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Posts by Jean-Félix Brouillette

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American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 7 No. 4 December 2025

The December 2025 issue of AER: Insights (7, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/827.

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Resetting the innovation clock: Endogenous growth through technological turnover
By Philippe Aghion @abergeaud.bsky.social Timo Boppart @jfbrou.bsky.social
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We propose a model of endogenous economic growth with "weak'' scale effects and diminishing returns to innovation at the micro level. In our model, entrants introduce new technologies through research and incumbents incrementally improve them through development. Over time, further improvement becomes harder such that firms ultimately run out of ideas and exit, paving the way for entrants that discover new technologies with further room for improvement. This turnover gives rise to a continuous stream of (temporary) opportunities for technological improvements that sustain economic growth. In a stationary equilibrium, the growth rate is constant and endogenous to market incentives.

We propose a model of endogenous economic growth with "weak'' scale effects and diminishing returns to innovation at the micro level. In our model, entrants introduce new technologies through research and incumbents incrementally improve them through development. Over time, further improvement becomes harder such that firms ultimately run out of ideas and exit, paving the way for entrants that discover new technologies with further room for improvement. This turnover gives rise to a continuous stream of (temporary) opportunities for technological improvements that sustain economic growth. In a stationary equilibrium, the growth rate is constant and endogenous to market incentives.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20761 Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover
Philippe Aghion, @abergeaud.bsky.social, Timo Boppart, Jean-Félix Brouillette
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Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States (Forthcoming Article) - We construct a measure of consumption-equivalent welfare for Black and White Americans that incorporates life expectancy, incarceration, consumption, leisure, and inequality. B...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States" by Jean-Félix Brouillette, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Research in Health, Public, and Urban Economics

Victoria Marone and I hiring a predoc to work on health & urban economics projects with us at Yale. We’re a bit late in the hiring cycle, but would love to chat with folks in school /government/industry who are interested in doing an econ PhD!

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Job market update: McGill Econ is hiring!

Please encourage your students to apply as soon as possible if interested.

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