Research
Under Review
The Economic Ripple Effects of Covid-19, with Francisco Buera, Hugo Hopenhayn, Andy Neumeyer, and Yongseok Shin, Revise and Resubmit Review of Economic Studies
The Dynamics of Development: Innovation and Reallocation, with Francisco Buera, conditionally accepted AEJ: Macroeconomics
Publications
Entry Barriers, Idiosyncratic Distortions, and the Firm-Size Distribution, AEJ: Macroeconomics vol. 14, No 2, April 2022
[printable version] [published article]
Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance: Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications, with Pierre Bachas and Anders Jensen, Journal of Development Economics , vol. 140, September 2019
Taxing the Good? Distortions, Productivity, and Misallocation in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Xavier Cirera and Hibret Maemir, World Bank Economic Review, August 2019
Entry and Exit, Multi-Product Firms, and Allocative Distortions AEJ: Macroeconomics Vol 10 No. 2, April 2018
The Anatomy of a Credit Crunch: from Capital to Labor Markets, with Francisco Buera and Yongseok Shin, Review of Economic Dynamics, January 2015
Entry, Trade Costs and International Business Cycles with Jose Ignacio Lopez, Journal of International Economics 94 (2014), 224-238
[printable version] [online appendix]
Working Papers
On the Welfare Costs of Premature Deindustrialization, November 2022
Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Kaleb Abreha, Xavier Cirera, Elwyn Davies, and Hibret Maemir, September 2022
The Missing Middle in a Broad Cross-Section of Indian Establishments, with Francisco Buera, Reiko Laski, and Nicholas Tracther
Constrained-Efficiency and the Welfare Effects of Misallocation with Hugo Hopenhayn, November 2019