Felipe Benguria

                                

                Assistant Professor
                Department of Economics
                Gatton College of Business and Economics
                University of Kentucky
              
                Email: fbe225@uky.edu                                     
                CV:      [pdf] (updated Aug. 2021)
               @GoogleScholar

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

 

• After the Panic: Do Financial Crises Cause Demand or Supply Shocks? Evidence from International Trade, with Alan Taylor. NBER Working Paper No. 25790. [Brookings]  [Washington Center for Equitable Growth]  [AIER]. American Economic Review: Insights; Vol 2, No. 4, Dec. 2020. [LINK TO JOURNAL] [NBER Version]                                                                                                                                                        
• The Matching and Sorting of Exporting and Importing Firms: Theory and Evidence. Journal of International Economics; Vol 131 July 2021. ​ [LINK TO JOURNAL] [LOCAL PDF]                                                                                                                                                  ​
• Labor Earnings Inequality in Manufacturing during the Great Depression, with Nicolas Ziebarth and Chris Vickers. The Journal of Economic History; Vol 20, Issue 2, June 2020. [LINK TO JOURNAL]                                                                                                                             
• The 2020 Trade Collapse: Exporters Amid the Pandemic. Economics Letters; Vol. 205, Aug. 2021. [LINK TO JOURNAL]                                                                        

                                                          Working Papers 
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• ​The Transmission of Commodity Price Super-Cycles, with Felipe Saffie and Sergio Urzua. NBER Working Paper No. 24560. Revise and Resubmit (2nd round) at the Review of Economic Studies. [LOCAL PDF]

 

• Productivity and Trade Dynamics in Sudden Stops, with Felipe Saffie and Hidehiko Matsumoto. Presented at the "Financial frictions: Macroeconomic implications and policy options for emerging economies" organized by the IDB, CBCh, and the Journal of International Economics. [LOCAL PDF]                                                                                                                                                        
• Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War, with Jaerim Choi, Deborah Swenson, and Mingzhi Xu. NBER Working Paper No. 27920.  Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics. [NBER Version]                                                                                                                                                                                          
• Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap, with Josh Ederington. Revise and Resubmit at the Canadian Journal of Economics. [LOCAL PDF]                                                                                                                                                                               
• The Impact of NAFTA on U.S. Local Labor Market Employment [pdf]  [@SSRN]   Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Human Resources.

 

• The Global Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War: Firm-level Evidence [pdf] Revise and Resubmit at the Review of World Economics


• Dissecting the Impact of the 2018-2019 Trade War on U.S. Exports [pdf], with Felipe Saffie

 

• The Impact of the 2018-2019 Trade War on U.S. Local Labor Markets [SSRN Working Paper] with Felipe Saffie

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• Worker Adjustment to Trade Shocks: Where you Work or What you Do? [pdf]

                                                            Classes Taught                                                                    

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

          Please find the materials for these courses on Canvas. 

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