David Argente
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University's School of Management, with a secondary appointment at the Yale Department of Economics.
I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Monetary Economics, and a Co-Editor at the Latin American Journal of Central Banking.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. My research focuses on applied macroeconomics, macro development, innovation, and monetary economics.
Working Papers
Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption: P2P Digital Payments
with Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi, Esteban Mendez, and Diana Van Patten
American Economic Review, revise and resubmit
Patents to Products: Product Innovation and Firm Dynamics
with Salomé Baslandze, Douglas Hanley and Sara Moreira
Quarterly Journal of Economics, reject and resubmit
Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods
with Fernando Alvarez
Review of Economic Studies, revise and resubmit
How do Firms Build Market Share? The Role of Demand Frictions
with Doireann Fitzgerald, Sara Moreira, Anthony Priolo
American Economic Review: Insights, conditionally accepted
Cross-Border Product Adoption: Individual Imports, Migrant Networks, and Domestic Retailers
with Esteban Mendez and Diana Van Patten
with Sara Moreira, Ezra Oberfield, and Venky Venkateswaran
Published and Accepted Papers
The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications
with Munseob Lee and Sara Moreira
Journal of Political Economy, 2024
Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador
with Fernando Alvarez and Diana Van Patten
Science, 2023
Product Life Cycle, Learning, and Nominal Shocks
with Chen Yeh
Review of Economic Studies, 2022
On the Effects of the Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber
with Fernando Alvarez
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US
with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022
The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases
with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022
with Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi, and Rafael Jiménez
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022
A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown, Testing and Tracing
with Fernando Alvarez and Francesco Lippi
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021
Cost of Living Inequality during the Great Recession
with Munseob Lee
Journal of European Economic Association, 2021
Cash-Management in Times of COVID-19
with Fernando Alvarez
B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2021
Innovation and Product Reallocation in the Great Recession
with Munseob Lee and Sara Moreira
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018
Work in Progress
Price Setting During a Currency Changeover
with Fernando Alvarez, Alberto Cavallo, and Francesco Lippi
Bias in the CPI
with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee
Dynamic Multiproduct Firms