Professor of Economics at the GSEM-University of Geneva since 2016, previous Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Stanford University (2006-13), a visiting Professor at UC-Berkeley (2010-11). A Wesley Mitchell's visiting Professor at Columbia University (2012-13). Research Professor of ICREA-MOVE, Barcelona School of Economics and UAB. Senior Economist at the the NY-Fed. Member of BREAD, CEPR, EUDN and IPA and former member of the NBER.
In the Spring of 2020, I co-launched the Virtual Development Economics Seminar Series (VDEV/Channel). I am a founding board member of IDEA.
My work has appeared, among other outlets, in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the AEJ: Applied, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, the Review of Economic Dynamics.
I am the winner of the Royal Economic Society best paper published in the Economic Journal 2014, and the winner of the BANAMEX Prize in economics research 2020.