Welcome!
I am a DPhil (PhD) student in Economics at the University of Oxford, supervised by Michael McMahon and Martin Ellison. You can find my CV here.
My research interests center around theotretical macroeconomics, with a particular focus on monetary-fiscal policy interactions and the effects of supply chain disruptions. Recently, I have also been affiliated with the World Bank, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Deutsche Bundesbank.
Working Papers
Debt Indexation and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the importance of inflation-indexation of a part of government debt. We first establish that the degree to which uncovered sovereign spending shocks are inflationary is increasing in the share of inflation-indexed debt in the overall government debt portfolio. We leverage this finding to introduce inflation-indexed debt in a model of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL), where we show that: (i) even absent further frictions, inflation-indexed debt makes the price level backward-looking (i.e., it becomes a state variable), (ii) it tightens bounds that pin down 'active fiscal policy', and (iii) in a calibrated HANK model, a one percentage point increase in the share of inflation-indexed debt in overall government debt increases the volatility of the response of inflation to government spending by up to 4% relative to a no-indexed debt baseline case in a world of fiscal dominance.
Upcoming presentations: CEPR Paris Symposium 2024 (poster session) | Scottish Economic Society 2025
Work in progress
Towards a Bullwhip Theory of Supply Chains
(joint with Michael McMahon)