Research Associate Professor
Fields: International Trade, Macroeconomics
Joaquín Blaum’s areas of research are international trade and macroeconomics. His work focuses on how heterogeneity matters for macroeconomic outcomes. Joaquín’s recent research studies how sourcing of foreign inputs affects firm and aggregate productivity. In ongoing work, he shows that the interdependence between firms’ import and export behavior is key to understanding how economies adjust to large devaluations. In earlier work, Joaquín studied the effects of wealth inequality on aggregate productivity when financial markets function imperfectly.