Assistant professor at the Economics Department of Duke University.

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

I was a postdoctoral associate at the Cowles Foundation from Yale University in 2019-2020. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2019.

I am a member of the CESifo Research Network.

Primary Fields: Trade and Macroeconomics, with a focus on Production Networks

Secondary Fields: Industrial Organization and Labor

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: Large Research Grant | STEG

 

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 BRIEFS

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 WP 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 mergers evaluation

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

Literature and evidence review of for-profits 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