Published Works


  1. "Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises," joint with Mark Aguiar, Satyajit Chatterjee, and Harold Cole. Handbook of Macroeconomics, Volume II​ . December, 2016. (available here)
  2. "Essays in Macroeconomic and International Finance," Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from ProQuest, May 2015
  3. “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. "Belief Shocks and Long-Maturity Sovereign Debt" (revision resubmitted, Journal of International Economics)
  2. "Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises Revisited: The Art of the Desperate Deal," joint with Mark Aguiar, Satyajit Chatterjee, and Harold Cole (revision requested, Journal of Political Economy)
  3. "Costly Information and Heteroskedasticity in Sovereign Risk Spreads" joint with Grace Weishi Gu (under review)
  4. "Long-Term Sovereign Debt Issuance Under Limited Commitment" (revision requested, Review of Economic Dynamics​)
    1. Online Appendix

Works in Progress


  1. "Geometric Rational Inattention," with Roc Armenter and Michèle Müller-Itten 
  2. "Signaling in Sovereign Debt Markets" with Mark Wright
  3. "Sovereign Default as a Long-Run Risk" with Jing Zhang
  4. "Equilibrium Repression," with César Sosa-Padilla and Yuanhao Niu