Publications

Journal articles:

2. Sovereign Debt Sustainability and Central Bank Credibility (with Jeromin Zettelmeyer), Annual Review of Financial Economics, 14, 2022. 

3.  On the Macroeconomic Consequences of Over-Optimism (with Paul Beaudry), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 14, 2022. 

4. What Do Monetary Contractions Do? Evidence From Large Tightenings, Review of Economic Dynamics, 38, 2020. 

5. A note on optimal experimentation under risk aversion, Journal of Economic Theory, 179, 2019 (with Godfrey Keller and Vladimir Novak). 

6. Dictators walking the Mogadishu line: how men become monsters and monsters become men, World Bank Economic Review, 32 (3), 2018 (with Shaun Larcom and Mare Sarr). 

7. The benefits of forced experimentation: striking evidence from the London underground network, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132 (4), 2017 (with Shaun Larcom and Ferdinand Rauch).

        Also see our Vox-EU column on this paper: http://www.voxeu.org/article/benefits-forced- 
experimentation 

        Selected media coverage: Sendhil Mullainathan's column in The New York Times, Tim Harford's column in The Financial Times, 

        Article in The Financial Times, Article in The Economist, Article in The Times, Article in The Independent, Article in The Evening Standard, Comment in The 

        Spectator, Article in The Stack, Article in The Week, Editor's Choice in Science. 

8. Dissecting Fiscal Multipliers under the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, European Economic Review, 95, 2017 (with Peder Beck-Friis). 

9. Actively learning by pricing: a model of an experimenting seller, Economic Journal, 127, 2017.

10. Learning dynamics and the support for economic reforms: why good news can be bad, World Bank Economic Review, 30, 2016 (with Sweder van Wijnbergen).

11. Optimal learning on climate change: why climate skeptics should reduce emissions, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 70, 2015 (with Sweder van Wijnbergen).

12. Analyzing the effects of U.S. monetary policy shocks in dollarized countries, European Economic Review, 61, 2013.

13. Imperfect information, lagged labour adjustment, and the Great Moderation, Oxford Economic Papers, 65, 2013 (with Sweder van Wijnbergen).

Book chapters:

1. Public Debt Sustainability (with Xavier Debrun, Jonathan Ostry, and Charles Wyplosz), in: Ali Abbas, Alex Pienkowski, and Kenneth Rogoff (eds.), Sovereign Debt: A Guide for Economists and Practitioners, 2019. 

2. Time-Consistency and Dictator Punishment: Discretion Rather Than Rules? (with Shaun Larcom and Mare Sarr), in: Tim Besley (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, 2016. 

PhD dissertation:

1. Essays on Optimal Experimentation, 2012.