Martí Mestieri’s Research Page

Research Scientist at IAE-CSIC, visiting the Northwestern Economics Dept. during the 2025 Spring quarter

Email   marti.mestieri@iae.csic.es

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Research Interests Macroeconomic 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

  1. Bellaterra Growth Workshop

    March 21st, Program

  2. Growth and Productivity Workshop

    at BSE Summer Forum , June 17 and 18, Call for papers

  3. Macro-Development Workshop

    at BSE Summer Forum, June 18, Call for papers

Consider contributing to YingHua He memorial fund for graduate fellowships

Working Papers

  1. 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.

  2. Aggregation and Closed-Form Results for Nonhomothetic CES Preferences with Clement Bohr and Emre Enes Yavuz, CEPR WP.

  3. Wealth Distribution and Human Capital: How Do Borrowing Constraints Shape Schooling Systems?

  4. More Trade, Less Diffusion: Technology Transfers and the Dynamic Effects of Import Liberalization with Ruben Gaetani and Gustavo de Souza.

Submitted Papers or Under Revision

  1. Income-Driven Labor-Market Polarization with Diego Comin and Ana Danieli, online appendix, first version: July 2020, last update: Nov. 2022. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies.

  2. The Stable Transformation Path with Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Daniel O’Connor, online appendix. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies.

  3. 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.

  4. Import Competition and Labor Regulation: Worker-Level Evidence with Sergi Basco, Maxime Liegey and Gabriel Smagghue.

Publications

  1. Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data for the U.S. with Bart Hobijn, Nicolas Werquin and Jing Zhang. Accepted at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives.

    Dataset of Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data; Data construction Documentation

  2. Technological Waves, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Growth with Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani, first version: Dec. 2021, last update: Sept. 2024. Forthcoming, JPE: Macro.

  3. Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network: Evidence from Multinational Enterprises with Sergi Basco, Giulia Felice and Bruno Merlevede, first version: April 2023, last update: January 2024. Journal of International Economics, November 2024.

  4. The Effect of Import Competition across Occupations with Sergi Basco, Maxime Liegey and Gabriel Smagghue, online appendix first version: July 2021, last update: Dec. 2023. Journal of International Economics, January 2025.

  5. Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price Effects with Diego Comin and Danial Lashkari, Econometrica, January 2021, vol. 89(1), p. 311-374. Online appendix. 2018 draft version (lighter theory with different notation). Awarded a Wiley Certificate of Achievement for being among the 2021-2022 top cited and downloaded articles in Econometrica.

    Step-by-step derivations for Nonhomothetic CES

    Sample Code to Estimate Nonhomothetic CES on Synthetic Data

  6. The World Income Distribution: The Effects of International Unbundling of Production, with Sergi Basco, online appendix, supplemental material, replication files. Journal of Economic Growth, May 2019, 24(2), 189-221. Extension Studying Unbundling and Within Country Inequality (SSRN WP).

  7. If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged? with Diego Comin, appendix, estimates, replication files, media: AEA’s highlight video, the economist 1, the economist 2, nyt, voxeu, bloomberg, economiclogic. AEJ: Macroeconomics, July 2018, vol. 10, no. 3.

  8. Human Capital Accumulation and Occupational Choice: Implications for Economic Development, with Johanna Schauer and Robert Townsend, online appendix, replication files. Review of Economic Dynamics (special issue on Human Capital and Inequality), May 2017, vol. 25 (2017), pp. 151–186.

  9. Mergers along the Global Supply Chain: Information Technologies and Routine Tasks, with Sergi Basco, media: voxeu. WP version. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, April 2017.

  10. Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences, with Diego Comin, Handbook of Economic Growth, 2014, vol 2B, Ch. 2, pp. 565–622.

  11. Heterogeneous Trade Costs and Wage Inequality: A Model of Two Globalizations, with Sergi Basco, Journal of International Economics, March 2013, vol. 89(2), pp. 393-406.

Work in Progress

  1. Structural Change in Innovation, with Danial Lashkari and Diego Comin.

  2. What Goods do Countries Trade?, with Danial Lashkari.

  3. Micro Assignment and Macro Elasticities, with Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati.

  4. Jobless Industrialization, with Laura Alfaro, Marcela Eslava and Felipe Saenz.

  5. Persistence of Inequality after Apartheid: Assessing the Role of Geography and Skills, with Kristina Manysheva and Johanna Schauer.

  6. Scale and Skill, with Diego Comin and Matthew Dey.

Teaching Materials

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

Data

Dataset of Quarterly Industry-Level Labor Productivity Data for the US; Data Documentation