My name is Gabriel, I study topics in International Macroeconomics. My work explores the consequences of sovereign default risk for the maturity structure of public debt, sectoral reallocation, capital accumulation, and fiscal-monetary interactions. I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stony Brook University, since 2018. I received my PhD in 2016, from the University of Rochester. I am Romanian and this is how you pronounce my last name.
News. April 2022: Marina, Laura, and I completed a revision of "Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth," where we argue that the expansion of entitement spending in the US over the last 60 years can be understood through the interaction of budget rules and a process of "unequal growth," with near-stagnant incomes at the bottom.
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It is traditional for academics to decorate their office doors with snippets from articles, media, social commentary, quotes, or cartoons. These are the current content on my door, as of June 2021: