Research Scientist at IAE-CSIC, visiting the Northwestern Economics Dept. during the 2025 Spring quarter
Email marti.mestieri@iae.csic.es
Curriculum CV
Research Profiles Google Scholar IDEAS/RePEC
Research Interests Macroeconomic and International Trade Aspects of Economic Development, Economic Growth, International Trade.
Address
Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC);
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Campus;
Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
Upcoming Workshops that I co-organize this spring in Barcelona:
at IAE, March 21st, Program
at BSE Summer Forum , June 17 and 18, Program
at BSE Summer Forum, June 18, Program
Consider contributing to YingHua He memorial fund for graduate fellowships
Economic Geography and Structural Change with Heterothetic Cobb-Douglas Preferences, with Clement Bohr and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud. Supersedes the papers Economic Geography and Structural Change Heterothetic Cobb-Douglas: Theory and Applications, CEPR WP which contains some additional results.
Aggregation and Closed-Form Results for Nonhomothetic CES Preferences with Clement Bohr and Emre Enes Yavuz, CEPR WP.
Wealth Distribution and Human Capital: How Do Borrowing Constraints Shape Schooling Systems?
More Trade, Less Diffusion: Technology Transfers and the Dynamic Effects of Import Liberalization with Ruben Gaetani and Gustavo de Souza.
Income-Driven Labor-Market Polarization with Diego Comin and Ana Danieli,
online appendix, first version: July 2020, last update: Nov. 2022. Revise and Resubmit,
The Stable Transformation Path
with Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Daniel O’Connor,
online appendix. Revise and Resubmit,
Global Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from 100 years of World Patent Data. Full Online Appendix. File containing Fields of Knowledge Classification of International Patent Codes. This work was cited in Chapter 6 of the 2024 CEA Report.
The Structural Transformation of Innovation with Diego Comin and Danial Lashkari.
Heterogeneous Trade Costs and Wage Inequality: A Model of Two Globalizations, with Sergi Basco.
Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences, with Diego Comin.
Mergers along the Global Supply Chain: Information Technologies and Routine Tasks, with Sergi Basco.
Human Capital Accumulation and Occupational Choice: Implications for Economic Development, with Johanna Schauer and Robert Townsend.
If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?, with Diego Comin.
The World Income Distribution: The Effects of International Unbundling of Production, with Sergi Basco.
Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price Effects, with Diego Comin and Danial Lashkari.
The Effect of Import Competition across Occupations, with Sergi Basco, Maxime Liegey and Gabriel Smagghue.
Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network: Evidence from Multinational Enterprises, with Sergi Basco, Giulia Felice and Bruno Merlevede.
Technological Waves, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Growth, with Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani. Forthcoming,
Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data for the U.S., with Bart Hobijn, Nicolas Werquin and Jing Zhang.
Import Competition and Labor Regulation: Worker-Level Evidence, with Sergi Basco, Maxime Liegey and Gabriel Smagghue.
What Goods do Countries Trade?, with Danial Lashkari.
Micro Assignment and Macro Elasticities, with Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati.
Jobless Industrialization, with Laura Alfaro, Marcela Eslava and Felipe Saenz.
Persistence of Inequality after Apartheid: Assessing the Role of Geography and Skills, with Kristina Manysheva and Johanna Schauer.
Scale and Skill, with Diego Comin and Matthew Dey.
Step-by-step derivations for Nonhomothetic CES
Guest Lecture on Structural Change and Nonhomothetic CES at U Chicago Ec 376
Sample Code to Estimate Nonhomothetic CES on Synthetic Data
Dataset of Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data for the US; Data Documentation