Research

Published Papers

"Observational Learning and Firm Dynamics", with Filippo Rebessi, accepted for publication at The Canadian Journal of Economics  [PDF]  

"Business Ownership and the Secondary Market",  [PDF]  Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 51, December 2023 p. 1114-1158

• slides for a presentation at the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) brownbag.  Combines two papers on firm sales.

"The Neoclassical Growth Model and the Labor Share Decline", with Pau S. Pujolas and Joaquin Naval-Navarro [PDF],  The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 21(2), June 2021, 607-628.

Working Papers

"Materials, Technology and Growth: Quantifying the Costs of Circularity", with Marcelo Arbex [PDF] NEW!

"Entrepreneurial Rates of Return and Wealth Inequality", with Bettina Brueggemann, 

Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics  [PDF]

Selected Works in Progress

"Firm Sales and the Firm Life Cycle", with Bettina Brueggemann and Thomas Palmer [PDF] (preliminary and incomplete)

"Redlining and the Racial Wealth Gap: A Quantitative Assessment", with Bettina Brueggemann

"Consumer Learning, Concentration and Markups", with Filippo Rebessi

Dormant Papers

"Optimal Design and Quantitative Evaluation of the Minimum Wage", with Pau S. Pujolas [PDF]

[Online Appendix for Routine Manual Labor Market Construction]