Papers & Discussions

Working Papers

[New!] Do Deficits Cause Inflation? A High Frequency Narrative Approach
(with Stephan Hobler), March 2024

[New!] LASH Risk and Interest Rates
(with Laura Alfaro, Saleem Bahaj, Robert Czech and Ioana Neamțu), May 2024

[Recently updated!] Bonus Question: How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Wage Rigidity?
(with Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby and Abdoulaye Ndiaye), May 2024
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[Recently updated!]  Dynamics of the Long Term Housing Yield: Evidence from Natural Experiments
(with Verónica Bäcker-Peral and Atif Mian), April 2024
Coverage: Financial Times
Replication package
Real time estimates

[Recently updated!]  National Wage Setting (slides)
(with Christina Patterson, Heather Sarsons and Bledi Taska), March 2024
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
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Firm name cleaning code

Downward Rigidity in the Wage for New Hires (slides)
(with Bledi Taska), October 2023
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
Coverage: Marginal Revolution, Joint Economic Committee (US Senate)

Publications

The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States (slides)
(with Juan Herreño, Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson), August 2022
Quarterly Journal of Economics [lead article]
Online Appendix
Link to database of state level inflation
Coverage: The Economist, Paul Krugman (Substack), Noah Smith (Bloomberg View), Chicago Fed speech, New York Times, Full Stack Economics
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Replication Package

Unemployment Insurance Financing as a Uniform Payroll Tax (slides)
(with Sebastian Graves, Walker Lewis and Christina Patterson), May 2022
American Economic Association, Papers & Proceedings

AI and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies (slides)
(with Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Pascual Restrepo), April 2022
Journal of Labor Economics
Coverage: The Economist, VoxeuThe Washington Post
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Systemic Risk Shifting in Financial Networks (slides)
(with Matthew Elliott and Co-Pierre Georg), January 2021
Journal of Economic Theory
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Discussions

[New!] It's Baaack: The Surge in Inflation in the 2020s and the Return of the Non-Linear Phillips Curve
By Pierpaolo Benigno & Gauti Eggertsson
Reykjavik Economic Conference

[New!] Can Supply Shocks Be Inflationary with a Flat Phillips Curve?
By Jean-Paul L’Huillier & Gregory Phelan
Deutsche Bundesbank Conference on Structural Change and Implications for Inflation

[New!] The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation
By Paul Beaudry, Chenyu Hou and Franck Portier
NBER Macroeconomics Annual Conference, April 2024

Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications
By Luca Gagliardone, Mark Gertler, Simone Lenzu and Joris Tielens
European Central Bank Inflation Conference, September 2023

The Unemployment-Inflation Trade-off Revisited: The Phillips Curve in COVID Times
By Richard K. Crump, Stefano Eusepi, Marc Giannoni and Ayşegül Şahin
Journal of Monetary Economics-Swiss National Bank-Gerzensee Study Center Conference, October 2022

Search Demand Effects, Equilibrium Unemployment and a Wage Phillips Curve
By Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Etienne Wasmer and Philippe Weil
AMSE-BdF Macro Workshop, December 2020