Asilvub - Website

I am a PhD Student in Economics at the University of Maryland College Park.

My main research interests are in International Macroeconomics with a focus on propagation and aggregation.

I will be joining the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in August 2024.

Feel free to reach me via email at asilvub@gmail.com.

Working Papers

Inflation in Disaggregated Small Open Economies

Summary: X - Thread

Pandemic-Era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers

with Julian di Giovanni, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, and Muhammed A. Yıldırım

Other versions: NBER WP 31887, CEPR DP18628, NYFED WP.

Startup Employment and Career Trajectories

with Gonzalo Garcia-Trujillo and Nathalie Gonzalez-Prieto

Other versions: Central Bank of Chile WP978.

Commodity Prices and Production Networks in Small Open Economies

with Petre Caraiani, Jorge Miranda-Pinto, and Juan Olaya-Agudelo

Other versions: Central Bank of Chile WP977.
Slides: CEBRA

Work in Progress

Optimal Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Disaggregated Small Open Economies

Publications

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

with Jorge Miranda-Pinto and Eric R. Young

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023

Published Comment on our paper by Saki Bigio. Check it out!
Media Coverage: Faculti
Other versions: Local PDF

Quantifying the Inflationary Impact of Fiscal Stimulus under Supply Constraints

with Julian di Giovanni, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, and Muhammed A. Yıldırım

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023

Other versions: Local PDF, CEPR WP, NBER WP, NYFED WP.

Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade, and Inflation

with Julian di Giovanni, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, and Muhammed A. Yıldırım

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

Other versions: NBER WP, CEPR WP, NYFED WP
Media coverage: Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, NYFED Blog, VOXEU.
Video: SINTRA Sebnem's Presentation
Slides: NBER IFM Meeting Fall 2022

Pre-Doc Publications

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

with Rodrigo Cerda and Rolf Luders

Empirical Economics, 2021

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

with Rodrigo Cerda and Jose Tomas Valente

Applied Economics, 2018

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

Latin American Policy Journal, 2018

School Funding in Chile

with Sergio Urzua

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

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!