I am an economist with research interests in international trade and macro development. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA.
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management.
I am also an Associate Editor at the Journal of International Economics and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER.
Research Papers
Multinationals, Monopsony, and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company with Esteban Méndez
Econometrica, 2022
Online Appendix. Supplementary Online Appendix. 7-minute summary video by Econimate. Podcast by Trade Talks. Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, Frankfurter Allgemeine, UCLA's Research Spotlight, Cato Institute, VoxDev, Yale Insights
Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador with Fernando Alvarez and David Argente
Science, 2023
NBER Working Paper No. 29968. Media coverage: New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, National Public Radio, Cointelegraph, Christian Science Monitor, Forbes, BBC, CNBC
Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Towards Openness with Esteban Méndez
Review of Economic Studies, 2025
Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption: P2P Digital Payments
with Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, Francesco Lippi, and Esteban Méndez
American Economic Review, revise and resubmit (2nd round)
Cross-Border Product Adoption: Individual Imports, Migrant Networks, and Domestic Retailers
with David Argente and Esteban Méndez
Quarterly Journal of Economics, revise and resubmit
A Theory of Payment-Chain Crisis with Saki Bigio and Esteban Méndez
Econometrica, reject and resubmit
with Lee Ohanian, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarría, and Mark Wright
Other Work
The Dismantling of Capital Controls After Bretton Woods and Latin American Productivity
AEA, Papers and Proceedings, 2022
Global Firms and Local Development with Esteban Méndez
Book Chapter. Prepared for “Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic (and Political) History of Latin America and the Caribbean"
Palgrave, Macmillan. 2022
Work in Progress
De Minimis as a Constraint on Local Retail Market Power with David Argente and Esteban Méndez
Detour Ahead: Market Frictions and Path Dependence in Transport Networks with Marta Santamaría
The Legacy of Corporate Culture: How Multinational Exposure Reshapes Local Identity with Méndez
International Diffusion of Technology: Accounting for Differences in Learning Abilities
Contact
Mailing Address:
Diana Van Patten
Yale School of Management
Evans Hall
165 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Email: diana.vanpatten@yale.edu