I am an economist working on Macro Development at the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, where I covered the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saudi Arabia, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019.
My main research interests include firm dynamics, demography, and competition. My work has been covered by The Economist, BBC, NZZ, Bloomberg La Linea, and Les Echos.
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November 2025, New Working Paper: A Search-Based Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions, with Semih Üslü.
August 2025, How Costly are Cartels?, 2nd round R&R at the AEJ:Macroeconomics
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