Biography

Interests

  • Growth/Macro-Development
  • Macro-Finance
  • Macro-IO
  • Machine Learning and AI

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