Welcome to my personal website!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM) and Goethe University Frankfurt.
My research lies in macroeconomics, with a particular focus on how long-run forces—such as demographic change and technological progress—shape the structure and dynamics of the economy.
I am especially interested in studing the role of demand-side mechanisms in explaining cross-country differences by combining structural empirical analysis with quantitative macroeconomic modeling.
[Update]: Demographic Transition and Engel’s Law across the Development Spectrum (STEG Ph.D. research grant) is R&R at Economica
The following is my Job Market Paper:
[Job Market Paper][Working paper] [slides]
Abstract: As economies develop, they increasingly rely on services intermediates in production. While recent research highlights the importance of these shifts for aggregate dynamics, the mechanisms underlying them remain understudied. This paper quantifies the role of biased, intermediates-specific technological change as a key mechanism behind the rise of services intermediates - and its implications for broader structural transformation and aggregate growth - using a two-sector model with intermediates-specific technological change and a full input-output structure. Calibrated with U.S. data, the model indicates that intermediates-specific technological change has been driving the majority of the rise in services intermediates in the services-producing sector, but not in the goods-producing sector. This heterogeneity accounts for both the stagnation of value-added productivity in services and several aggregate trends: almost half of the increase in the services' share of intermediates and employment, roughly one-fifth of the rise in final expenditure shares, and approximately a 25% reduction in aggregate real GDP growth relative to an unbiased counterfactual. These findings establish biased intermediates-specific technological change as a central driver of the evolving production structure, the aggregate productivity slowdown, and structural change.
