Claudia Steinwender

Claudia Steinwender is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (CEP). Her research interests are in the fields of international trade, innovation, and economic history.

Research Interests:

International Trade, Innovation and Productivity, Applied Microeconometrics, Economic History

Publications

• Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender (2021), Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
  Journal of International Economics 133 (also: NBER Working Paper No. 25539, CESifo WP No. 8028)
  Online Appendix; Media: voxeu.org

• Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender (2021), Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input-Output Linkages and Vertical Integration
  Journal of European Economic Association 19(3) (also: NBER Working Paper No. 25286)
  Data: Self-constructed import IO tables for France; Media: voxeu.org

• Pian Shu and Claudia Steinwender (2019), The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation
  In: NBER Book Series Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19, Editors: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern (also: NBER Working Paper No. 24715)

• Claudia Steinwender (2018), Real Effects of Information Frictions: "When the States and the Kingdom became United"
  American Economic Review 108(3), 657-696
  2014 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists, Best Paper Award at RIEF XIIIth Doctoral Meeting, Klaus-Liebscher-Award 2014, FIW Award 2015
  Online Appendix; Media: Trade Talks (podcast by The Economist and PIIE), voxeu.org, CentrePiece, Der Standard

• Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender (2016), Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints
  Review of Economics and Statistics 98(5), 913-924 (earlier version: CEP Discussion Paper No 1188)
  Online Appendix; Media: The Economist, HBS Working Knowledge

Working Papers

• The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers (NBER Working Paper No. 26483, CEP Discussion Paper No 1662)
  Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, John van Reenen
  Revision requested at the Review of Economics and Statistics
  Media: Financial Times, voxeu.org

• All Aboard: The Effects of Port Development (NBER Working Paper No. 28148, CEPR Discussion paper No 15487, CESifo Working Paper No. 8721)
  César Ducruet, Réka Juhász, Dávid Nagy and Claudia Steinwender

• Spinning the Web: Codifiability, Information Frictions, and Trade (earlier titles: Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th Century; Spinning the Web: The Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediates and Technology Diffusion, NBER Working Paper No. 24590)
  Réka Juhász and Claudia Steinwender
  Online Appendix; Media: Trade Talks (podcast by The Economist and PIIE)

• The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change (CEP Discussion Paper No. 1334)
  Claudia Steinwender

Work in Progress

• Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era
  Laura Alfaro, Cathy Ge Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong, Claudia Steinwender

• Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry
  Pierre Azoulay, Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender