Felix Tintelnot
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Felix Tintelnot
@FelixTintelnot
Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University. Dad.



Spatial models calibrated to observed flows suffer overfitting problems in granular settings. @TradeDiversion & @FelixTintelnot diagnose the problem, show data smoothing performs better, and introduce a finite model to quantify counterfactual uncertainty. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…



Very much enjoyed hosting and learning from @HansbergRossi and Eduardo Morales in another edition of Devils & Wolves seminar @NCState! Thanks to all co-organizers @dix_rafael @AndrewG_PhD @FedericoHuneeus @LucaOpromolla @FelixTintelnot @DanielYiXu @YasuKoike_Mori and Can Tian!











@SeanKongXL studies how supplier-buyer learning drives productivity growth in endogenous networks. He shows that firms upgrade networks to learn from productive partners, amplifying welfare gains from trade. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/xian… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Excellent paper, showing how, even when foreign producers eat some US tariff costs (here, 25%), American consumers end up paying MORE than the full tariff amount bc of local supply chain markups (which are "a common feature of all goods transactions in the United States"):





