Flavien Moreau

Research

Publications

Forthcoming
A Search-Based Theory of Merger Waves
ⓡ Semih Üslü · European Economic Review (forthcoming)
IMF WP 2025/239
Forthcoming
How Costly Are Cartels?
ⓡ Ludovic Panon · AEJ: Macroeconomics (forthcoming)
IMF WPVoxEULes Échos (1)Les Échos (2)
2024
Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance
with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, and Bérengère Patault · Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024
IMF WPVoxEU
2024
Diversification in Sight? A Macroeconomic Assessment of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
with Zamid Alighishiev · International Economics, 2024
2022
A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis
with Adriana Lleras-Muney · Demography, 2022
NBER WPIMF WPIMF Research PerspectivesModelReplication

Working papers

Draft soon
Demographic Reversal and Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America
with Camila Casas and Nicolas Gomez Parra
R&R
Beyond Tariffs: Infrastructure Gaps and Trade in Latin America
with Rina Bhattacharya, Rafael Parente, and Sam Pienknagura
Based on "The Dynamics of Trade Integration and Fragmentation in Latin America" (with Rafael Machado Parente).
IMF WPIMF BlogBloomberg LíneaThe Economist
Under review
Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean
with Sophia Chen, Ryu Matsuura, and Joana Pereira
IMF WP
Under revision
Inferring Capital-Labor Substitution from Firm Size Distortions

Selected work in progress

Import Intermediaries, Inventories, and Investment
with David Kohn, Nan Li, and others
Remittances and Economic Development
with Nikolay Danov and others
The Macroeconomics of Conflict and Recovery
with Hippolyte Balima and others
Migration, Knowledge Diffusion, and Development
The Cost of Economic Cartels in LAC
with Ludovic Panon
Informality, Labor Slack, and the Phillips Curve in Latin America
with Camila Casas and Ana Paula Nothen Ruhe
Eastern Caribbean Migrations in the XXIth Century, a Macroeconomic Perspective
Natural Resource Contracts in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Empirical Analysis
with Antoine Arnoud and Abraham Lartey
Green Quotas
with Shan He and Mengxue Wang
Climate Control and Reciprocal Commitments
with Rishi Bhandary

Other publications

2022
Quel est l'impact du pouvoir d'appréciation des juges sur les indemnités de licenciement?
with Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, and Bérengère Patault · Droit Social, Sept. 2022
2022
Do French Companies Under-Report Their Workforce at 49 Employees to Get Around the Law?
with P. Askenazy, T. Breda, and V. Pecheu · IPP Policy Brief n°82

Replication

2023
In July 2023, we organized the first Bank-Fund Replication Games in partnership with the Institute for Replication.