Welcome! I am a trade economist specializing in productivity, inequality, and production networks.
Assistant professor at the Economics Department of Duke University
Senior economist at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile
Postdoctoral associate at the Cowles Foundation of Yale University
Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University
Member of CESifo and IGL Research Networks
Primary Field: Trade
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
Also at the Central Bank of Chile, 1180 Agustinas, Santiago, Chile · fhuneeus@bcentral.cl
Working Papers
Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness and Risk
Old version material: NBER Working Paper 29774 | Central Bank Working Paper 942 | World Bank Working Paper 9937 | 15-minutes Slides | 1-hour Slides
Production Network Dynamics and the Propagation of Shocks
WTO Essay Award for Young Economists 2019
Best Graduate Student Paper of the West Coast Trade Workshop 2019
Media: WTO, El Mercurio (spanish)
Work in Progress (Selected)
Grant 1: Large Research Grant | STEG
Grant 2: National Science Foundation Grant
Information Frictions and Network Spillovers in Firm-to-Firm Linkages
Grant: Full Research Grant (x2) | International Growth Center
Quantifying Aggregate Impacts in the Presence of Spillovers
Publications
Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization
Replication Material: Codes and Data
Discussions
- Aggregate Productivity and Microdata | OECD Global Forum on Productivity Annual Conference | 2026
- Reformas Económicas en Chile 1973-2024 | de Ricardo Ffrench-Davis | Lanzamiento de la edición definitiva | 2026 | Versión interactiva
- The Labor Market Consequences of a Rapid Climate Transition | Atlanta Fed Macro Dynamics Conference | 2025
- Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities | Rocky Mountain Trade Conference | 2025
- 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
Anatomy of Firms' Margins of Adjustment: Evidence from the COVID Pandemic | May 2023
Details: Central Bank Working Paper 981
Firms during the COVID-19 Crisis (Spanish) | March 2023
Evidence on how firms responded to the COVID-19 crisis
Relevance of Global Supply Chains for Inflation and Monetary Policy (Spanish) | November 2022
Evidence on the role of global supply chains for inflation in the context of geopolitical and environmental disruptions
Details: English version
Financial Intermediation and Central Banking in Chile (Spanish) | December 2021
Evidence on the interaction between financial and monetary policies
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
Princeton University
University of Chicago
Yale University
Princeton University
Princeton University
Yale University
Central Bank of Chile
Teaching
I. Duke - graduate teaching
- ECON 828 Advanced Topics in International Trade
- Econ 890 Methods in Trade, Macro and Industrial Organization
II. Duke - undergraduate teaching
Pre-Doctoral Work
A Multidimensional Employment Quality Index for Brazil 2002-11
Multidimensional Measure of Job Quality: Persistence and Heterogeneity in a Developing Country