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

THE DYNAMICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

with Costas Arkolakis, Yuhei Miyauchi

DO MERGER REVIEWS PROMOTE COMPETITION AND STALL CONSOLIDATION?

with Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Tom Wollmann

Grant: Market Structure | Washington Center for Equitable Growth

 

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