Spencer Family Professor of Economics, Associate Professor

My primary research interests focus on the intersection of international trade and environmental economics. I study how firm-level responses to trade liberalization and to environmental regulation have contributed to the decline in the emission intensity of the manufacturing sector that has been observed in most advanced economies, how environmental regulations have affected the international competitiveness of exporters, and how international trade and economic growth interact in determining cross-country differences in pollution.

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Assistant Professor

I am a quantitative macro economist, combining theory, data and computational methods to understand various facets of markets and the macro economy. Much of my work lies at the intersection of firms and workers, studying entrepreneurship, firm dynamics and wealth. Recent papers examine the role of business re-sale in entrepreneurial decisions or how consumer learning about product quality explains patterns of firm dynamics.

Additional areas of study apply quantitative methods to policy areas of interest, such as understanding the racial wealth gap or characterizing the relationship between circularity and economic growth. I also believe strongly in the need for students to learn quantitative skills, designing the MAEP Macroeconomics course I teach around Python applications

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