About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Stanford University.
My research interests include macroeconomics, growth, innovation, and firm dynamics.
Prior to starting at Stanford, I studied in economics and mathematics at Emory University and worked as a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Research
Working papers
Sectoral Innovation Complementarities
Job market paper
Idea Rents and Firm Growth
with Timo Boppart, Pete Klenow and Huiyu Li · NBER Working Paper No. 35594
Abstract
Which firms drive aggregate productivity growth? We document that firms with high price-earnings ratios tend to see increases in their subsequent earnings relative to sales, which we interpret as rents from ideas (innovation). We construct an endogenous growth model with shocks to firm innovation step-sizes and R&D efficiency and calibrate it to match patterns in the data. The model implies that growth would be much lower, even with the same innovative effort, if firms had the same step sizes. We find that the share of growth coming from smaller listed firms substantially exceeds their sales share.
Work in progress
The Growth Implications of Heterogeneous Firm-to-Firm Knowledge Spillovers
with Emmanuella Kyei Manu
Other writing
Why Don’t Low-Income Countries Adopt More Productive Technologies?
with Nicholas Trachter · Richmond Fed Economic Brief No. 21-11 · 2021
The Effect of Lockdown Measures on Unemployment
with Marios Karabarbounis, James Lee and Nicholas Trachter · Richmond Fed Special Report · 2020
Teaching
Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award x3, Stanford Economics.