I'm an economist and I study topics in macroeconomics and economic growth. Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan and Initiative on Digital Economy’s FutureTech Lab. In 2027, I will join King’s College London as an Assistant Professor of Economics. I graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in Spring 2026.
My current research agenda studies small and young firms — and how their outcomes are shaped by the state, technology and non-traditional forms of financing.
Working Papers
- Startups and the State
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Welfare Costs and Benefits of Deficit-Financed Fiscal Policy
with Calvin He. [SSRN] -
Credit Card Entrepreneurs
with Ufuk Akcigit, Seyit Cilasun, Javier Miranda and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde.
Under revision for the Review of Economic Studies.
Non-technical summaries: [BFI] [NBER Digest]
Works in Progress
- Lagging or Leading: AI Adoption by Entrepreneurs
with Akcigit, Cilasun, Miranda and Serrano-Velarde
Small Business Activity Index
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: A New Employment Series for the US, UK and Canada
with Akcigit, Cilasun, Miranda, Ocakverdi and Serrano-Velarde.
[Dashboard] · Presentations: NBER Summer Institute 2023 · Media: Forbes, Forbes, CNN, Richmond Fed
Writing
Some of my other writings are here.