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International Economics

Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to the US-China Trade War

Quarterly Journal of Economics, October 2024, Accepted

Rodrigo Adao, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson

International Economics

Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?

Review of Economic Studies, July 2024, Accepted

Arnaud Costinot, D. Atkin, M. Fukui

International Economics

The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data

Journal of Political Economy, April 2024, Accepted

Arnaud Costinot, D. Bartelme, D. Donaldson, A. Rodriguez-Clare

International Economics

Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation

The Review of Economic Studies, 2023, vol. 90., issue 1, pp. 2261-2291

Arnaud Costinot, Iván Werning

International Economics

Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, vol. 137, issue 3, pp. 1553-1614

Arnaud Costinot, R. Adao, P. Carrillo, D. Donaldson, D. Pomeranz

International Economics

Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity

Econometrica, 2020, vol. 88, issue 6, pp. 2739-2776

Arnaud Costinot, A. Rodriguez-Clare, I. Werning

International Economics

The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, vol. 134, issue 2, pp. 843-894

Arnaud Costinot, D. Donaldson, M. Kyle, H. Williams

International Economics

Lerner Symmetry: A Modern Treatment

American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 13-26

Arnaud Costinot, Iván Werning

International Economics

The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade

The Review of Economic Studies, 2019, vol. 86, issue 1, pp. 46-80

Arnaud Costinot, C. Arkolakis, D. Donaldson, A. Rodriguez-Clare

International Economics

The US Gains from Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor Services

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2018, Vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 3-24

Arnaud Costinot, A. Rodriguez-Clare

International Economics

Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade

American Economic Review, 2017, vol. 107, issue 3, pp. 633-689

Arnaud Costinot, R. Adao, D. Donaldson

International Economics

Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Markets: Evidence from 1.7 million Fields Around the World

Journal of Political Economy, 2016, vol. 124, pp. 205-248

Arnaud Costinot, D. Donaldson, C. Smith

International Economics

Beyond Ricardo: Assignment Models in International Trade

Annual Review of Economics, 2015, vol. 7, pp. 31-62

Arnaud Costinot, J. Vogel

International Economics

Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 130, issue 2, pp. 659-702

Arnaud Costinot, D. Donaldson, J.Vogel, I. Werning

International Economics

A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms-of-Trade Manipulation

Journal of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 122, issue 1, pp. 77-128

Arnaud Costinot, G. Lorenzoni, I. Werning

International Economics

Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

Handbook of International Economics, 2014, vol. 4, chapter 4, Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman,and Kenneth Rogoff editor

Arnaud Costinot, A. Rodriguez-Clare

International Economics

An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

The Review of Economic Studies, 2013, vol. 80, pp. 109-144

Arnaud Costinot, J. Vogel, S. Wang

International Economics

Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2012, vol. 102, issue 3, pp. 453-458

Arnaud Costinot, D. Donaldson

International Economics

Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2012, vol. 102, issue 3, pp. 396-401

Arnaud Costinot, J. Vogel, S. Wang

International Economics

What Goods Do Countries Trade? A Quantitative Exploration of Ricardo's Ideas

The Review of Economic Studies, 2012, vol. 79, issue 2, pp. 581-608

Arnaud Costinot, D. Donaldson, I. Komunjer

May 2012

International Economics

New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?

American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 102, issue 1, pp. 94-130

Arnaud Costinot, C. Arkolakis, A. Rodriguez-Clare

International Economics

Intermediated Trade

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, vol. 126, issue 3, pp. 1319-1374

Arnaud Costinot, P. Antras

International Economics

Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, vol. 93, issue 1, pp. 298-308

Arnaud Costinot, L. Oldenski, J. Rauch

International Economics

Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

Journal of Political Economy, 2010, vol. 118, issue 4, pp. 747-786

Arnaud Costinot, J. Vogel

International Economics

Intermediation and Economic Integration

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2010, vol. 100, issue 2, pp. 424-428

Arnaud Costinot, P. Antras

International Economics

An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage

Econometrica, 2009, vol. 77, issue 4, pages 1165-1192

Arnaud Costinot

International Economics

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: A New Perspective on Protectionism

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, vol. 7, issue 5, pages 1011-1041

Arnaud Costinot

International Economics

On the Origins of Comparative Advantage

Journal of International Economics, 2009, vol. 77, issue 2, pages 255-264

Arnaud Costinot

International Economics

A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Agreements on Product Standards

Journal of International Economics, 2008, vol. 75, issue 1, pages 197-213

Arnaud Costinot