Antonin BERGEAUD

Associate Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

bergeaud@hec.fr https://sites.google.com/site/abergeaudeco

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

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Scientific articles

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

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

Working from home and corporate real estate

Regional Science and Urban Economics, June 2023, vol. 99, pp 103878, (in coll. with J.-B. Eyméoud, T. Garcia, D. Henricot)

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)

Identifying technology clusters based on automated patent landscaping

PLOS One, December 2023, vol. 18, n° 12, pp e0295587, (in coll. with C. VERLUISE)

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)

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

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

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)

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Proceedings

Working papers

Exporting Ideas: Knowledge Flows from Expanding Trade in Goods

CEPR Discussion Papers , 2024

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy support on productivity

European Central Bank - Eurosystem , 2024

The wage of temporary agency workers

Centre for Economic Performance , 2024

China at the technological frontier

Centre for Economic Performance , 2023

Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers

IZA Institute of Labor Economics , 2023

From public labs to private firms: magnitude and channels of R&D spillovers

CEPR Discussion Papers , 2022

Patents that Match your Standards: Firm-level Evidence on Competition and Growth

Banque de France Working Paper , 2022

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

Scientific articles

Technological Change and Domestic Outsourcing

Journal of Labor Economics, June 2025, vol. 43, n° 4, pp 1135-1168, (in coll. with C. MALGOUYRES, C. MAZET-SONILHAC , S. SIGNORELLI)

¿Cuál es el futuro de la productividad? [What is the future of productivity?]

Oikonomics, November 2024, vol. 23, (in coll. with G. CETTE)

A new Dataset to Study a Century of Innovation in Europe and in the US

Research Policy, January 2024, vol. 53, n° 1, pp 104903, (in coll. with C. VERLUISE)

Opposing firm-level responses to the China shock: horizontal competition versus vertical relationships

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, June 2024, vol. 16, n° 2, pp 249-269, (in coll. with P. AGHION, M. LEQUIEN, M. MELITZ, T. ZUBER)

Books

Proceedings

Working papers

The Aggregate Consequences of Local Capital Taxation

CEPR Discussion Papers , 2026

Good Rents versus Bad Rents: R&D Misallocation and Growth

National Bureau of Economic Research , 2025

Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development

Faculty of Economics and Business_FEB Research Insitute , 2025

Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development

CEPR Discussion Papers , 2025

Education

2018
Ph.D. in Economics, École d'économie de Paris (Paris School of Economics) - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

2026- Academic Director, LIFT_Laboratoire de l’Innovation et du Futur du Travail HEC Paris
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

Awards & honors

2025 2025 Best Young Economist Award
2025 2025 HEC Foundation researcher award