Assistant Professor @DukeEcon | Senior Economist @bcentralchile | Personal views only | Previously: @YaleEconomics Postdoc | @PrincetonEcon PhD
Sep 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
El @bcentralchile en su ultimo #IPoM muestra el pulso de la economia y de las garantias estatales de creditos comerciales (FOGAPE) casi en tiempo real, usando los mejores datos que tiene el Estado. Esto como parte de una agenda de investigacion. Un hilo con resultados...1/ 🧵
2/ Usando la factura electronica, se documenta la distribucion de cambios de ventas a nivel de firmas en tiempos normales (2014-2019) y durante esta crisis (marzo-julio 2020). Se aprecia como aumenta la fraccion de empresas que tienen caidas grandes de ventas.
Aug 7, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
💥🔥Working Paper Alert🔥💥
1/ Industrialization experiences differ across countries. Using a model of structural change we shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. A thread with some facts and findings:
2/ In the data, the size of the industrial sector (= manufacturing, construction, mining, utilities) exhibits a hump-shaped pattern: ⬆️ at low levels of development (industrialization phase), reaching a peak, and ⬇️ in the later stages of development (deindustrialization phase)
Nov 24, 2018 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
1/ I’m on the job market this year, thus an excuse to send out some key ideas about my JMP. First time I do this, so let’s see how it works.
2/ Firms form relationships with other firms to purchase inputs and sell their products. Forming these links in intermediate input markets is important. They imply dependencies between firms and thus a source for the propagation of shocks.
