I am an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. My research sits at the intersection of macroeconomics and development, asking why productivity and capital are often misallocated across firms and sectors, and what that means for growth, financial development, and structural transformation in developing economies.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics in 2026 from Washington University in St. Louis.
Working Papers
01Complementarity and the Amplification of Financial Frictions
Does improving the access to financing lead to more productive firms? We study the implications of complementarity on productivity under financial frictions. We develop a model of heterogeneous producers facing collateral constraints and a technology adoption decision. Producers’ choices are connected through the final good market, creating complementarity in adoption. We find that more complementarity between producers amplifies the effects of financial frictions through more sensitive adoption. In a high-complementarity economy, adopters increase up to 219% relative to the self-financing economy. Misallocation is the main driver of TFP loss only when complementarity is low. Our results imply that economies with high complementarity benefit more from financial liberalizations, incentivizing the adoption of more productive technologies.
Work in Progress
02Persistence of Misallocation: The Long-Run Effects of Setup Costs
The Natural Rate of Structural Transformation