Research
Publications:
"Rewarding the Rich: Cross Subsidies from Interchange Fees" (with Efraim Berkovich), Hispanic Leadership Fund Report, May 2022
"Trade and Real Wages of the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico," IDB Working Paper Series, November 2019
"Essays on International Trade, Welfare and Inequality," EXIM Bank Occasional Papers, July 2018
Working Papers
"Interest Deductibility and Capital Investment" (with Efraim Berkovich)
"Trade and Real Wages of the Rich and Poor: Cross-Region Evidence", 2017 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists - honorable mention, 2017 IPUMS International Research Award
"Imported Inputs and Sectoral Wage Dispersion" (with Feiran Zhang)
"The Causal Effect of Firm-Level Market-Specific Imports on Exports" (with Mi Dai)
"Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Income" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), slides for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users' Workshop
Blogs
"Recent Rise in Gas Prices Offsets Some Households' Gains from Tax Cuts"
"Trading Tangible for Intangible: The Incentives Created by GILTI and FDII in the TCJA"
"The Effects of Changes to Immigration Policy on the United States' Population"
"The Trade War Trade-Off: Short Term Gains Then Long Term Losses"
"The Trade War Trade-Off: Foreign Ownership of American Business Actually Rises"
"Are Tariffs a Drag? Trade War Pushes Interest Rates Up, Economy Down"
"Short-Term Economic Effects of a "Phase 4" Infrastructure Response to Coronavirus"
"Business Taxation in the Biden Tax Plan"
“Decline of Globalism: Capital Flows Update”
"Impact of Inflation by Household Income"
"Did Wages Keep Up With Inflation in 2021?"
"Effects of a Federal Gas Tax Holiday"
"Three-Month Federal Gas Tax Holiday: Estimated Cost Reductions to Households"
Briefs
"Senator Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Tax: Budgetary and Economic Effects"
"Short-Run Economic Effects of the CARES Act"
“PWBM Analysis of the Biden Platform”
“Background: Marginal Propensities to Consume in the 2021 Economy”
“Macroeconomic Effects of the $1.9 Trillion Biden COVID Relief Plan”
"Direct Aid in the Biden COVID Relief Plan: Budgetary and Distributional Effects"
“Corporate debt: Historical Perspective and Options for Reducing Interest Deductibility”
“President Biden’s American Families Plan: Budgetary and Macroeconomic Effects”
“Profit Shifting and the Global Minimum Tax”
“Incentives to Shift U.S. Multinational Profits to Foreign Countries under Tax Changes”
"Effects of a State Gasoline Tax Holiday"