Dan Ehrlich

About Me

Welcome! I received my Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2025. I was a visiting scholar at the Columbia Business School from September 2023 to June 2024 and a visiting scholar at the MIT Department of Economics from January 2023 to May 2023. My academic research is at the nexus of models and data, combining structural models with original surveys, big data, and a range of machine learning, causal inference, and experimental methods.

Working Papers

1. Food Loss in Agricultural Value Chains
   [Abstract] [Paper]

2. Scaling Financial Interventions in Space
   with Robert Townsend (MIT)
   [Abstract] [Paper]

3. Trade-Financial Linkages and Regional Risk Sharing
   with Masao Fukui (BU) and Robert Townsend (MIT)
   Draft Coming Soon!
   [Abstract]

Work in Progress

1. A Bank on Every Corner: Relationship Lending and Firm Dynamics
   with Vishan Nigam (MIT)
   [Abstract] [Slides]

2. Scope vs Scale: The Dynamics of Misallocation
   with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (UChicago) and Chang-Tai Hsieh (UChicago)
   [Abstract]

Teaching

• Topics in Macroeconomics, Nancy Stokey, undergraduate, Fall 2020
• Macroeconomics II, Mikhail Golosov, graduate, Winter 2021
• Macroeconomics III, Fernando Alvarez, graduate, Spring 2021
• International Trade, Felix Tintelnot, undergraduate, Winter 2022
• Development Economics, Srinivasan Vasudevan, undergraduate, Summer 2022