Jesse Perla

Associate Professor of Economics

University of British Columbia

Biography

Interests

Growth/Macro-Development
Macro-Finance
Macro-IO
Machine Learning

Education

PhD in Economics, 2013
NYU
BSc in Applied Mathematics, 1997
Columbia

Research Agenda

Broad topics and projects associated with my research and teaching

Information Diffusion and Heterogeneity

Understanding the role of diffusion of knowledge, information, and ideas for the growth of firms and economies

Machine Learning and High Dimensional Economics

Tools and applications from computer science/statistics/math for modeling heterogeneity, information diffusion, and high-dimensional learning

Role of Heterogeneity in Financial Frictions

New approaches to understanding real distortions in financial economics

Datascience and Computational Economics

Lecture notes and software