Research

Publications 

1. Optimal Taxation of Income-Generating Choice (joint with Christopher Sleet) Econometrica, Vol. 90, No.5 (September, 2022), 2397-2436 (Appendix)

2. Not all technological change is equal: how the separability of tasks mediates the effect of technology change on skill demand (joint with Christophe Combemale, Katie Whitefoot and Erica Fuchs) Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 30, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 1361–1387

3. Innovation Tournaments With Multiple Contributors Production and Operations Management, Volume 30, N.6 (2021) 1772-1784 (joint with  Soo-Haeng Cho and Ersin Korpeoglu)

4. Taxing Atlas: Executive Compensation, Firm Size and Their Impact on Optimal Top Income Tax Rates  Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 26  (2017)  62-90 (joint with A. Andres Bellofatto and Jessie Jiaxu Wang)

5. Optimal Award Scheme in Innotvation Tournaments  Operations Research, Volume 65 No. 3 (2017) 693-702  (joint with  Soo-Haeng Cho and Ersin Korpeoglu)

6. Non-Exclusive Dynamic Contracts  and the Limits of Insurance  Journal of Economic Theory, 166 (2016) 362-395 (joint with Pricila Maziero)

7. Taxing Top CEO Incomes The American Economic Review, Volume 106 No. 11 (2016) 3311-3366 (joint with Christopher Sleet)

8. Technical Change, Wage Inequality and Taxes The American Economic Review, Volume 105 No. 10 (2015) 3061-3101 (joint with Musab Kurnaz and Christopher Sleet)

9. A Theory of Political and Economic Cycles  Journal of Economic Theory, 153 (2014) 224-251 (joint with Pricila Maziero, Pierre Yared) - APPENDIX

10. Revision Proofness  Journal of Economic Theory, 152 (2014) 324-355 (joint with Christopher Sleet)

11. A Model of Banknote Discounts  Journal of Economic Theory, 142 (2008) 5-27 (joint with Francesca Carapella, Pricila Maziero, Warren Weber) 

Other Publications 

1. Generative AI, Adoption and the Structure of Tasks in Philipp Hacker, and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI, Oxford University Press,  (2025) (joint with Christophe Combemale and Krishnan Ramayya)

2. Discussion of: What is the Optimal Immigration Policy? Migration, Jobs and Welfare by Guerreiro, Rebelo, Teles. Journal of Monetary Economics Volume 105, August (2020)

3. Innovation and Crowdsourcing Contests In Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, Ming Hu (ed.), Springer Series in Supply Chain Management (2018). (joint with  Soo-Haeng Cho and Ersin Korpeoglu)

4. Discussion of: The Evolution of Wealth Inequality Over Half a Century: the Role of Taxes, Transfers and Technology by Kaymak, Poschke.  Journal of Monetary Economics Volume 77, 26 – 29, February (2016) 

Working Papers

1. How It’s Made: A General Theory of the Labor Implications of Technological Change (joint with Christophe Combemale, Katie Whitefoot and Erica Fuchs) Under Review

2. AIdiocracy (joint with Christophe Combemale and Ramayya Krishnan) Coming soon!

Older Work

1. Accounting for Private Information (joint with Pricila Maziero)

2. Adverse Selection and Non-exclusive Contracts (joint with Pricila Maziero)

3. Is There “Too Much” Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups? (joint with Roozbeh Hosseini, Larry E. Jones)