Academic Position

Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA -

Visiting

Becker Friedman Institute, Visiting Scholar (1 week) April 2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Scholar Fall 2013

Education

Toulouse School of Economics, Post-doc, Job Market Candidate -2014

Harvard University, Visiting Ph.D. Student -2013

Sciences Po, Ph.D. in Economics. Committee: Philippe Martin (advisor), Emmanuel Farhi, Jean Tirole (referees), Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Weil -2013

Paris School of Economics, M.Sc. in Economics

Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Engineer

Ecole Polytechnique, Engineer

Honors and Awards

AQR Top Finance Graduate Award, Copenhaguen Business School

RIEF/CEPREMAP Prize, \(1^{st}\) price for Best Article (with Thomas Grjebine)

L.E. Rivot Prize, French Academy of Sciences Award

Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Finance, Housing

Invited Seminars (including scheduled)

2021: Banf of Israel, Bank of France, Minneapolis Fed (s). 2020: Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, IMF. 2019: PSE, Harvard Econ, UCSD, Michigan, Chicago Fed, EIEF, UC Riverside. 2018: HEC. 2017: NYU Stern, USC Lusk, Stanford GSB, Zurich, Chicago Econ. 2016: Yale, Stanford, UC Riverside, Chicago Fed, Polytechnique, PSE. 2015: Wharton Econ, Wisconsin-Madison, USC, INSEAD, CIRED. 2014: UCSD, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, MIT, UPenn, HEC Finance, Fed Board, Harvard Econ, UCLA, NYU Econ, CREI.

Conference Presentations (Selected)

2021: SED Annual Meeting 2021 (Barcelona), 2019: Annual Conference Chaire Banque de France at PSE (Paris), 4th Annual California Macroeconomics Conference (Claremont). 2018: SED Annual Meeting 2018 (Mexico City), 9th Summer Macro-Finance Workshop (Paris). 2017: SED Annual Meeting 2017 (Edinburgh), Conference on Housing, Urban Development, and the Macroeconomy, INET (USC). 2016: NBER EF&G Meeting (Chicago), SED Annual Meeting 2016 (Toulouse), Bank of France Conference on Granularity (Paris), 5th HKUST International Workshop on Macroeconomics (Hong Kong). 2015: Chicago Initiative in Theory and Empirics (CITE) conference (Chicago), Minnesota Macro Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory (Minneapolis), SED Annual Meeting 2015 (Warsaw), 4th Junior Conference on Macroeconomics, Instituto Einaudi (Rome), 3rd GSE Summer Forum “Firms in the Global Economy” (Barcelona), INET-IMF Conference on Macroeconomic Externalities (Washington). 2014: SED Annual Meeting 2014 (Toronto), 2nd GSE Summer Forum (Barcelona), Cowles 10th Annual Conference on GE and its Applications (Yale), FRIC Top Finance Graduate Award Conference (Copenhaguen). 2013: Sveriges Riksbank Conference on “Bubbles” (Stockholm).

Conference Discussions (Selected)

CEPII Workshop: Interplay between finance and macroeconomics in a global integration context (Paris), IMF/ EUI Conference on Secular Stagnation and Growth (Florence), NBER Conference on Multiple Equilibria (San Francisco Fed), Nemmers Prize Conference in honor of Jean Tirole (Northwestern), EABCN-INET Conference on Macro Stabilization (Cambridge).

Grants

UCLA Faculty Senate Grant -2016

UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate Research Grant , 2016, 2018

Previous (Non-Academic) Experience

Agence Française de Développement, Research Assistant

Electricité de France, Intern -2009

Cour des Comptes, Intern

Referee

American Economic Journal: Macro, American Economic Journal: Micro, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Theoretical Economics.

Professional Affiliations

Macro Finance Society

CEPR Research Fellow

Organization

SED Program Committee Member , 2017, 2018

UCLA Conference on Housing and Macroeconomics, Co-organizer

West Coast Search and Matching Meeting, Co-organizer

Advising

Colin Weiss (First Placement: Federal Reserve Board)

Flavien Moreau (First Placement: International Monetary Fund)

References

Prof. Emmanuel Farhi

Prof. Christian Hellwig

Prof. Philippe Martin

Prof. Jean Tirole