I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Arizona State University . I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.
My research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, energy economics, and environmental economics. My job market paper studies how the permanence of renewable support affects long-lived investment in the U.S. electricity sector. I find that permanent support produces 13% more renewable capacity than a stochastic on-and-off subsidy, reduces cumulative power-sector CO2 emissions by 3.2%, and generates a present-value welfare gain of $208 billion at the same expected fiscal cost. Other projects study the spatial externalities of diesel taxes and how firms use permits to avoid anticipated regulation.
In 2026 I was an AEA Summer Fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth . I was previously a visiting PhD student at New York University, and I hold a joint B.A. in Economics from the New Economic School and the Higher School of Economics.
Job Market Paper
The Aggregate Impact of Policy Uncertainty in the Green Energy Transition
Federal subsidies for wind and solar are a central instrument of U.S. electricity-sector decarbonization, yet their availability has repeatedly changed. I study how the permanence of renewable support affects long-lived investment in a dynamic spatial general-equilibrium model with stochastic subsidies and irreversible generation capital. Relative to a stochastic subsidy that switches on and off, permanent support produces 13% more renewable capacity and less gas capacity, reducing cumulative power-sector CO2 emissions by 3.2% (2.29 Gt). At the same expected fiscal cost, the present-value welfare gain from permanence is $208 billion. Most of the environmental gains come from reduced generation by existing coal and gas plants rather than from avoided new fossil capacity.
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