Antonin BERGEAUD

Associate Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

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

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)

Working from home and corporate real estate

Regional Science and Urban Economics, March 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)

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, 5 October 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)

Proceedings

Working papers

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 Series , 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

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

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

The innovation premium to soft skills in low-skilled occupations

Centre for Economic Policy 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

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, May 2024, vol. 16, n° 2, pp 249-269, (in coll. with P. AGHION, M. LEQUIEN, M. MELITZ, T. ZUBER)

Proximity of firms to scientific production

Annals of Economics and Statistics, March 2024, vol. 153, pp 105-134, (in coll. with A. GUILLOUZOUIC)

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)

Proceedings

Working papers

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

Center for Economic Policy Analysis_CEPA Discussion Series , 2025

Natural Language Processing and Innovation Research

NBER Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research , 2025

Exporting Ideas: Knowledge Flows from Expanding Trade in Goods

CEPR Discussion Series , 2024

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

European Central Bank - Eurosystem , 2024

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

    • Awards & honors

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