Curriculum Vitae

Research:

Primary Fields: Public Finance, Macroeconomics, Political Economics

Secondary Fields: Econometrics, Game Theory

Research Interests: Quantitative Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Political Economy, Asset Pricing
  • Publications
      •  "It's who you are and what you do: explaining the IT industry wage premium", Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review (with Julie Hotchkiss, Melinda Pitts, and John C. Robertson), Q3, 2005, 37-45.
  • Works in Progress
      • "Capital Taxes with Real and Financial Frictions" (Job Market Paper) (UPDATED 2/15/2009)
      • "The Price of Pork: The Seniority Trap in the U.S. House", revise and resubmit, Journal of Public Economics
      • "Parties as a Commitment Technology: Term Limits", submitted
      • "Flip-flopping: Ideological Adjustment Costs in the U.S. Senate" 
      • "Campaign Contributions: Political Consumption or Political Investment?"
      • "Whose Interests Do Senators Shirk?" 
      • "On the Predictive Power of the Yield Curve"
      • "Taking Institutions (Somewhat) Seriously"   
Teaching
    • Principles of Macroeconomics (Honors), ECON 2105H, Fall 2008
    • Intermediate Macroeconomics, ECON 4020, Spring 2009
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