I am an associate professor of economics at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
My research interests focus on modeling the macroeconomy, in particular the responses of the economy to different policy actions, and on the speed and duration of economic recoveries. The second stream of my research is methodological and focuses on identifying the trend and cyclical movements that define the state of the economy.
Keywords/Expertise for Media: recessions and recoveries (prediction, recession risk, speed of recovery, policy and policy responses), macroeconomic policy, macroeconomic conditions (GDP, inflation, unemployment, employment)
What's New
- August 12th, 2025: A new version of our working paper "Mexico's Labor Market through the Lens of the Beveridge Curve" is available
- September 17th, 2025: I gave a seminar talk at Texas Christian University
- October 3rd-4th, 2025: I attended the Midwest Econometrics Group Conference
- November 15th, 2025: I am co-organizing the North Texas Economics Conference, to be held at the University of Texas at Arlington
- January 22nd, 2026: A new version of our working paper "From Beliefs to Prices: Analyzing How Inflation Expectations Affect the Inflation Distribution" is available
- February 13th, 2026: I will give a seminar talk at SUNY Binghamton
- Spring 2026: I will visit the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, Croatia
- March 2026: I plan to attend and present at the Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics in Lisbon, Portugal
- July 2026: I am organizing multiple sessions and plan to attend and present at the Society for Economic Measurement Conference in St. Louis, MO
Biography
My research statement can be found here.
I received my PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. I received my MA in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, and my BA in economics and BS in mathematics from Ohio University in 2007. I have also held visiting scholar positions at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and the EFZG in Zagreb, Croatia.
I am one of the cofounders of the North Texas Economics Group.
I served as the treasurer (2019-2024) and as an elected member (2017-2024) of the executive committee of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
In the fall semester, I teach Econ 4386 (Contemporary Economic Policy, Advanced Undergraduate) and Econ 6302 (Macroeconomics 1, PhD). In the spring semester, I teach Econ 4385 (Forecasting for Business and Economics).
My teaching philosophy statement can be found here.
A summary of my teaching evaluations can be found here.
I have previously taught Time Series Analysis (at the undergraduate and graduate level), Business, Government, and Macroeconomic Policy (advanced macroeconomics, undergraduate/ MS graduate, writing-intensive), Money and Banking (undergraduate core business class), and the Federal Reserve Challenge (undergraduate experiential learning class on monetary policy).