Working Papers
"Structural Reforms in the Shadow of Debt Overhang: A Quantitative Perspective," with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, CEPR Discussion Paper 19545, Sep 2024. https://cepr.org/publications/dp19545
"Income Redistribution with Endogenous Social Identity," with Christian Ghiglino, CEPR Discussion Paper 18638, July 2025 (v.2). https://cepr.org/publications/dp18638
Published Papers:
"A Theory of Structural Change That Can Fit the Data," with Simon Alder and Timo Boppart, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 14(2), pp. 160-206, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20190303
Supplementary materials: Online Appendix, Replication files; Earlier version: CEPR Discussion Paper 13469 and CEPR Online Appendix.
"Class Altruism and Redistribution," with Christian Ghiglino and David Juárez-Luna, The Economic Journal, 131(November), pp. 3274–95, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab022
Supplementary materials: Replication files; Working paper version: CEPR Discussion Paper 15793.
"Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms," with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, American Economic Review, 109(12), pp. 4220-59, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161457
Supplementary materials: Online Appendix, Replication files ('Data Set'); Related media articles: VoxEu, NZZ; Earlier version: CEPR Discussion Paper 10588.
"The Political Color of Fiscal Responsibility," with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Journal of the European Economic Association, 14(1), pp. 252-302, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeea.12154
Supplementary materials: Online Appendix, Replication Files. Related media article (updated analysis to 2018): VoxEu.
"Structural Development Accounting," with Gino Gancia and Fabrizio Zilibotti, in Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Tenth World Congress, pp. 373-418, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060028.010
Supplementary materials: Appendix, Replication Files.
Dormant Papers
Knowledge Exchange:
"Navigating the World of Sovereign Debt," SFI Roundup No 1, April 2025. https://www.sfi.ch/en/publications/sfi-ru-sovereign-debt-20250410
"The political colour of fiscal responsibility: Trump's fiscal policy is in the wake of Republican tradition," with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, VoxEu.org, 12 November, 2019. (Italian version on lavoce.info)
"Pragmatism, the Greek crisis, and structural reforms: What theory says," with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, VoxEu.org, May 27, 2015.
"Grexit ist der falsche Weg," (in German) with Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2015.