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Jonathan Eaton was affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular emphasis on global trade, economic growth, and firm innovation.

The main fields of study spanned:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Medicine

Within these areas, key subfields of study included:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Strategy and Management
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Emergency Medicine

Their research addressed several topics, notably:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Global Trade and Competitiveness
  • International Business and FDI
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

Jonathan Eaton's publication record included papers in peer-reviewed journals and electronic platforms. Frequent venues for their work were:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of International Economics
  • Econometrica
  • Annual Review of Economics
  • Journal of International Economics

Among recent papers authored by Eaton were:

  • "A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Two-Sided Search in International Markets" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Additional related publications include:

  • "Search and learning in export markets: Evidence from interviews with Colombian exporters" (2023, Review of International Economics)
  • "The Margins of Trade" (2025, Econometrica)

Frequent collaborators who coauthored several works with Eaton included:

  • James Tybout
  • Samuel Kortum
  • Marcela Eslava
  • David Jinkins
  • C.J. Krizan

Best Publications

  • Technology, Geography, and Trade

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum

  • Plants and Productivity in International Trade

    Andrew B. Bernard;Andrew B. Bernard;Jonathan Eaton;J. Bradford Jensen;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum

  • Debt with Potential Repudiation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

    Jonathan W. Eaton;Mark Gersovitz

  • Optimal Trade and Industrial Policy Under Oligopoly

    Jonathan Eaton;Gene M. Grossman

  • AN ANATOMY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE: EVIDENCE FROM FRENCH FIRMS

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel S Kortum;Francis Kramarz

  • International Technology Diffusion: Theory and Measurement

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum

  • Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum

  • Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum;Francis Kramarz

  • Dissecting Trade: Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum;Francis Kramarz

  • The Pure Theory of Country Risk

    Jonathan Eaton;Mark Gersovitz;Joseph Stiglitz

  • Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD

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  • Trade in Capital Goods

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum

  • Trade and the Global Recession

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel S. Kortum;Brent Neiman;John Romalis

  • Cities and Growth: Theory and Evidence from France And Japan

    Jonathan Eaton;Zvi Eckstein

  • Bilateralism and regionalism in japanese and u.s. trade and direct foreign investment patterns

    Jonathan W. Eaton;Akiko Tamura

  • Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment

    Robert Dekle;Jonathan Eaton;Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum

  • International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum;Sebastian Sotelo

  • A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

    Jonathan Eaton;Marcela Eslava;David Jinkins;C.J. Krizan

  • Export dynamics in Colombia: firm-level evidence

    Jonathan Eaton;Marcela Eslava;Maurice Kugler;James Tybout

  • A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

    Jonathan Eaton;Marcela Eslava;David Jinkins;C. J. Krizan

  • Technology, trade, and growth: A unified framework

    Jonathan Eaton;Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum;Samuel Kortum

  • Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity onn the OECD

    Jonathan Eaton;Samuel Kortum

  • Tariffs as Insurance: Optimal Commercial Policy When Domestic Markets Are Incomplete

    Jonathan Eaton;Gene M. Grossman

  • Market structure and foreign trade: Increasing returns, imperfect competition and the international economy: Elhanan Helpman and Paul R. Krugman, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985) pp. xii+271, $22.50

    Jonathan Eaton

  • Handbook of international economics: Ronald W. Jones and Peter B. Kenen, eds., Volume I (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1984) pp. xxi + 623

    Jonathan Eaton

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Kortum
Samuel Kortum Yale University
Harvey S. Rosen
Harvey S. Rosen Princeton University
James Tybout
James Tybout Pennsylvania State University
Willem H. Buiter
Willem H. Buiter Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Maurice Kugler
Maurice Kugler George Mason University
Francis Kramarz
Francis Kramarz Collège de France
Gene M. Grossman
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University
Stephen J. Turnovsky
Stephen J. Turnovsky University of Washington
Zvi Eckstein
Zvi Eckstein Reichman University
Andrew B. Bernard
Andrew B. Bernard Dartmouth College

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