About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Stanford University.

My research interests include macroeconomics, growth, innovation, and firm dynamics.

Prior to starting at Stanford, I studied in economics and mathematics at Emory University and worked as a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Research

Working papers

Sectoral Innovation Complementarities

Job market paper

Idea Rents and Firm Growth

with Timo Boppart, Pete Klenow and Huiyu Li · NBER Working Paper No. 35594

Abstract

Which firms drive aggregate productivity growth? We document that firms with high price-earnings ratios tend to see increases in their subsequent earnings relative to sales, which we interpret as rents from ideas (innovation). We construct an endogenous growth model with shocks to firm innovation step-sizes and R&D efficiency and calibrate it to match patterns in the data. The model implies that growth would be much lower, even with the same innovative effort, if firms had the same step sizes. We find that the share of growth coming from smaller listed firms substantially exceeds their sales share.

Work in progress

The Growth Implications of Heterogeneous Firm-to-Firm Knowledge Spillovers

with Emmanuella Kyei Manu

Other writing

Why Don’t Low-Income Countries Adopt More Productive Technologies?

with Nicholas Trachter · Richmond Fed Economic Brief No. 21-11 · 2021

The Effect of Lockdown Measures on Unemployment

with Marios Karabarbounis, James Lee and Nicholas Trachter · Richmond Fed Special Report · 2020

Teaching

Climate Change and Global Inequality, Stanford — Teaching Assistant,2026
International Finance, Stanford — Teaching Assistant,2025
International Trade, Stanford — Teaching Assistant,2023–24

Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award x3, Stanford Economics.