Felipe Benguria                                           

Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Gatton College of Business and Economics
University of Kentucky
              
Email:  fbe225@uky.edu                                     
CV:      [pdf]
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Recent Presentations: 

• NBER Summer Institute, July 2017 (ITM). 
• NBER Summer Institute, July 2015 (DAE). 
• Empirical Investigations in International Trade, Nov 2014.

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Publications:

• Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil [SSRN] ​with Jorge Alvarez, Niklas Engbom, and Christian Moser. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics; Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan. 2018.

Working Papers and Work in Progress:

• After the Panic: Do Financial Crises Cause Demand or Supply Shocks? Evidence from International Trade, with Alan Taylor. NBER Working Paper No. 25790
• The Transmission of Commodity Price Super-Cycles [pdf], with Felipe Saffie and Sergio Urzua. NBER Working Paper No. 24560. Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies.
• The Matching and Sorting of Exporting and Importing Firms: Theory and Evidence [pdf]. Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics.
• Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap [pdf], with Josh Ederington.
• Labor Earnings Inequality in Manufacturing during the Great Depression, with Nicolas Ziebarth and Chris Vickers. Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Economic History.
• Worker Adjustment to Trade Shocks: Where you Work or What you Do? [pdf]
• Productivity and Trade Dynamics in Sudden Stops, with Felipe Saffie and Hidehiko Matsumoto. [Work in Progress]

Older - Being Revised:

• The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Chile: Evidence from 20 years of Worker‐Level Social Security Records.

• The Effect of Credit Shocks on U.S. Exports during the Great Recession: Evidence from Matched Firm-Bank Data.

Classes taught: 

• International Trade (ECO 471) (undergraduate level)
• Industrial Organization (ECO 461) (undergraduate level)
• International Trade (ECO 772) (graduate level - 1 month module)
• International Finance (ECO 771) (graduate level - 1 month module)

Please find the materials for these courses on Blackboard.