Welcome!

I am currently a Staff economist with the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF, following a stint at the Fund's Fiscal Affairs Department. 

My primary research interests are in public finance, where I study policy issues in tax compliance and tax evasion with administrative data. I am also interested in the political economy of public goods and public budget dynamics. 

I received my Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government (Economics track) from the Economics Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in May 2021. I was then a 2021/2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Long-Term Fiscal Policy at the NBER, supported by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

Updates: My first IMF working paper on "Fiscal Discourse and Fiscal Policy", joint with Yongquan Cao and Era Dabla-Norris, is out! We argue that political parties are increasingly competing over pro-government spending ideas, adding to the already large long-term fiscal pressures in advanced and emerging economies. We summarize the issue in a dedicated blog post. Our work has most recently been featured in The Economist's cover story on public debt risks in October 2025.

Snippets of this project had appeared in the April 2024 IMF Fiscal Monitor on "Fiscal Policy in the Great Election Year". There, my FAD colleagues and I reignited the discussion on the role of politics behind current and upcoming risks to the fiscal trajectory in electoral democracies.