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Overview

James Harrigan is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a specialization in economics and econometrics. The main topics explored in their work include firm innovation and growth, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, regional economics and spatial analysis, economic growth and productivity, and economic policies and impacts.

Harrigan has published research in several academic venues, notably including the SSRN Electronic Journal and Research Policy. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Policy

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms" (2020, Research Policy)
  • "Techies and Firm Level Productivity" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Techies and Firm Level Productivity" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Harrigan has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Ariell Reshef
  • Farid Toubal

Their work covers topics such as the transformation of labor markets with technological change, firm productivity dynamics, and the spatial distribution of economic activity. These topics align closely with their focus on firm innovation, growth, and labor market outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Zeros, Quality, and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

    Richard Baldwin;James Harrigan

  • Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model

    James Harrigan

  • Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

    Donald R. Davis;James Harrigan

  • Specialization and the Volume of Trade: Do the Data Obey the Laws?

    James Harrigan

  • OECD imports and trade barriers in 1983

    James Harrigan

  • Specialization and the Volume of Trade: Do the Data Obey the Laws?

    James Harrigan

  • Estimation of cross-country differences in industry production functions

    James Harrigan

  • Distance, time, and specialization : Lean retailing in general equilibrium

    Carolyn L. Evans;James Harrigan

  • Handbook of International Trade

    E. Kwan Choi;James Harrigan

  • Openness to trade in manufactures in the OECD

    James Harrigan

  • Factor endowments and the international location of production: Econometric evidence for the OECD, 1970–1985

    James Harrigan

  • Airplanes and Comparative Advantage

    James Harrigan

  • Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium

    James Harrigan;Ariell Reshef

  • Testing the Theory of Trade Policy: Evidence from the Abrupt End of the Multifiber Arrangement

    James Harrigan;Geoffrey Barrows

  • Zeros, quality and space

    Richard E Baldwin;James Harrigan

  • The March of the Techies: Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in France, 1994-2007

    James Harrigan;Ariell Reshef;Farid Toubal

  • SCALE ECONOMIES AND THE VOLUME OF TRADE

    James Harrigan

  • Timeliness and Agglomeration.

    James Harrigan;James Harrigan;Anthony J. Venables;Anthony J. Venables

  • International Trade and American Wages in General Equilibrium, 1967-1995

    James Harrigan

  • Factor Supplies and Specialization in the World Economy

    James Harrigan;Egon Zakrajsek

  • Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

    Richard E. Baldwin;Richard E. Baldwin;Richard E. Baldwin;James Harrigan;James Harrigan

  • China's Local Comparative Advantage

    James Harrigan;Haiyan Deng

  • Technology, Factor Supplies, and International Specialization

    James Harrigan

  • Technology, Factor Supplies and International Specialization: Estimating the Neoclassical Model

    James Harrigan;James Harrigan

  • Distance, Time, and Specialization

    Carolyn L. Evans;James Harrigan;James Harrigan

  • Distance, time, and specialization

    Carolyn L. Evans;James Harrigan;James Harrigan

  • Testing the Theory of Trade Policy: Evidence from the Abrupt End of the Multifibre Arrangement

    James Harrigan;Geoffrey Barrows

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Baldwin
Richard E. Baldwin IMD Business School
Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Peter K. Schott
Peter K. Schott Yale University
Lee Branstetter
Lee Branstetter Carnegie Mellon University
Kenneth N. Kuttner
Kenneth N. Kuttner Williams College
C. Fritz Foley
C. Fritz Foley Harvard University
Philippe Martin
Philippe Martin Sciences Po
J. Bradford Jensen
J. Bradford Jensen Georgetown University
Egon Zakrajsek
Egon Zakrajsek Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Robert C. Feenstra
Robert C. Feenstra University of California, Davis

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