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This is my personal/professional website. I am a Research Fellow with the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. My primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, macro-finance, monetary policy, and Bayesian time-series econometrics. At Cato, I am applying my research interests and skills to advocate for libertarian values with respect to U.S. monetary policy and financial systems. For more info on my work at Cato, please click here. For updates on my work, follow me on Twitter!
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine in 2023.
Keep scrolling to find out what I've been working on recently or use the links at the top to get my CV or access more info on my research, teaching, and contact information.
This is my personal/professional website. I am a Research Fellow with the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. My primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, macro-finance, monetary policy, and Bayesian time-series econometrics. At Cato, I am applying my research interests and skills to advocate for libertarian values with respect to U.S. monetary policy and financial systems. For more info on my work at Cato, please click here. For updates on my work, follow me on Twitter!
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine in 2023.
Keep scrolling to find out what I've been working on recently or use the links at the top to get my CV or access more info on my research, teaching, and contact information.
Updates:
- Aug 2023: I wrote an article that shows fiscal spending contributing to post-Covid inflation. A brief description of the model, method, data, and posterior can be found here.
- Aug 2023: I wrote an article that shows the U.S. economy has been indeterminate since the financial crisis. A brief description of the model, method, data, and posterior means can be found here.
- July 2023: My paper "Effects of Investor Confidence Shocks on Business Cycles" received a revise and resubmit at Macroeconomic Dynamics.
- June 2023: The Washington Examiner republished my article highlighting the departure of the Fed from rules-based governance.
- June 2023: I wrote a Cato working paper highlighting the significant departures of Fed policy from the Taylor rule since the financial crisis. This blog post provides a non-technical summary of the paper.
- May 2023: I wrote a working paper at Cato showing that the US public and government officials overstate the effect of monetary policy on inflation. Read this blog post for a non-technical summary of the paper.
- May 2023: Officially received my Ph.D. in Economics from UC Irvine! Many thanks to my advisors as well as my friends and family for their support over the past 5 years.
- Apr 2023: Started working at the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
- Nov 2022: Presented my job market paper at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. I was nominated by the Economics department at UC Irvine to present at this conference.
- Oct 2022: Passed my prospectus exam in pursuit of my Ph.D.
- Oct 2022: Presented my job market paper virtually at the 1st PhD Workshop on Expectations in Macroeconomics hosted by the Barcelona School of Economics.
- July 2022: Taught my first class as a full-time instructor. The course was titled “Global Economy” and is designed to serve as an introduction to the aggregate economy. Find the syllabus here.
- June 2022: Received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Dept. of Economics at UC Irvine.
- May 2022: Presented my paper "Investor Heuristics and Biases: Quantitative Effects on the U.S. Business Cycle" at the 56th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association held virtually on May 31.
- May 2022: Attended the Behavioral Macroeconomics Research Boot Camp hosted by the NBER at Berkeley, CA on May 9-10.
- Mar 2022: Presented my paper "Investor Heuristics and Biases: Quantitative Effects on the U.S. Business Cycle" at the 29th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics held virtually on March 10-11.