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Arnaud Costinot

Arnaud Costinot

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
36
Citations
10684
World Ranking
2727
National Ranking
1516

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Arnaud Costinot is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, specializing in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their scholarly work predominantly addresses topics in global trade and economics, monetary policy and economic impact, as well as fiscal policy and economic growth.

The scientist has published extensively across several subfields, including general economics, econometrics and finance, economics and econometrics, finance, marketing, and organizational behavior and human resource management. This diverse range highlights the interdisciplinary nature of their research agenda.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have nine publications, the MEDALION JOURNAL Medical Research Nursing Health and Midwife Participation with four publications, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Review of Economic Studies with two publications each, and Econometrica with one publication.

Arnaud Costinot has contributed to the following papers:

  • Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy With Firm Heterogeneity, 2020, Econometrica
  • Robots, Trade, and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation, 2022, The Review of Economic Studies

Though not the lead author, the recent works related to trade wars involving the U.S. and China as well as the Trump administration's trade war feature as connected subjects in their research network:

  • Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence, 2022, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to the U.S.-China Trade War, 2024, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump's Trade War, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include Dave Donaldson with 11 collaborations, Rodrigo Adão with 10 collaborations, Paul E. Carrillo and Dina Pomeranz each with 4 collaborations, and Iván Werning with 3 collaborations.

Main topics of their work encompass:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Consumer Behavior and Marketing Influence

In 2010, Arnaud Costinot received the Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award.

Best Publications

  • New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?

    Costas Arkolakis;Arnaud Costinot;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

  • Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

    Arnaud Costinot;Arnaud Costinot;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

  • An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

    Arnaud Costinot;Jonathan E. Vogel;Su Wang

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

    Arnaud Costinot;David John Donaldson;Ivana Komunjer

  • Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields around the World

    Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson;Cory B Smith

  • Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

    Arnaud Costinot;Arnaud Costinot;Andres Rodriguez-Clare;Andres Rodriguez-Clare

  • The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade

    Costas Arkolakis;Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

  • Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

    Arnaud Costinot;Jonathan Vogel

  • The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade

    Costas Arkolakis;Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson;Andres Rodriguez-Clare

  • On the Origins of Comparative Advantage

    Arnaud Costinot

  • An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

    Arnaud Costinot;Jonathan E. Vogel;Su Wang

  • An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage

    Arnaud Costinot

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

    Arnaud Costinot;Guido Lorenzoni;Iván Werning

  • Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms

    Arnaud Costinot;Lindsay Oldenski;James Rauch

  • NONPARAMETRIC COUNTERFACTUAL PREDICTIONS IN NEOCLASSICAL MODELS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

    Rodrigo Adao;Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson

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

    Arnaud Costinot;David John Donaldson

  • Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields around the World

    Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson;Cory Benjamin Smith

  • Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy

    Arnaud Costinot;David John Donaldson;Jonathan Vogel;Ivan Werning

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  • New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?

    Costas Arkolakis;Costas Arkolakis;Costas Arkolakis;Arnaud Costinot;Arnaud Costinot;Andres Rodriguez-Clare;Andres Rodriguez-Clare

  • A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Agreements on Product Standards

    Arnaud Costinot

  • Beyond Ricardo: Assignment Models in International Trade

    Arnaud Costinot;Arnaud Costinot;Jonathan Vogel;Jonathan Vogel

  • The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data

    Dominick G Bartelme;Dominick G Bartelme;Arnaud Costinot;Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare;Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

  • How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997

    Arnaud Costinot;Dave Donaldson

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare University of California, Berkeley
Guido Lorenzoni
Guido Lorenzoni University of Chicago
James E. Rauch
James E. Rauch University of California, San Diego
Pol Antràs
Pol Antràs Harvard University

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