Research
Research
Published and Forthcoming Papers - All Data and Code linked below or available upon request after publication
Financial Frictions at Entry, Average Firm Size, and Productivity (with Ashantha Ranasinghe)
The Role of Nonemployers in Business Dynamism and Aggregate Productivity (with Diego Restuccia)
Female Entrepreneurship in the U.S. 1982 - 2012: Implications for Welfare and Aggregate Output
Barriers to Black Entrepreneurship: Implications for Welfare and Aggregate Output Over Time (with Sunju Hwang)
Easier to Start, Harder to Succeed: Barriers to Black Entrepreneurship Since the Great Recession (with Sunju Hwang)
Trade Without 'Scale Effects'
Quantifying the Effects of Patent Protection on Innovation, Imitation, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countries (with Diego Restuccia)
Competition, Innovation, and the Number of Firms
Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity (with Diego Restuccia)
Niche Firms, Mass Markets, and Income Across Countries: Accounting for the Impact of Entry Costs
Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Schumpeter Meets Hayek in a Model of Innovation
Working Papers
Gender Gaps in Time Use and Entrepreneurship (with Lin Shao and Faisal Sohail)
R&R at Journal of the European Economic Association
Work in Progress
Establishments and Firms Across Countries
Seminar and Conference Presentations
2025: Texas Tech University
2024: Rice University; Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington D.C.
2023: Utah State University; Canadian Macro Study Group Annual Meeting, Queen's University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (virtual)
2022: ASSA Annual Meeting, Boston (virtual); Midwest Macro Meetings, Utah State University; Central Bank of Chile (virtual); University of Connecticut (virtual); Southern Economic Association Meetings, Fort Lauderdale
2021: SED Conference, Minneapolis
2020: European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Nottingham (virtual); Texas A&M University; University of Texas at Austin; North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, San Diego
2019: Midwest Macro Meetings, Michigan State University; RCEA Growth, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University; Texas A&M University; University of Texas at Austin
2018: Firm Dynamics and Economic Growth Conference, Bank of Italy; University of Texas at Austin; University of Toronto; Productivity Dynamics, Firm Growth and Factor Reallocation Workshop, Central Bank of Chile; National University of Singapore; Texas Monetary Conference, University of Texas at Austin (Discussant); University of Manitoba; ASSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2017: University of Texas at Austin; Midwest Macro Meetings, University of Pittsburgh; University of Houston; Western University; CEA Annual Conference, St. Francis Xavier University; Midwest Macro Meetings, Louisiana State University; Texas Monetary Conference, Southern Methodist University (Discussant); Sam Houston State University
2016: Western University; SAET Conference, Rio de Janeiro
2015: RIDGE Workshop on Growth and Development, Montevideo; University of Texas at Austin; Midwest Macro Meetings, University of Rochester; Texas Monetary Conference, University of Houston (Discussant); SAET Conference, University of Cambridge; SED Conference, University of Warsaw; Midwest Macro Meetings, Washington University in St. Louis; Texas A&M University; George Washington University; World Bank; ASSA Annual Meeting, Boston
2014: SCID/IGC Conference, Stanford University; University of Pittsburgh; Southern Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta; University of Toronto; CEA Annual Conference, Simon Fraser University
2013: Midwest Macro Meetings, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne; University of Toronto; University of Pittsburgh
Previous: Midwest Macro Meetings, Vanderbilt University (2011); CEA Annual Conference, University of Ottawa (2011); EconCon, Princeton University (2010)