Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of American University in Washington DC. I am also the Co-Director of the Institute for Macroeconomic and Policy Analysis (IMPA). Before, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia Business School. I hold a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). My current research focuses on macroeconomics, public finance, labor, and political economy.
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We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the House-passed version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), including estimates of its dynamic macroeconomic and distributional effects. The document includes an Addendum analyzing the Senate-passed (and final) version. You can read the full report here.
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Check out my working paper (May 2025) with Hector Sala and Pedro Trivín on consumption responses to a major minimum wage increase, using transaction-level data from Spain. The paper was recently featured in La Vanguardia. Read the coverage here (in Spanish)
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Our analysis on the long-term effects of cutting federal R&D funding was featured in the New York Times (April 30, 2025). NPR, Forbes and Bloomberg also covered the story. See our full analysis here.
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Read the summary of IMPA’s Third Annual Colloquium, held on April 23, 2025, at American University, featuring Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia), Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) and Vanessa Williamson (Brookings), in a conversation on the future of U.S. economic policy—and the democratic and institutional values that underpin it.
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See the latest version of my working paper with Juan A. Montecino and Joseph E. Stiglitz on Equity Prices, Market Power, and Corporate Tax Policy (March 2025)
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In my recent op-ed with Juan A. Montecino and Joseph E. Stiglitz, published in Bloomberg, we discuss the critical role of corporate taxes and argue why raising the rate is the right move for the US. Read it here (August 2024).