Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Bridgman, Benjamin R.

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Office of the Director

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Education

"Export Mode and Market Entry Costs"
- BEA Working Paper 2013-01
"Home Productivity"
- BEA Working Paper 2013–3
"Do Intangible Assets Explain High U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Returns?"
- BEA Working Paper 2008–06
“Does Regulation Reduce Productivity? Evidence From Regulation of the U.S. Beet-Sugar Manufacturing Industry During the Sugar Acts, 1934–74”
- with Shi Qi and James Schmitz
- Minneapolis Fed Staff Report 389, 2007
“For Sale: Barriers to Riches”
- with Igor Livshits and James MacGee
- Economic Policy Research Institute Working Paper 20043, 2004
“Multiethnic Democracy”
- Louisiana State University Working Paper 2004–02, 2004

“Accounting for Household Production in the National Accounts, 1965-2010”
- with Andrew Dugan, Mikhael Lal, Matthew Osborne, and Shaunda Villones
- Survey of Current Business 92 (May 2012): 23-36
“International Supply Chains and the Volatility of Trade”
- Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry
“Market Entry and Trade Weighted Import Costs”
- Forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Economics
“The Rise of Vertical Specialization Trade.”
- Journal of International Economics 86 (January 2012): 133-140
“Threatening to Increase Productivity: Evidence from Brazil's Oil Industry”
- with Victor Gomes and Arilton Teixeira.
- World Development 39 (August 2011): 1372-1385.
“Heterogeneous Car Buyers: A Stylized Fact”
- with Ana Aizcorbe and Jeremy Nalewaik.
- Economic Letters 109 (October 2010): 50-53.
“Energy Prices and the Expansion of World Trade”
- Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (October 2008): 904–916
“What Does the Atlas Narodov Mira Measure?”
- Economics Bulletin 10 (June 2008): 1–8
“Why Are Ethnically Divided Countries Poor?”
- Journal of Macroeconomics 30 (March 2008): 1–18
“Vested Interests and Technology Adoption”
- with Igor Livshits and James MacGee
- Journal of Monetary Economics 54 (April 2007): 649–666