My work has been published at the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the International Economic Review, among others. I developed the “Partisan Conflict Index,” that tracks political disagreement among US politicians, updated monthly by the Real-Time Data Research Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

I am part of the Advisory Board of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at UCSB and the Minnesota Economics Big Data Institute. I am also an affiliate at the Global Linkages Lab at Brown University.

Before joining the Richmond Fed, I was an Endowed Chair of Economics at Stony Brook University and Research Associate at the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth (EFG) and Political Economy (POL) programs. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2004.