Industry switching by manufacturing firms and job gains at firms expanding the service sector offset job losses in manufacturing in response to the China trade shock, from Nick Bloom, @kylelhandley, André Kurmann, and Philip A. Luck nber.org/papers/w33098

Georgios Nikolakoudis's (George Nikolakoudis) job market paper examines how production networks create macroeconomic risk when firms operate under incomplete information. nikolakoudis.com/JMP.pdf

Alejandro Sabal's (Alejandro Sabal) job market paper explores how product entry shapes the impact of national protectionist subsidies on global market outcomes in the automobile industry. docs.google.com/viewer?url=htt…

We have released new yearly measures of local GDP at the 1, 0.5, and 0.25 degree level. They are calculated using remote sensing data and a random forest model. All the data, documentation, and tests can be mapped and downloaded here: bfidatastudio.org/project/local-…

New version of "Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output" with Hugo Lhuillier. We characterize the equity-efficiency trade-off (rising inequality vs. efficiency gains) that comes with outsourcing domestic workers.

I am looking for one or two pre-docs to work with me at HEC Paris on historical patent data. Hopefully an exciting opportunity to develop quantitative skills in a nice research environment. See the position here dropbox.com/scl/fi/3obf3vc… Thanks for sharing !

My new paper (essay?) explores how labor market institutions may affect not just unemployment & wages... -but also productivity & growth, -especially in Europe (vs. the US). -Potential channel: "dynamism." Based on my talk and paper at the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra.

Just how much US income inequality has increased and why it is growing is a topic of intense debate among economists. We spoke with Matthieu Gomez of Columbia Economics about what's really behind the rise in top incomes. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/incom…

When knowledge spillovers are local, firms may under-invest in geographic expansion. This is studied using a spatial growth model, and detailed data on US firms, from Craig A. Chikis, Benny Kleinman, and Marta Prato nber.org/papers/w34010

Thank you Becker Friedman Institute for Economics for this summary of my research on the root of local wage inequality!

New paper: "What Does Consulting Do?" w/ Gert Bijnens, Simon Jäger Consulting is a storied but opaque industry. Our VAT-based B2B data permit the 1st comprehensive study: Which firms buy consulting? What happens when they do? nber.org/papers/w34072 eml.berkeley.edu/~schoefer/scho…