and a Test Basis
CEP Discussion Paper No 1291
The Political Economy of Inclusive Growth
(with Michael
Carter)
Is
Skill Dispersion a Source of Productivity and Exporting in Developing
Countries?