Working Papers
Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown (Revise & Resubmit at AEJ: Macro)
Merger Policy for Platforms: A Growth Theory Perspective, with Federico Puglisi and Liangjie Wu
Ideas and Firm Dynamics When It Takes Two to Tango, with Seula Kim and Honghao Wang
Gender Divergence in Sectors of Work, with Titan Alon and Sena Coskun
This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in Recessions, with Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, and Michèle Tertilt
Media coverage: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Planet Money, New York Times, CNN, BBC, Quartz, Forbes, Bloomberg, NPR, The Economist; video interview with PBS' To the Contrary; radio interview with WBEZ
Work in Progress
Innovation without Diffusion: The Platform Growth Paradox, with Federico Puglisi and Liangjie Wu. Supported by Prometeia
Publications
Country banks and the Panic of 1825 with Giorgio Ravalli, Explorations in Economic History, Volume 101, July 2026. Data and replication code
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality, with Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, and Michèle Tertilt, Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 4, 62-85, April 2020.
Short version: VoxEU
How Effective Are Macroprudential Policies? An Empirical Investigation, with Ozge Akinci, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Volume 33, p. 33-57, January 2018.
Non-Refereed Publications
Comment on Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women by Claudia Goldin, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2022: 126-135.
Older Working Papers
Sector-Specific Shocks and the Expenditure Elasticity Channel During the COVID-19 Crisis, with Ana Danieli, May 2020