Structural Seminar with Federico HUNEEUS (Duke) - Mar 11th, 2025

Federico Huneeus is Assistant Profesoor of Economics at Duke University and Senior Economist at the Research Department (DIE) of the Central Bank of Chile. He is a member of the CESifo Network.

His research focuses on issues related to firm behaviour, from a micro and macro perspective, with a special focus on the study of production networks of firms, how they are formed, how they affect productivity growth and how they affect the impact of development policies. He is also interested in understanding how small firms can integrate with global value chains. He has received several grants from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) initiative and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). He is a recipient of the 2019 World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists.

Federico Huneeus' website

He will present a paper at the next Structural Seminar on the topic:

The Incidence of Distortions (read abstract, PDF 38.48)

The next Structural Seminar will host Gabriel KREINDLER (Harvard) on March 25th.