Welcome to my website! I’m a professor at PSE and a research fellow at the CNRS. I’m also a research affiliate at the CEPR.
My research focuses on macroeconomics and heterogeneity, with emphasis on fiscal policy.
Call for papers! Heterogeneous Agents in Macroeconomic Models, Prague, May 16-17, 2024
Working papers
The Heterogeneous Effects of Government Spending: It’s All About Taxes, with G. Navarro, Accepted at Review of Economic Studies, Mar 2024
Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards, with D. Sachs and P. Grübener, Mar 2024
Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition, with G. Navarro and R. Reyes-Heroles
Research in progress
The Intangible Borrowing Constraint of Entrepreneurship, with L. Allub, L. Franjo and Y. Zheng
Publications
On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity, with P. Grübener, G. Navarro and O. Vardishvili, Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, Jun 2023
Fiscal Austerity in Ambiguous Times, with A. Karantounias, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Jan 2019 [online appendix]
Pareto Weights as Wedges in Two-Country Models, with D. Backus, C. Coleman and S. Lyon, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Nov 2016
Risk and Ambiguity in Business Cycle Models, with D. Backus and S. Zin, Journal of Monetary Economics, Jan 2015
Other publications
Comments on “Capital Income Taxation with Housing”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Jun 2020
Dormant research
Sovereign Default, Inequality, and Progressive Taxation
Education, Frisch Elasticity, and Incentives, with J. A. Blanco