Research

Present: Dynamic Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Social Comparisons
Former:  (Computable) General Equilibrium Analysis, Environmental Economics

We Are What We Eat: Obesity, Income, and Social Comparisons, European Economic Review, 128, 2020, 103495; with N. Mathieu-Bolh.

Dynamic Status Effects, Savings, and Income Inequality, International Economic Review, 61, 2020, 351-382; with E. Dioikitopoulos and S. Turnovsky.

Public Policy, Dynamic Status Preferences, and Wealth Inequality, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 21, 2019, 923-944; with E. Dioikitopoulos and S. Turnovsky.

Positional Preferences and Efficient Capital Accumulation when Households Exhibit a Preference for Wealth, Oxford Economic Papers, 70, 2018, 114-140;  with S. Ghosh.

Embodied Learning by Investing and Speed of Convergence, Journal of Macroeconomics 40, 2014, 245-269; with Christian Groth.

Ramsey, Pigou, Heterogeneous Agents, and Non-atmospheric Consumption Externalities, Journal of Public Economic Theory 16, 2014, 491-521.

Asymmetric and Non-atmospheric Consumption Externalities, and Efficient Consumption Taxation, Journal of Public Economics 106, 2013, 42-56; with Paul Eckerstorfer.

Conspicuous Consumption and Generation Replacement in a Model with Perpetual Youth, Journal of Public Economics 94, 2010, 1093-1107.

Public Policy, Externalities, and Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics 14(S2), 2010, 145-150; with Steve Turnovsky.

Growth and Keeping up with the Joneses, Macroeconomic Dynamics 14(S2), 2010, 176-199.

Status Effects, Public Goods Provision, and the Excess Burden, Journal of Public Economics 92, 2008, 1968-1985; with Lawrence H. Goulder.

Tax Reform, Consumption Habits, Capital Accumulation, and Welfare, FinanzArchiv 60, 2004, 462-481.

Dynamic, Multi-Sector CGE Modeling and the Specification of Capital, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 15, 2004, 469-492; with Karl Farmer.

Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of Equilibrium in an OLG Economy, Economic Theory 23, 2004, 165- 174.

A Two-Sector Overlapping Generations Model with Heterogeneous Capital, Economic Theory 22, 2003, 773 -792; with Karl Farmer.

An Applied Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Environmental Tax Reforms and Pension Policy, Journal of Policy Modeling 23, 2001, 25-50.

Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics
Editorial board, Studies in Microeconomics

Harvard University, U.S.A: 2016-2017

University of Udine, Italy: September/October 2013

University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.: Spring term 2011

University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.: Summer 2006

Stanford University, U.S.A.: 2000-2001

University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.: 1999-2000