Assistant professor at the Economics Department of Duke University

Senior economist at the Research Department (DIE) of the Central Bank of Chile

Postdoctoral associate at the Cowles Foundation from Yale University in 2019-2020

Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2019

Member of CESifo and IGL Research Networks

Primary Fields: Trade, with a focus on Production Networks

Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization

Please find my CV here

Email: federico.huneeus@duke.edu

Office Phone Number: +1 (919) 660-1800

Office Address: 213 Social Sciences, 419 Chapel Drive, Box 90097. Durham, N.C. 27708-0097, USA

 

WORK IN PROGRESS (SELECTED)

THE INCIDENCE OF DISTORTIONS

with David Atkin, Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, Tishara Garg

Grant 1: Large Research Grant | STEG

Grant 2: National Science Foundation Grant

INFORMATION FRICTIONS AND NETWORK SPILLOVERS IN FIRM-TO-FIRM LINKAGES

with Jie Bai, Lauren Bergquist, Nicolas Jimenez, Yuhei Miyauchi

Grant: Full Research Grant (x2) | International Growth Center

 

DISCUSSIONS 

Aggregate Implications of Firm Heterogeneity | Dallas Fed Conference on International Economics | 2024

Wholesalers in International Production Networks and Aggregate Productivity | IDB Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN) | 2023

Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms | NBER Conference on Supply Chains and Financial Frictions | 2023

Propagation and Amplification of Local Productivity Spillovers | ASSA Meetings | 2023

Healthier Firms for a Stronger Recovery | RIDGE Forum joint with IDB and CGD | 2022

Foreign Currency as a Barrier to International Trade: Evidence from Brazil | CEMLA Conference | 2022

Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages | New Faces International Trade Conference | 2022

Jobless Industrialization | ASSA Meetings | 2022

Informal Labor Markets in Times of Pandemic: Evidence for Latin America | CEMLA Conference | 2021

Will Schumpeter Catch COVID-19? | CEBRA Conference | 2021

Ownership Concentration and Firm Value: New Evidence from Owner Stakes in IPOS | ASSA Meetings | 2021

Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks | PIIE-Clausen Conference | 2020

Self-Harming Trade Policy? Protectionism and Production Networks | CEBRA Conference | 2020

POLICY

MATCHING ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IN CHILE | December 2024

with Alfonso Barrero, Cesar Ferreiro, Mario Giarda, Claudia Henriquez, Manuel Taboada

ANATOMY OF FIRMS’ MARGINS OF ADJUSTMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE COVID PANDEMIC | May 2023

with Elias Albagli, Andres Fernandez, Juan Guerra-Salas, Pablo Muñoz

Central Bank Working Paper 981

RELEVANCE OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS FOR INFLATION AND MONETARY POLICY (SPANISH) | November 2022

Discussion about the role of global supply chains for inflation in the context of geopolitical and environmental disruptions

Details: English version

PRODUCTIVITY IN THE LAST DECADES AND DURING THE PANDEMIC (SPANISH) | June 2021

The 2010 decade was lost in terms of productivity while productivity increased during the pandemic, both facts driven by firm dynamics

Details: Full monetary policy report (IPoM) - Technical report: Macro TFP - Technical report: Micro TFP - Twitter Summary Thread

FIRM DYNAMICS AND CREATION/DESTRUCTION OF LINKAGES DURING THE PANDEMIC (SPANISH) | March 2021

Significant re-entry of firms during the Pandemic and also significant churning of linkages, using rich administrative datasets from Chile

Details: Full monetary policy report (IPoM)

DEMAND AND SUPPLY SOURCES OF INFLATION DYNAMICS (SPANISH) | December 2020

How inventories and destruction of productive relationships might be drivers of inflation, using rich administrative datasets from Chile

Details: Full monetary policy report (IPoM)

FIRMS RESPONSE TO COVID-19: MICRO-EVIDENCE FROM CHILE (SPANISH) | September 2020

Sales and credit behavior during the pandemic using micro-data from Chile’s credit registry and firm-to-firm transactions

Details: Full monetary policy report (IPoM) - Technical report

FINANCING FIRMS IN HIBERNATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC | April 2020

Trade-offs of different financial policies to address the challenge of financing firms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Details: World Bank Report Website - VoxEU

HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR INCOME IN CHILE (SPANISH) | January 2018

Descriptive statistics using administrative data. For the National Productivity Commission of the Chilean Government

TOWARDS A PREVENTIVE SYSTEM OF MERGERS IN CHILE (SPANISH) | April 2015

Review of the regulation of mergers in Chile and proposals for a new preventive (ex-ante) system of merger evaluation

FOR-PROFIT IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM: EVIDENCE AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES (SPANISH) | September 2011

Literature and evidence review of for-profit institutions in the educational system

REFERENCES

Richard Rogerson

rdr@princeton.edu

atif mian

atif@princeton.edu

ANDRES FERNANDEZ

afernandezm@bcentral.cl

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

rossihansberg@uchicago.edu

Gene Grossman

grossman@princeton.edu

CHRISTOPHER NEILSON

cneilson@princeton.edu

COSTAS ARKOLAKIS

costas.arkolakis@yale.edu