Published Works

  1. "Beliefs and Long-Maturity Sovereign Debt." Journal of International Economics ​(forthcoming)
  2. "Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises," joint with Mark Aguiar, Satyajit Chatterjee, and Harold Cole. Handbook of Macroeconomics, Volume II​ . December, 2016. (available here)
  3. "Essays in Macroeconomic and International Finance," Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from ProQuest, May 2015
  4. “For What We Do and Fail to Do,” The American Journal of Bioethics 8(7), Sept. 2008, 29-31, with Christopher Dodsworth and Tihamer Toth-Fejel.

Working Papers


  1. "Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises Revisited: The Art of the Desperate Deal," joint with Mark Aguiar, Satyajit Chatterjee, and Harold Cole (revision resubmitted, Journal of Political Economy)
  2. "Costly Information and Heteroskedasticity in Sovereign Risk Spreads" joint with Grace Weishi Gu (revision requested, International Economic Review)
  3. "Long-Term Sovereign Debt: A Steady State Analysis" (revision resubmittted, Review of Economic Dynamics​)
  4. "Rational Inattention via Ignorance Equivalence," with Roc Armenter and Michèle Müller-Itten (submitted)

Works in Progress


  1. "Signaling in Sovereign Debt Markets" with Mark Wright
  2. "Sovereign Default as a Long-Run Risk" with Jing Zhang and Astghik Mkhitaryan
  3. "Equilibrium Repression," with César Sosa-Padilla