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Ezra Oberfield

Princeton University

Assistant Professor

Princeton, NJ 08544-1021

United States

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1.

Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity: A Theory of Input-Output Architecture

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2011-12
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2012
Ezra Oberfield
Princeton University
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Networks, Productivity, Supply Chains, Ideas, Diffusion

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The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration

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The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration

NBER Working Paper No. w23853
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2022
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard University, Princeton University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12342
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2017
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard University, Princeton University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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balanced growth, capital share, capital-skill complementarity, Labor Share, neoclassical growth, technological progress

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Micro Data and the Macro Elasticity of Substitution

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-12-05
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Mar 2012
Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval
Princeton University and University of Chicago
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Elasticity of Substitution, Aggregation, Bias of Technical Change

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The Global Diffusion of Ideas

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The Global Diffusion of Ideas

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2016-13
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 01 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2019
Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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The Global Diffusion of Ideas

NBER Working Paper No. w21844
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2023
Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University
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Micro Data and Macro Technology

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Micro Data and Macro Technology

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2012-11
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Dec 2012
Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval
Princeton University and University of Chicago
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Elasticity of Substitution, Aggregation, Bias of Technical Change

Micro Data and Macro Technology

NBER Working Paper No. w20452
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Ezra Oberfield and Devesh Raval
Princeton University and University of Chicago
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Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

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Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5774
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Mar 2016
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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neoclassical growth, balanced growth, technological progress, capital-skill complementarity

Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

NBER Working Paper No. w21861
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11063
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Jan 2016
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Princeton University and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
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balanced growth, capital-skill complementarity, neoclassical growth, technological progress

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Commodity Money with Frequent Search

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2010-22
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Dec 2010
Ezra Oberfield and Nicholas Trachter
Princeton University and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
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Commodity Money, Search, Multiple Equilibria, Sunspots

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The Elusive Explanation for the Declining Labor Share

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The Elusive Explanation for the Declining Labor Share

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 14, pp. 93-124, 2022
Posted: 31 Aug 2022
Gene M. Grossman and Ezra Oberfield
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University

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Scalable Expertise: How Standardization Drives Scale and Scope

NBER Working Paper No. w34160
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Aug 2025
David Argente, Sara Moreira, Ezra Oberfield, Venky Venkateswaran and Venky Venkateswaran
Yale University, Northwestern University, Princeton University and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of MinneapolisNew York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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