David Kohn
Head of Big Data Analytics Department
Monetary Policy Division, Central Bank of Chile
Associate Professor of Economics
Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Ph.D. in Economics, New York University
Contact:
Email: davidkohn@uc.cl
Phone: (+56) 95504 7730
Avda. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, 7820436, Chile
Research interests: Macro-finance, international macroeconomics, and international trade.
Video: My research agenda on financial frictions and export dynamics (in Spanish)
Publications
No Credit, No Gain: Trade Liberalization Dynamics, Production Inputs, and Financial Development [published, pdf, appendix, files for replication], joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup, International Economic Review, v. 64, n. 2, pp. 809--836, 2023.
Premio Academia Nacional de Ciencias Economicas Dr. Julio H. G. Olivera, Argentina 2022 [pdf]
Financial Frictions and International Trade: A Review [published, pdf, slides], joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, May 2022.
Trade in Commodities and Business Cycle Volatility [published, pdf, appendix, files for replication, article], joint with Fernando Leibovici and Håkon Tretvoll, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, v. 13, n. 3, July 2021.
Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations [published, pdf, appendix, files for replication, webinar, article], joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup, Journal of International Economics, v. 122, January 2020, 103257.
Financial Frictions and New Exporter Dynamics [published, pdf, appendix, files for replication, article], joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup, International Economic Review, v. 57, n. 2, pp. 453--486, 2016.
International Capital Flows and House Prices: Theory and Evidence [pdf, files for replication], joint with Jack Favilukis, Sydney Ludvigson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Housing and the Financial Crisis, NBER Cambridge, MA. Chapter 8, 2013.
Working Papers & Work in Progress
Addicted to Debt: Foreign Purchases of U.S. Treasuries and the Term Premium [pdf]
Trade and Sovereign Default, joint with Eugenia Andreasen and Guido Sandleris.
International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics, joint with Emiliano Luttini, Michal Szkup and Shengxing Zhang.
International Trade and Costly Adjustment to Sudden Stops, joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup.