Felipe Saffie

Education: B.S. and M.Sc., Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Felipe Saffie is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Global Economies and Markets area at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He teaches macroeconomics in Darden's MBA programs and currently serves as Course Head for GEM II. Before joining Darden in 2020, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.

Saffie's research focuses on international finance, firm dynamics, trade, and economic growth. He studies how global shocks, financial frictions, exchange rates, trade disruptions, and policy interventions shape firm behavior, credit allocation, productivity, and aggregate economic outcomes. His work combines granular microdata with quantitative macroeconomic models.

His research has been published or accepted in leading journals including the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of International Economics. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Monetary Economics, and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia.

He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 and holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. He has held visiting positions at the International Monetary Fund, Sciences Po, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Saffie's Darden Business Publishing materials include cases and technical notes on macroeconomics, economic growth, fiscal policy, market power, tariffs, the role of the dollar, and nearshoring.