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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

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...
CEP discussion papers
Social push and the direction of innovation

13 July 2022

Elias Einio, Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel

Innovators are intrinsically-motivated individuals who use ideas to create new goods and services. This raises the possibility that their social backgrounds may affect the direction of their innovative activity. Consiste... Read more...
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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...
Journal article
Inflation Inequality: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications

01 August 2021

Xavier Jaravel

Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in four areas. First, new price i... 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 Seminar
What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

10 March 2021

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
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06 May 2020

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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CEP Labour Markets Workshop
Quasi-Experimental Shift-Share Research Designs

26 February 2019

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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