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.

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.