Antonin Bergeaud

Associate Professor at HEC Paris

Area of Expertise

AI
Growth
Productivity
Science of Science

Biography

Antonin is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at HEC Paris.

His research focuses on economic growth and innovation, with particular attention to the long-term drivers of GDP growth, firm heterogeneity, the creation and diffusion of innovation, and productivity dynamics.

He is also affiliated with CEPR and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE, serves as a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE), and founded the Laboratoire de l’Innovation et du Futur du Travail (LIFT).

A graduate of École Polytechnique, Antonin earned his PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2018. Before joining HEC Paris, he worked as a research economist at the Banque de France. In 2024, he received the Prix du meilleur jeune économiste, awarded by Le Cercle des économistes and Le Monde.

Last publications

- Innovation
- Working Paper
Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover

Assessing the role of technology and data-driven governance in creating more livable and sustainable urban environments.
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22 july 2025
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- Growth
- Innovation
- Publication
A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

Exploring strategies to ensure equitable access to quality digital education across socioeconomic divides.
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20 february 2023
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- Working Paper
Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers

This study employs matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, in particular workers’ ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. Our findings indicate that in tasks emphasizing social skills, such workers not […]
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- Creative Destruction
- Innovation
- Productivity
- Working Paper
Lost in Transition: Financial Barriers to Green Growth

Green innovation offers a solution to climate change without compromising living standards. Yet theshare of climate-enhancing innovations in total patents, after booming for two decades, has seizedto grow since the Global Financial Crisis. We develop a quantitative framework in which firms direct innovation towards green or polluting technologies, and become better at innovating in technologies […]
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- Innovation
- Productivity
- Trade
- Publication
The Heterogeneous Impact of Market Size on Innovation: Evidence from French Firm-Level Exports

We analyze how demand conditions faced by a firm in its export markets affect its innovation decisions. We exploit exogenous firm-level export demand shocks and find that firms respond by patenting more; furthermore, this response is driven by the subset of initially more productive firms. The patent response arises two to five years after the […]
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- Philippe Aghion
- Antonin Bergeaud
- Matthieu Lequien
- Marc Melitz
Published

May 2024
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