I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Economics program at UCLA Anderson School of Management.
My research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics, international trade, and network economics. My current research focuses on endogenous network formation and how it affects the propagation of shocks and welfare.
I am on the 2026–2027 job market.
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Firms do not buy from the same suppliers forever. Buyer–seller links are formed, sustained, and broken, and that churn reallocates production across the economy. This paper studies how the endogenous formation of production links shapes efficiency and welfare — how much of aggregate performance is determined not by what firms produce, but by whom they choose to trade with.
Using confidential administrative records from Chile, I document high creation and destruction rates of business links, with systematic selection: older relationships are larger and less likely to dissolve, and relationships that begin with larger transactions last longer. I build a general equilibrium model in which the production network emerges from firms’ optimal decisions to establish and maintain customer relationships, estimate it by simulated method of moments, and find that endogenous network formation plays a quantitatively small role for welfare. Compared with a constrained planner, the network externality is theoretically present but quantitatively small.
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