Publications

1. Building an Alliance to Map Supply Networks with A. Pichler, C. Diem, A. Brintrup, F. Lafond, G. Buiten, T. Choi, V. Carvalho, D. Farmer and S. Thurner.
   Science (2023)
   [WP version] Media: [SUERF Policy brief][CSH Vienna policy brief][Actus Press article]

2. The Impact of Firm-level Covid Rescue Polices on Productivity Growth and Reallocation with J. Konings and D. Van Esbroeck.
   European Economic Review (2023)
   [CEPR WP][Slides][GitHub] Media: [VoxEU][Atlantico]

3. The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach with A. Bernard, E. Dhyne, K. Manova and A. Moxnes.
   Journal of Political Economy (2022)
   [WP version][Slides][GitHub]

4. Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade with E. Dhyne and A. Kikkawa.
   Journal of the European Economic Association (2022)
   [WP version]

5. Covid-19 and the Role of Economic Conditions in French Regional Departments with V. Ginsburgh and I. Natali.
   European Journal of Health Economics (2021)
   [GitHub]

6. Pecking Order and Core-Periphery Structure of International Trade with K. De Bruyne and J. Van Hove.
   Review of International Economics (2020)
   [WP version][GitHub]

7. The Gravity of Intermediate Goods with P. Conconi and A. Plaku.
   Review of Industrial Organization (2020)
   [WP version][GitHub]

8. Distance and Border Effects in International Trade: A Comparison of Estimation Methods with Z. Studnicka and J. Van Hove.
   Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2016)
   [GitHub]

Working papers

1. Multinational Networks and Trade Participation (2026) with P. Conconi, F. Leone and C. Thomas.
   Revision requested at Review of Economic Studies
   [CEPR WP][ECARES WP][Slides]

2. Quantifying Strategic Dependence (2026) with N. Consonni. (submitted)
   [ECARES WP][Slides]

3. Optimal trade, industrial, and public policy mix in economic unions with heterogeneous locations (2026) with A. Palazzolo.
   [CEPR WP] [Slides] Best Paper Award at CONCORDi 2023.

4. Granularity in firm-to-firm production networks: a multi-country analysis (2026) with A. Palazzolo, E. Dhyne, A. Borsos, D. Kulikov, A. Linarello, A. Paulus, G. Romanini, and M. Saldias.

5. The transmission of Euro area monetary policy shocks in the Belgian firm-to-firm production network (2026) with A. Palazzolo and E. Dhyne.

6. Belgian Regions in Local and Global Value Chains (2025) with B. Bernon and A. Palazzolo.

7. The impact of firm-level Covid rescue policies: evidence from Wallonia (2025) with D. Van Esbroeck. (permanent WP)
   [ECARES WP]

8. A Theory of Growth and Inequality (2024) with B. Bernon.
   [NBB WP][Slides]

9. Structural Identification of Productivity Under Biased Technological Change (2023) with L. Cherchye, T. Demuynck, B. De Rock, C. Duprez and M. Verschelde.

10. Correspondences of EU Product Classifications (2022)
    [Github]

11. Price Updating with Production Networks (2021) with C. Duprez.
    [NBB WP][Slides] Media: [Lagarde’s IMF talk, 2024]

12. Heterogeneous Firms and the Micro Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations  (2017) with K. De Bruyne, E. Dhyne and J. Van Hove.
    [NBB WP][Slides]

13. The Belgian Production Network 2002-2012 (2015) with E. Dhyne and S. Rubinova.
    National Bank of Belgium Working Paper, No 288 (2015) (permanent WP)
    Media: [Press release]

Work in progress

1. Finding Markets via Firm Embeddings: A machine learning approach to relevant markets with Vasco Carvalho and Stephen Hansen

2. Firm Growth in Production Networks with Andy Bernard and Andreas Moxnes

3. Anatomy of Aggregate Volatility with Johannes Lumma and François Lafond