Alvaro Silva

Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

My interests lie on international macroeconomics with a focus on propagation and aggregation.

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About Working Papers Work in Progress Publications Pre-Ph.D. Publications Datasets

Working Papers

Inflation in Disaggregated Small Open Economies

September 2024

Pandemic-Era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers

with di Giovanni, Kalemli-Özcan, and Yıldırım. July 2024

Startup Employment and Career Trajectories

with Garcia-Trujillo and Gonzalez-Prieto. April 2023.

Work in Progress

Optimal Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Disaggregated Small Open Economies

Sectoral Working Capital Constraints and Measured Total Factor Productivity in Emerging Markets

Revisiting Terms of Trade Shocks in Small Open Economies

with Miranda-Pinto

Publications

Commodity Prices and Production Networks in Small Open Economies

with Caraiani, Miranda-Pinto, and Olaya-Agudelo

Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024.

Business Cycle Asymmetry and Input-Output Structure: The Role of Firm-to-Firm Networks

with Miranda-Pinto and Young

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023.

Other Publications

Quantifying the Inflationary Impact of Fiscal Stimulus under Supply Constraints

with di Giovanni, Kalemli-Özcan, and Yıldırım

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023.

Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade, and Inflation

with di Giovanni, Kalemli-Özcan, and Yıldırım

Proceedings of the ECB Forum on Central Banking: "Challenges for Monetary Policy in a Rapidly Changing World", 2022

Price Controls, Hyperinflation and the Inflation - Relative Price Variability Relationship

with Cerda and Luders

Empirical Economics, 2020.

Towards Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty in Latin America: A First Little Step

Latin American Policy Journal, 2018.

School Funding in Chile

with Urzua

In Ideas en Educación II: Definiciones en Tiempos de Cambio, 2018.

Impact of Economic Uncertainty in a Small Open Economy: The Case of Chile

with Cerda and Valente

Applied Economics, 2017.

Datasets

Economic Uncertainty Indices

I helped to construct two economic uncertainty indices for Chile prior to my Ph.D. I am not in charge of updating them anymore but they are regularly updated by colleagues. Feel free to use it and remember to cite our work!