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Current Position

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (August 2020 -)
Assistant Professor of Economics

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (August 2014 - May 2020)
Ph.D. in Economics
Dissertation: Policy Implications of Asset Price Bubbles

Davidson College (August 2008 - May 2012)
Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Papers

PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED PAPERS

Bubbles, Wage Rigidity, and Persistent Slumps  with Toan Phan
Economics Letters, 151(2), 2017, pp. 66 - 70

Bubbly Recessions  with Siddhartha Biswas and Toan Phan
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 12(4), 2020, pp. 37-70
 [slides] [pdf] [FRB-R Economic Brief]

Unconventional Monetary Policy Spillovers and the (In)convenience of Treasuries with Karlye Dilts-Stedman Journal of Monetary Economics, 161, 2026 [FRB-KC Working Paper]

WORKING PAPERS

Parsing Speculative Value in Asset Prices [slides] (revision requested at Quantitative Economics)

The Optimal Taxation of Network Goods with Enda Hargaden and Matthew Harris (submitted)

Identifying OPEC News Shocks: The Impact of OPEC Announcements Using Textual Data with Gabriel Abeyie (revision requested at Journal of Applied Econometrics)

Asset Bubbles and Endogenous Uncertainty with Gabriel Abeyie (submitted)
[Supplemental Material]

Where Estimators are Exposed (submitted)
[Supplemental Material]

High Frequency Temperature Shocks (submitted)
[Supplemental Material] [Estimated Shocks Database]

WORKS IN PROGRESS

The Sources and Effects of Foreign Demand for US Treasuries with Paul Ho, Thomas Lubik, and Christian Matthes

Welfare Implications of Bubbly Cycles with Gabriel Abeyie

HAVOK Under Uncertainty with Karlye Dilts-Stedman

Optimal Taxation of Network Goods: A Ramsey-Mirrlees Approach with Enda Hargaden and Matthew Harris

Monetary Policy and Bubbles: A HANK Approach