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Antonin BERGEAUD

Associate Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

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Biography

Antonin Bergeaud is a specialist in economic growth and innovation. His research focuses on the long-run determinants of GDP evolution, whether through the study of sources of heterogeneity between firms, the creation and diffusion of innovations, or the dynamics of productivity.

Antonin received his PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2018 and is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique. Prior to working at HEC, he was a research economist at the Banque de France

Scientific articles

Télétravail et productivité avant, pendant et après la pandémie de Covid‑19 / Telework and Productivity Before, During and After the COVID-19 Crisis

Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2023, vol. 539, pp 73-89, (in coll. with G. CETTE, S. DRAPALA)

Global value chains and domestic innovation

Research Policy, April 2023, vol. 52, n° 3, (in coll. with K. Ito, K. Ikeuchi, C. Criscuolo, J. Timmis)

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

Review of Economic Studies, November 2023, vol. 90, n° 6, pp 2675-2702, (in coll. with P. AGHION, T. BOPPART, P. J. KLENOW, H. LI)

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

American Economic Review, November 2023, vol. 113, n° 11, pp 2894-2936, (in coll. with P. AGHION, J. VAN REENEN)

Réflexions sur la productivité / Thoughts on productivity

Futuribles, July-August 2022, vol. 449, n° 4, pp 55-67, (in coll. with G. Cette, R. Lecat)

Recruitment Difficulties and Firms’ Characteristics: An Analysis of French Company Data

Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, October 5th 2022, vol. 534-35, pp 43-59, (in coll. with G. CETTE, J. STARY)

Adjustment Costs and Factor Demand: New Evidence from Firms’ Real Estate

Economic Journal, January 2021, vol. 131, n° 633, pp 70-100, (in coll. with S. Ray)

Convergence of GDP per capita in advanced countries over the twentieth century

Empirical Economics, November 2020, vol. 59, n° 5, pp 2509-2526, (in coll. with G. Cette, R. Lecat)

Innovation and Top Income Inequality

Review of Economic Studies, January 2019, vol. 86, n° 1, pp 1-45, (in coll. with P. Aghion, U. Akcigit, R. Blundell, D. Hemous)

Missing Growth from Creative Destruction

American Economic Review, August 2019, vol. 109, n° 8, pp 2795-2822, (in coll. with P. Aghion, T. Boppart, P. J. Klenow, H. Li)

Proceedings

Working papers

Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock: Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?

NBER Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research , 2021

Technological change and domestic outsourcing

Centre for Economic Performance , 2021

The impact of Regulation on Innovation”

NBER Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research , 2021

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

NBER Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research , 2019

The Heterogeneous Impact of Market Size on Innovation: Evidence from French Firm-Level Exports

NBER Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research , 2018

Scientific articles

Telework and productivity: insights from an original survey

Applied Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 31, n° 19, pp 2026-2029, (in coll. with G. Cette, S. Drapala)

The Heterogeneous Impact of Market Size on Innovation: Evidence from French Firm-Level Exports

Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2024, vol. 106, n° 3, pp 608-626, (in coll. with P. AGHION, M. LEQUIEN, M. MELITZ)

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

Review of Economic Studies, November 2023, vol. 90, n° 6, pp 2675-2702, (in coll. with P. AGHION, T. BOPPART, P. J. KLENOW, H. LI)

Difficultés de recrutement des entreprises : une analyse économique comparative

Futuribles, March - April 2023, vol. 453, n° 2, pp 77-87, (in coll. with G. Cette)

Proceedings

Working papers

The wage of temporary agency workers

Centre for Economic Performance , 2024

China at the technological frontier

Centre for Economic Performance , 2023

Education

  • Ph.D. in Economics, École d'économie de Paris (Paris School of Economics) - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2022- Associate Professor, Economics and Decision Science HEC Paris
  • 2022- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris, GREGHEC HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Editorial activities

  • Econometrica; Quarterly Journal of Economics; American Economic Review Insight; Economic Journal; Journal of European Economic Association; Quantitative Economics; European Economic Review; PLOS ONE; Journal of Industrial Organization; Economics of Transition; Political Studies; Review of Economic Dynamics; International Productivity Monitor; Economic Bulletin; Revue Economique