David Kohn

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.

• Trade Credit and International Trade: The Role of Long-Term Relationships, joint with Emiliano Luttini, Michal Szkup and Shengxing Zhang.

• International Trade and Costly Adjustment to Sudden Stops, joint with Fernando Leibovici and Michal Szkup.