This dissertation identifies and explains a number of fundamental changes in the postwar US economy. In Chapter 1, I formalize and quantify the secular stagnation …
This dissertation is comprised of three self-contained chapters on the determinants of economic development over the medium-to-long run. In the first chapter, I examine how …
This dissertation consists of four self-contained chapters connected to the financial crisis and its aftermath. The first chapter investigates the effect of higher capital requirements …
This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters studying households and their interactions with the labor market. In the first chapter, I study the determinants of …
This dissertation explores the effects of monetary policy on price dynamics, price dispersion, and inequality. In the first chapter, an efficient algorithm is introduced to …
This dissertation comprises of three self-contained chapters on macroeconomic policy when the nominal interest rate is bounded by an effective lower bound - a scenario …
The dissertation is formed of two papers in international macro-finance and one paper in monetary economics. In the first paper, using data covering forty-four countries …
The extent to which fixed natural resources effect economic growth in the face of population growth has been a widely discussed topic in economics since …
This dissertation explores the relationship between inflation and economic activity through the lens of the Phillips curve. The Phillips curve is the backbone of nominal …
This dissertation consists of two essays studying how the exposure of banks to real estate declines impacted the availability of credit and local employment growth …
This dissertation is composed of three essays that examine controversial macroeconomic topics by resolving issues in standard models. We incorporate endogenous equilibrium switching, firm heterogeneity, …
This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters studying the causes and consequences of inequality in macroeconomics. In the first co-authored chapter, we study the distributive …
The subject of this dissertation is financial stability and its role in macroeconomic policy. In the first chapter I study whether it is central bank …
This dissertation is comprised of three self-contained chapters on measurement, causes, and consequences of secular macroeconomic trends of the United States postwar economy. In the …
This dissertation is composed of four essays that study macroeconomic questions in models that depart from standard frameworks by including features, such as household heterogeneity …
