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Xavier Jaravel

Xavier Jaravel

Associate and Associate Professor of Economics

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 6698
Email:
x.jaravel@lse.ac.uk
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Economics of Environment and Energy
Public Economics
Department of Economics

Biography

Xavier Jaravel's current research interests are:

  • Public economics
  • Economics of innovation
  • Economics of inequality
  • Macroeconomics

Xavier's latest projects include:

  • The unequal gains from product innovations
  • The distributional effects from trade

Latest

CEP discussion papers
The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

20 October 2023

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

How much do consumption patterns matter for the impact of international trade on inequality? In neoclassical trade models, the effects of trade shocks on consumers' purchasing power are governed by the shares of imports ... Read more...
POID Working Papers
The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

01 June 2023

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

How much do consumption patterns matter for the impact of international trade on inequality? In neoclassical trade models, the effects of trade shocks on consumers' purchasing power are governed by the shares of imports ... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

04 April 2023

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

What is the nature of the distributional effects of trade? This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of "trade-induced horizontal inequality," i.e., inequality brought about by trade shocks that... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Modern manufacturing capital, labor demand and product market dynamics: evidence from France

29 March 2023

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2017 to document the effects of a fall in the cost of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technolog... Read more...
POID Working Papers
Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

30 November 2022

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

What is the nature of the distributional effects of trade? This paper demonstrates conceptually and empirically the importance of "trade-induced horizontal inequality," i.e., inequality brought about by trade shocks that... Read more...
POID Working Papers
Measuring growth in consumer welfare with income-dependent preferences

30 November 2022

Xavier Jaravel and Danial Lashkari

How should we measure changes in consumer welfare given observed data on prices and expenditures? This paper proposes a nonparametric approach that holds under arbitrary preferences that may depend on observable consumer... Read more...
POID Working Papers
Modern manufacturing capital, labor demand, and product market dynamics: evidence from France

28 November 2022

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2017 to document the effects of a fall in the cost of investments in modern manufacturing capital, including modern automation technolog... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

16 November 2022

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e... Read more...
Chapter
The effects of automation on labor demand: a survey of the recent literature

13 June 2022

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation,... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarPOID Research Seminar
Social push and the direction of innovation

06 September 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Innovators' personal experience and social networks may affect their familiarity with customer needs, and in turn the types of products they bring to market. Consistent with this channel, we document that innovators crea... Read more...
Journal article
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

08 June 2021

Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull and Xavier Jaravel

Many studies use shift-share (or ?Bartik?) instruments, which average a set of shocks with exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for shift-share instrumental variable (SSIV) regressions in which ... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarPOID Research SeminarIFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

10 March 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1994 and 2015 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated ... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarPOID Research SeminarIFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarIFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
TBC

06 May 2020

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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IFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarPOID Research SeminarIFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarIFS-STICERD Public Economics SeminarLabour Markets Workshops
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

26 February 2019

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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Blog
Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

24 December 2017

Alexander Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

Article by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen: Relatively little is known about the factors that induce people to become inventors. Using data on the lives of over one million inv... Read more...

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