I am a Senior Economist and Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. My research sits at the intersection of macroeconomics, political economy, and international finance. I have studied sovereign debt and default, partisan conflict, tariffs, and the rise of stablecoins.

A decade ago I created the Partisan Conflict Index, a monthly measure of the degree of disagreement between US politicians. It’s maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and used by researchers, investors, and journalists to quantify political dysfunction.

Lately, I’ve followed policy-relevant topics. In 2025, I wrote a series of studies estimating how that year’s tariff measures affected prices and employment. This year I’ve turned to Stablecoinsin in order to understand what dollar-backed digital assets mean for the future of the dollar’s global dominance.

I’m also the author of Macroeconomics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), a graduate textbook that teaches the dynamic models and computational tools used in modern macro, connecting them to the data. You can preview it here.

And I co-founded the Women in Macroeconomics Conference, which brings together leading and early-career researchers across the field each year.

My work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among others. RePEc ranks me among the top 2% of economists worldwide over the past decade.