Research Interests
- Macroeconomics: Macro-Finance, Monetary Policy, Firm Dynamics
 - Econometrics: Non-linear statistics and machine learning, time series analysis and macroeconometrics
 
Research Background
- University of Maryland
current position- PhD student in economics
 - Research Assistant to John Haltiwanger
 
 - Federal Reserve Board
- Research Assistant to Vice Chair Clarida
 - Research Assistant to Macro-Financial Anlaysis Section
 
 - University of Richmond
- BS in Mathematical Economics
 - Economics Research Assistant and Research Fellow
 
 
Selected Research Code
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"Combining forecasts: Can machines beat the average?"
with Francisco Vazquez-Grande, September 2020
Github | Working Paper - 
"Bottom-up leading macroeconomic indicators: An application to non-financial corporate defaults using machine learning"
with Horacio Sapriza, and Tom Zimmermann, September 2019
Github | Working Paper 
Statistical Software Packages
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OOS for out-of-sample time series forecasting
Github | Website | CRAN - 
sovereign for state-dependent empirical analysis
Github | Website | CRAN 

