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I am an applied macroeconomist with interest in economic growth, financial development, and income inequality. Some of my past research focused on understanding cross-country productivity differences, evaluating the potential benefits of stock market bubbles, and investigating the link between financial development and wage inequality. My current research deals with non-factor-neutral technology differences across countries, skill and capital bias of technological change and consumption spending under credit constraints.

For a non-technical description of one of my recent papers see http://www.voxeu.org/article/democracy-diversification-and-growth-reversals.

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Financial Development, Income Inequality

Research Publications

• "Medium Term Growth" (with David Cuberes), in Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, ed. O. LaGrandville, 2011.
• "Financial Development and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence" (with Malhar Nabar), ECONOMIC INQUIRY, 2011.
• "Democracy, Diversification, and Growth Reversals", (with David Cuberes), May 2009, ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol 119, Issue 540, p. 1270-1302.
• "The Welfare Consequences of Irrational Exuberance: Stock Market Booms, Research Investment, and Productivity" (with Malhar Nabar), JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS, 2008, vol. 30, issue 1, p. 111-133.