Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization with Imperfect Expectations
- Imperfect Expectations
- Fiscal Policy
- Labor
- HANK
About
About me
I am a macroeconomist studying economic fluctuations and policy, with a focus on how expectations, labor markets, and household heterogeneity shape the transmission of shocks. My research spans fiscal and monetary economics and also examines how technological and demographic change reshape the economy and the design of public policy.
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. During the 2025–26 academic year, I was a Junior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 2023.
Updates
News
New papers and revisions.
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We posted the first complete version of Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization with Imperfect Expectations.
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We posted a new paper: The Macroeconomic Effect of Stimulus Checks: Evidence from Postwar Veterans' Payments.
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We posted a revised version of Ricardian Non-Equivalence.
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We posted preliminary versions of Monetary Policy without Redistributive Concerns and An Approximate General Theory of Second Best.
We posted a revised version of Regulating Artificial Intelligence.
Research
Papers
My work studies macroeconomics with an emphasis on policy, expectations, labor markets, and heterogeneity.
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Working Papers
The Macroeconomic Effect of Stimulus Checks: Evidence from Postwar Veterans' Payments
- Imperfect Expectations
- Fiscal Policy
- HANK
Ricardian Non-Equivalence
- Imperfect Expectations
- Fiscal Policy
- HANK
Monetary Policy without Redistributive Concerns
- Monetary & Inflation
- Labor
- HANK
An Approximate General Theory of Second Best
- Fiscal Policy
- Labor
Regulating Artificial Intelligence
- Technology & Demographics
- AI
Foreign Residents and the Future of Global Cities
- Technology & Demographics
- Labor
Belief Disagreement and Business Cycles
- Imperfect Expectations
- Fiscal Policy
- HANK
Publications
Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs
Awarded the SCOR–PSE Junior Research Prize
- Monetary & Inflation
- Labor
Fiscal Stimulus with Imperfect Expectations: Spending vs. Tax Policy
- Imperfect Expectations
- Fiscal Policy
Should Robots Be Taxed?
- Fiscal Policy
- Technology & Demographics
- Labor
What Is the Optimal Immigration Policy? Migration, Jobs and Welfare
- Fiscal Policy
- Technology & Demographics
- Labor
Non-Refereed Work
From RANK to HANK, without FIRE
- Imperfect Expectations
- Monetary & Inflation
- Labor
- HANK
Work in Progress
The Labor Mobility Slowdown: Origins and Macro Implications
- Technology & Demographics
- Labor
Teaching
Courses at UCLA
Graduate and undergraduate macroeconomics.
Fall 2023 & Spring 2025
ECON 221: Monetary Economics I
This graduate course introduces frontier research in monetary economics. It begins with the standard New Keynesian model, then studies imperfect expectations, household heterogeneity, and the interaction between the two.
Undergraduate
ECON 102: Macroeconomic Theory
This intermediate course develops the tools to study growth, consumption, investment, employment, inflation, recessions, and the roles of monetary and fiscal policy.