I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department at Harvard University available for interviews on the 2023-24 job market.
I focus on macroeconomics and the economics of firm dynamics, innovation, and entrepreneurship. I study how business dynamism, startup activity, international policy, and new technologies affect increasingly unequal economies. At Harvard, I have been the TA in courses in heterogeneous-agent macro and innovation-based firm dynamics. Here is my research and teaching experience.
In my JMP I find historical changes in startup activity since the 1950s have been driving aggregate investment by shifting the age distribution of US firms over time. Firm aging since the 1980s provides a neoclassical explanation for why investment has been weak despite corporate profitability being high, but the recent resurgence in startup activity after the Great Recession may be setting the stage for a future investment boom.
I also hold an MSc from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Here is my CV.