Antonin Bergeaud

Antonin Bergeaud

Co-director

Antonin Bergeaud is an associate professor in the Economics Department of HEC Paris and a research affiliate of the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, the CEPR and the Collège de France’s Innovation Lab. His research focuses on long-run growth, productivity dynamics and the role of innovation in the diffusion of knowledge. He received the 2025 Best Young Economist Prize (Le Monde / Cercle des économistes).

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Publications

What American AI owes to European science

Policy Paper — November 2026

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Rising AI spending and the rise of open-weight models

Policy Paper — October 2026

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Generative AI: a freeze on youth hiring in exposed occupations

Policy Paper — October 2026

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Occupational exposure to generative AI, firm adoption and labor market dynamics in France

Working Paper — October 2026

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Why AI is not (yet) making France more productive

Policy Paper — September 2026

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Politics at work: workplace experience and political divides among employees in France

Working Paper — February 2026

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Artificial intelligence in the service of innovation: an analysis of patent data

Working Paper — July 2025

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The diffusion of artificial intelligence in France

Working Paper — July 2025

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Exposure to generative artificial intelligence and employment: an application to the French socio-occupational classification

Working Paper — January 2024

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