I am a theoretical and applied econometrician, with a focus on semiparametric and nonparametric methods, specification testing, treatment effect analysis, and epidemic modeling.
"Causal Forests versus Penalized Splines for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" (2026, joint with Abiodun Musbaudeen and Nency Dhameja), accepted at Economics Letters
"What Does the Infection Fatality Rate Really Measure?" (2026), accepted at Observational Studies
"A Consistent LM-Type Specification Test for Semiparametric Panel Data Models," Journal of Econometric Methods (2026) (working paper version)
"Re-evaluating Augusto Pinochet’s Influence on Chile’s Economic Growth" (joint with Hector Ormeno), Economics Letters (2026) (working paper version)
"A Consistent Heteroskedasticity-Robust LM-Type Specification Test for Semiparametric Models," Journal of Applied Econometrics (2026) (old version)
"Where Did It All Go Wrong for Russia in the 21st Century?" Economics Bulletin (2025)
"On Reduced Form Estimation of the Effect of Policy Interventions on the COVID-19 Pandemic," Econometrics Journal (2022) (appendix)
"How Could Russia Have Developed without the Revolution of 1917?" Annals of Economics and Statistics (2021)
"Identification and Estimation of the SEIRD Epidemic Model for COVID-19," Journal of Econometrics (2021) (working paper version)
"Decomposing the GDP per Capita Gap During Spain’s Democratic Transition" (2026, joint with Cristino Abril De Maya), submitted
"Ski Megapasses and Local Housing Markets" (2026), submitted
"Estimating Semiparametric and Nonparametric Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with mgcv" (2026), submitted
"Instrumental Variables Estimators and Bounds on Treatment Effects" (2026, joint with Frank Wolak)
"Projection-Based Corrections for Consistent Specification Tests" (2026), submitted