I work at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

My main research interests are macroeconomics and public finance. I am also interested in household finance and machine learning.

The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Working Papers

Fiscal Progressivity of the U.S. Federal and State Governments
(with J. Heathcote, K. Storesletten, G. Violante, January 2025)
Main results, Summary, Podcast, Earlier version

Structural Transformation and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy
(with R. Datsenko, March 2024)

State Tax and Transfer Progressivity and the Household Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus
(February 2022)

Income Insurance in the Fifty Nifty: Evidence from America’s Working Poor
(with C. Simpson-Bell, September 2021)

Beliefs, Precautionary Savings and Home Ownership
(with A. Monninger, August 2020)
ECB WP, VoxEU, Media

Work in Progress

Locked Down, Saved Up?
(with M. Ampudia and J. Perez)

The Gravity of Log
(with R. Datsenko, A. Reiremo)

Machine Learning Missing European Household Wealth

Interregional Redistribution and Insurance in Heterogeneous Fiscal Federations

Research Notes

Country-Specific Effects of Euro-Area Monetary Policy: The Role of Sectoral Differences
(with R. Datsenko, 2024)
Replication codes

Software

gini.jl Computing Gini Coefficients in Julia

Taxsim.jl Connecting Julia and NBER TAXSIM (version 32) Video tutorial

taxsim32_stata.m Connect Matlab to Taxsim32 via Stata

US_UIBen.m Matlab function to impute unemployment benefits in US states

textable.m Matlab function to export matrices as tex tables

winsor_moment_preserving.do Moment Preserving Winsorizing in Stata

Warming Up to Dynare Flattens the Dynare learning curve

Discussions

Aggregate Implications of Corporate Taxation over the Business Cycle (Chen, 2025)

Contrasting the Local and National Demographic Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks (Mansfied, 2024)

How Much Tax Do the Rich Really Pay? Evidence from the UK (Advani, Hughson and Summers, 2023)

The Impact of Inequality on Property Taxation in Norway (Borge and Krehic, 2021)

Gender, Electoral Incentives, and Crisis Response: Evidence from Brazilian Mayors (Chauvin and Tricaud, 2021)

What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy in the Past 40 Years (Robinson and Tazhitdinova, 2021)

The Effect of Federal Transfers on Subnational Debt: Micro Evidence from Mexico (Dal Borgo, 2020)

This Town Ain’t Big Enough? Knowing When Decentralization Is Too Much (Jannin and Sotura, 2019)

Firm Foundation and Location Choices: The Effects of Public Goods and Services (Riedel, Simmler, Wittrock, 2018)

Revisiting Tax on Top Income (İmhrohoğlu, Kumi, Nakornthab, 2017)

Costs of Sovereign Defaults (Asonuma, Chamon, Erce, Sasahara, 2017)

Fiscal Federalism for the Euro Area? (Schelkle​, 2017)

Towards the Fiscalization of the European Union? Lessons from the Early United States (Woźniakowski, 2016)

Collective Action Clauses and Sovereign Debt Restructuring in the Euro Area (Martinelli, 2015)

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