I am an applied economist. My research covers a range of topics in political economy, macroeconomics and applied econometrics.
I work as an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.
I serve as an Associate Editor for Reviews of Economic Literature and Review of Keynesian Economics, and previously at the Journal of Economic Surveys (2020-2024) and the Review of Social Economy (2018-2023).
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Publications:
- "A Local Projections Approach to Difference-in-Differences" (with Arin Dube, Oscar Jorda and Alan M. Taylor)
Journal of Applied Econometrics , Vol 40, Issue 7, pp.741-758, 2025
[Slides] - [Published article] - [NBER Working paper] - [STATA/R implementation]
- "Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions" (with Susanne Wengle and Roberto Veneziani)
World Development , Vol.196, 2025
[Paper]
- "The neoclassical theory of aggregate investment and its criticisms"
Review of Political Economy , in press
[Paper]
- "Great expectations: a tale of two transitions—a survey of the evidence on expectations in transition economies" (with Roberto Veneziani and Susanne Wengle)
Journal of Economics , Vol.145, Issue 3, pp.193–225, 2025
[Paper]
- "Does studying economics make you selfish?" (with Sai Madhurika Mamunuru, Simon Halliday and Samuel Bowles)
Southern Economic Journal , Vol.90, Issue 3, pp. 792-814, Jan 2024
[Paper] - [Slides]
- "Partisanship and Local Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Cities" (with Raphael Rocha Gouvea)
Journal of Development Economics, vol.150, May 2021
[Paper - Ungated - Slides - Replication files]
- "Partisan shocks and financial markets: evidence from close national elections"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol.12, N.4, Oct 2020
[Paper - Slides - Presidential elections dataset - Replication files - Video Interview ]
- "Reverse hysteresis? Persistent effects of autonomous demand expansions" (with Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati)
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 835–869, 2020
[ Paper and supplementary materials ]
- "Autonomous demand and the investment share" (with Riccardo Pariboni)
Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 428–453, 2020
[Paper - Ungated version - Slides]
- "Normal Utilization as the Adjusting Variable in Neo-Kaleckian Growth Models: A Critique" (with Riccardo Pariboni)
Metroeconomica, vol.70, n.2, pp.341-358, 2019
[Paper]
- "Institution shocks and economic outcomes: Allende's election, Pinochet's coup and the Santiago stock market" (with Samuel Bowles)
Journal of Development Economics, vol.134, pp. 16-27, 2018
[Paper - Slides - Replication files ]
- "Long-run effective demand in the US economy" (with Riccardo Pariboni)
Review of Political Economy, Vol.28, n.4, pp.523-544, 2016
[Paper]
- "Financialization of Food. Modelling the time-varying relation between agricultural prices and stock-market dynamics"
International Review of Applied Economics, vol.29, n.4, pp.482-505, 2015
[Paper]
- "Do financial investors affect the price of wheat?"
PSL Quarterly Review, Vol. 65 No. 260, pp.79-109, 2012
[Paper]
Software:
- "LPDID : Stata module implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD)" (with Alexander Busch, in collaboration with Arin Dube, Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor)
[Package listing on SSC]