Felipe Benguria

                                

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

 

• 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]  [summary in french]. American Economic Review: Insights; Vol 2, No. 4, Dec. 2020.                                                                                                                                                                                 
• The Matching and Sorting of Exporting and Importing Firms: Theory and Evidence [pdf]. Forthcoming, Journal of International Economics.
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• 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.                                                                                                                                                      

                                                          Working Papers 
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• ​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 Impact of NAFTA on U.S. Local Labor Market Employment [pdf]  [@SSRN]   

 

• 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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• Productivity and Trade Dynamics in Sudden Stops, with Felipe Saffie and Hidehiko Matsumoto. [SSRN Working Paper]

 

• 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] (This paper subsumes The Negative Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War on Chinese Firms) 

 

• The Global Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War: Firm-level Evidence [pdf]

  

• Decomposing the Effect of Trade on the Gender Wage Gap [pdf], with Josh Ederington. Revise and Resubmit at the Canadian Journal of Economics.

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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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