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

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)

Coase Lecture - The Inverted-U Relationship Between Credit Access and Productivity Growth

Economica, January 2019, vol. 86, n° 341, pp 1-31, (in coll. with P. Aghion, G. Cette, R. Lecat, H. Maghin)

Firm Dynamics and Growth Measurement in France

Journal of the European Economic Association, August 2018, vol. 16, n° 4, pp 933-956, (in coll. with P. Aghion, T. Boppart, S. Bunel)

The role of production factor quality and technology diffusion in twentieth-century productivity growth

Cliometrica, January 2018, vol. 12, n° 1, pp 61-97, (in coll. with G. Cette, R. Lecat)

Total Factor Productivity in Advanced Countries: A Long-term Perspective

International Productivity Monitor, 2017, vol. 32, n° 6, (in coll. with G. CETTE, R. LECAT)

Classifying patents based on their semantic content

PLOS One, 2017, vol. 12, n° 4, pp e0176310, (in coll. with Y. Potiron, J. Raimbault)

Productivity Trends in Advanced Countries between 1890 and 2012

Review of Income and Wealth, September 2016, vol. 62, n° 3, pp 420-444, (in coll. with G. Cette, R. Lecat)

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

Proximity of firms to scientific production

Annals of Economics and Statistics, June 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)

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)

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)

Proceedings

Working papers

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

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