Profile

PhD Economics 2014, London School of Economics
Johannes Boehm is Professor of International Economics and also a research fellow of CEPR (London) and CEP, LSE. He conducts research and teaches on topics related to international trade, industrial development, growth, firms, as well as on macroeconomics and environmental economics. He joined the Graduate Institute in 2024 and was previously a professor at Sciences Po, Paris. He has held visiting positions at Princeton, Harvard, and INSEAD. His current research focuses on the role that trade and trade networks play in the process of growth, and on policies that can foster both the development of industrial capabilities and enhance economic resilience in the face of adverse conditions, including geopolitical risk and climate change. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "The Comparative Advantage of Firms", with S. Dhingra and J. Morrow. Journal of Political Economy 130(12), 3025--3100, 2022
• "Vertical Integration and Foreclosure: Evidence from Production Network Data", with J. Sonntag. Management Science 68(1), 141--161, 2023
• "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production", with E. Oberfield. Quarterly Journal of Economics 135(4), 2007--2058, 2020
• "The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Value Chains and Aggregate Productivity". Review of Economics and Statistics 104(1), 1--17, 2022

CURRENT RESEARCH
 

• "Growth and the Fragmentation of Production", 2023, with E. Oberfield
• "Firm adaptation in Production Networks: Evidence from Extreme Weather Events in Pakistan", 2024, with C. Balboni and M. Waseem
• "Five Facts about MPCs", 2024, with E. Fize and X. Jaravel
• "The Network Origins of Firm Dynamics: Contracting Frictions and Dynamism with Long-Term Relationships", 2024, with E. Oberfield, R. South, and M. Waseem
• "Trade and the End of Antiquity", 2024, with T. Chaney