Brent

October 29, 2020 | Our paper “The Rise of Niche Consumption” documents divergent trends in the concentration of household and aggregate spending and develops a novel and analytically tractable model of heterogeneous households to explain and interpret these trends. Check it out here.

October 15, 2020 | I’m hiring! If interested in working with me and outstanding colleagues next year on international macro, finance, and trade, please click here to learn more about and apply to the full-time position. Would be a great fit for someone interested in getting 2 years of research experience before attending a PhD in Economics or Finance.

August 24, 2020 | I am co-organizing with Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger the Stanford Big-Data Initiative in International Macro-Finance, which is a series of lectures (online this year, and recorded) given by the three of us plus Susan Athey, Nicholas Bloom, Alberto Cavallo, Wenxin Du, Tarek Hassan, Chad Jones, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Pete Klenow, Adrien Verdelhan, and Chenzi Xu.