Research

"Optimal Public Debt with Life Cycle Motives" (with Will Peterman)
This Version: April 2018
Press: Bloomberg Businessweek

"Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities" (with Olga Timoshenko)
This Version: April 2018

"What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S." (with Xavier Jaravel)
This Version: February 2018
Preliminary and Incomplete. Updated draft in progress.

"Solving the Incomplete Markets Model with Aggregate Uncertainty: The Method of Mixture Distributions"
[New Draft In Progress] [Code forthcoming]
This Version: March 2016

"Development, Volatility and Intertemporal Distortions"
[Revision forthcoming] [Older Working Paper]
 
"On the Irrelevance of Cross-Firm Misallocation in Low-Income Countries"
[Revision forthcoming] [Older Working Paper] [Slides]

PUBLICATIONS
"The Double EMG Distribution and Trade Elasticities" (with Olga Timoshenko)
Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

"What Has Homeland Security Cost? An Assessment: 2001-2005."
(with Bart Hobijn) Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Current Issues in Economics and Finance. Vol. 13, No. 2, February, 2007. 

DISCUSSIONS
Discussion of "The Secular Decline in Business Dynamism in the US" by Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda.
[Slides]