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replication files (ZIP, 388KB)

Understanding how Employment Responds to Productivity Shocks when Firms Hold Inventories, with Yongsung Chang and Andreas Hornstein

Distortionary Taxes and Public Investment when Government Promises are not Enforceable, with Marina Azzimonti and Jorge Soares.

The Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy Under Chapter 13, with Hulya Eraslan and Wenli Li

Housing Externalities: Evidence from Spatially Concentrated Urban Revitalization Programs, with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Ray Owens

B.Sc. University of Toronto, 1991

M.A. University of Rochester, 1994

Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1996