Working Papers
"Automation and Polarization," with Daron Acemoglu, 2025, Accepted, Journal of Political Economy.
Low-pay jobs have been shielded from automation to some extent in the past because wages were low, but future automation threatens these jobs as well.
"Redistributive Income Taxation with Directed Technical Change," 2022.
Progressive income tax reforms can reduce inequality in pre-tax wages through directed technical change effects.
Awarded the Musgrave Prize at the IIPF conference in 2019 and the Reinhard Selten Award at the VfS conference in 2020.
"Inefficiency and Regulation in Credence Goods Markets with Altruistic Experts," with Razi Farukh and Anna Kerkhof, 2020.
Entry restrictions can yield Pareto gains on markets for credence goods when experts have an empirically plausible form of social preferences.