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Economista @bcentralchile. Antes @umich, @uchile

Chile
Joined March 2012
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So happy that our paper on the effects of Chinese Macro Surprises on global markets is finally out at the @JIntlEcon! Amazing team and such a nice outcome!
New at JIE: "Global Finacial Spillovers of Chinese Macroeconomic Surprises" by Camila Gutierrez (@camigutir), Javier Turen (@javier_turen), Alejandro Vicondoa (@ale_vicondoa) doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.20…
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New in Economic Modelling: "Fiscal Consolidations in Commodity-Exporting Countries: A Small Open Economy DSGE Perspective," by Manuel González-Astudillo (Federal Reserve Board), Juan Guerra-Salas (Central Bank of Chile) & Avi Lipton (Harvard). sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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📢 Call for Papers: Future of Inflation & Currency Risks 📍 Santiago, May 3–4, 2027 Joint #CEBRA IFM/ITM conference @bcentralchile 🎤 Keynote: Oleg Itskhoki 📅 Deadline: Sept 15, 2026 Org. Committee: Sofia Bauducco, Julian di Giovanni, Mariana García, Galina Hale, Andrei Levchenko 👉 Details: cebra.org/cfp-future-of-infl… #EconTwitter #Macro #InternationalFinance #Inflation
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Our paper "Beyond Costs: The Dominant Role of Strategic Complementarities in Pricing" is finally out at the JME! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…. How important are strategic complementarities (SC) in pricing? Firms respond more to their own costs or to their competitors' prices? (1/6)
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3) They are state-dependent: stronger when inflation is high. 4) They are asymmetric: firms react faster to competitor price than decreases. 5) They scale with market structure: larger firms with fewer competitors and broader customer bases respond more strongly. (5/6)
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Implications: monetary policy transmission depends not only on nominal rigidities but on the network of strategic pricing interactions across firms. (6/6)
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Marco Rojas retweeted
Buscamos Analista en el Departamento de Análisis de Información Masiva en la Division de Política Monetaria del @bcentralchile Si eres graduado/a de economía/ingeniería comercial con interés en el uso de microdatos para análisis económico, postula👇 linkedin.com/jobs/view/44405…
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📢 ¡Estamos contratando! 🏦 En @bcentralchile estamos buscando 1 analista (similar a RA, pre-doc) 👩‍💼🧑‍💼Gran ambiente laboral, exposición a temas de frontera en economía, increíbles datos, y apoyo para estudiar fuera 📅 Postula hasta el 01/06 bcentral.cl/oportunidades-de…
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Please consider applying to the 5th Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Markets South Africa, University of Pretoria 14-15 Jan 2027 Keynote: @YGorodnichenko Deadline: 15 September 2026 Funding for academic speakers is available
📢#CallForPapers - 5th ASB/Banco Central de Chile/CEPR/ERSA Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Markets 📆14-15 Jan 2027 |📍 @UPTuks, Pretoria, South Africa ⌛Deadline: 15 Sep 2026 Sofia Bauducco @bcentralchile, @RefetGurkaynak, Özer Karagedikli @ASBedu_official, @ricco_giovanni, Nicola Viegi @UPTuks ow.ly/SSgH50YVqJw
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Check out the new edition of "Research Highlights".   This publication offers a summary of recent research conducted at the Central Bank of Chile. Read it at: bit.ly/42d5XiI
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🚨 Forthcoming in Econometrica! How does trade liberalization affect developing countries with large informal sectors? Informality fundamentally changes how we think about the gains from trade. (1/5)
In settings with high informality, the gains from trade are significantly amplified by reductions in misallocation. During economic downturns, the informal sector acts as a buffer against unemployment but leads to larger aggregate real-income losses. econometricsociety.org/publi…
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Check out the new edition of "Research Highlights".   This publication offers a summary of recent research conducted at the Central Bank of Chile. Read it at: bit.ly/49MKiSX
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RIP dear John Leahy. An extremely insightful and fun economist. I took this photo of him in Rome. He stood up there, his usual extroverted self and declared to all that he was an archangel on a mission.
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We are delighted to host the 4th Workshop on Macroeconomic Policy in Emerging Markets, organized by CEPR, ERSA, the Asia School of Business, and the Central Bank of Chile. The event will take place on January 8 and 9, 2026.
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Luis, you're the kindest!
Second day at Santiago Macro Workshop organized by @CBChileresearch and @IE_UC Thanks to organizers @marcorojas89 & Javier Turén, for this great program . 🇨🇱📚 sites.google.com/view/santia…
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