Hugo Hopenhayn

An economics professor at UCLA, Hugo Hopenhayn is a long-term consultant in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Hugo organized the Networks, Innovation and Productivity Conference as part of the May 2023 CORE Week and was selected to deliver the inaugural Goodfriend Memorial Lecture.

Bank Publications

June 2023, No. 23-18

Goodfriend Memorial Lecture: Knowledge Creation and Diffusion

The inaugural Marvin Goodfriend lecture, given by Hugo Hopenhayn, discussed how intellectual property rights must trade off incentives for innovation and knowledge diffusion.

Hugo Hopenhayn
Working Papers

March 2021, No. 21-07

Big Push in Distorted Economies

Many countries have industrialized and grown rapidly by adopting modern technologies. Why don't poor countries adopt more productive technologies? Is there a role for policies that coordinate technology adoption?

Francisco Buera, Hugo Hopenhayn, Yongseok Shin and Nicholas Trachter

December 2007, No. 07-7

Moral Hazard and Persistence

Hugo Hopenhayn and Arantxa Jarque

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