Short Bio & Research Activity

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I am the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.

I am a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where I co-direct the NBER Political Economy Program. I am also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and of CESifo.

I am currently a Co-Editor at Econometrica.

Before joining UC Berkeley, I was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia and at the University of Chicago. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

My research focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. I have worked on regulation, housing markets, banking, Lobbying, political institutions and their design, elections, political campaigns, behavior in legislatures, and campaign finance. I have also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict. I have interests in Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.

My teaching interests are in Political Economy, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, and Data Science.