Inflation inequality: Measurement, causes, and policy implications

X Jaravel - Annual Review of Economics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature
on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in …

Quantitative spatial economics

SJ Redding, E Rossi-Hansberg - Annual Review of Economics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by
variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between …

The US-China trade war and global reallocations

P Fajgelbaum, P Goldberg, P Kennedy… - American Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
The US-China trade war created net export opportunities rather than simply shifting trade
across destinations. Many “bystander” countries grew their exports of taxed products into the …

Distorted innovation: does the market get the direction of technology right?

D Acemoglu - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In the presence of markup differences, externalities, and other social effects, the direction of
innovation can be systematically distorted. I build a simple model of endogenous technology …

Demographics and automation

D Acemoglu, P Restrepo - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial)
automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual …

What can be learned from spatial economics?

S Proost, JF Thisse - Journal of Economic Literature, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial
distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …

International trade and innovation

U Akcigit, M Melitz - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We provide a review of the recent literature–both theoretical and empirical–analyzing the
multi-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model …

Engel's law in the global economy: Demand‐induced patterns of structural change, innovation, and trade

K Matsuyama - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endogenous demand composition across sectors due to income elasticity differences, or
Engel's Law for brevity, affects (i) sectoral compositions in employment and in value …

Data-intensive innovation and the State: evidence from AI firms in China

M Beraja, DY Yang, N Yuchtman - The Review of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology requires data. In many domains,
government data far exceed in magnitude and scope data collected by the private sector …

Trade and geography

SJ Redding - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …