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Claudia Steinwender.

Claudia Steinwender

Associate

Expertise: international trade, labour economics, applied econometrics

Email:
claudia.steinwender@econ.lmu.de
Links:
CEP Trade
University of Munich

Biography

Professor Claudia Steinwender is a Professor of Economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is affiliated with the NBER, CEPR and cesifo and an associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics. Her research areas are international trade and firm productivity, with a focus on empirical analysis.

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? Evidence from chemistry

In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science ... Read more...

Pierre Azoulay, Shumin Qiu and Claudia Steinwender

13 March 2023

CEP discussion papers
Omnia Juncta in Uno*: foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era

We investigate how firms and markets adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but under-examined form of IP protection to address asymmetric information, by exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark l... Read more...

Laura Alfaro, Cathy Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong and Claudia Steinwender

02 February 2022

Journal article
Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity

When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While th... Read more...

Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender

01 November 2021

Journal article
Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input-Output Linkages and Vertical Integration

We study how the technological importance of inputs—measured by cost shares—is related to the decision to “make” or “buy” that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an instrumental variable approach b... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

01 June 2021

CEP discussion papers
All aboard: the effects of port development

Transport infrastructure facilitates the fast flow of goods and people across space, but it also occupies extensive amounts of land. This may drive up land rents and crowd out other economic activity. Using the introduct... Read more...

César Ducruet, Réka Juhász, Dávid Krisztián Nagy and Claudia Steinwender

08 December 2020

Blog
Does more competition spur innovation or discourage it?

Less-productive firms that are family owned and managed see the greatest improvement in productivity, write Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender.... Read more...

Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender

06 March 2020

CEP discussion papers
Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers and productivity

When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While th... Read more...

Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender

31 January 2020

Blog
Public investment in defence research can increase business innovation

That doesn't mean that defence R&D is the most efficient way to stimulate private sector innovation and productivity, write Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John van Reenen.... Read more...

Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John Van Reenen

17 January 2020

CEP discussion papers
The intellectual spoils of war? Defense R&D, productivity and international spillovers

Abstract We examine the impact of government funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in particular - on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity growth. We estimate longitudinal models that rel... Read more...

Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender and John Van Reenen

14 November 2019

CEP discussion papers
Organizing global supply chains: input-output linkages and vertical integration

We study whether and how the technological importance of an input – measured by its cost share – is related to the decision of whether to “make” or “buy” that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

19 November 2018

Journal article
Real effects of information frictions: When the states and the Kingdom Became United

How do information frictions distort international trade? This paper exploits a unique historical experiment to estimate the magnitude of these distortions: the establishment of the transatlantic telegraph connection in ... Read more...

Claudia Steinwender

01 March 2018

Journal article
Survive another day: Using changes in the composition of investments to measure the cost of credit constraints

We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of credit shocks. Theoretically, we show that credit shocks reduce the value of long-term relative to short-term investments. Empirically, we can therefore comp... Read more...

Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender

01 December 2016

CEP discussion papers
The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change

A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While tr... Read more...

Claudia Steinwender

27 February 2015

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Victorian internet: the trade impact of the transatlantic telegraph

The telegraph was the Victorian equivalent of today’s ‘big data’, helping firms to forecast future demand. Analysing such unique historical ‘experiments’ helps understand how firms and markets respond when new technology... Read more...

Claudia Steinwender

08 May 2014

CEP discussion papers
Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure credit shocks. Theoretically, we show that credit shocks reduce the value of long term investments relative to short term ones. Under the (conservative) assumption that ... Read more...

Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender

12 February 2013

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