Gabriel Mihalache
International Economics

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.

• Working Papers
• Publications
• Resources
• Teaching
• Door Decoration

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.

Working Papers

Manuscripts with Decision

• "Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth," Apr 2022
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  with Marina Azzimonti and Laura Karpuska, revise & resubmit International Economic Review

  Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements

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  @unpublished{AZZIMONTI2020wp,
  author = "Marina Azzimonti and Laura Karpuska and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth",
  note = "NBER Working Paper No. 30044",
  month = "5",
  year = "2022",
  doi = "10.3386/w30044", }

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• "COVID-19 Vaccination and Financial Frictions," Dec 2021
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  with Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai, revise & resubmit IMF Economic Review

  COVID-19 Vaccination and Financial Frictions in Emerging Markets

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  @unpublished{ARELLANO2021wp,
  author = "Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "COVID-19 Vaccination and Financial Frictions",
  month = "12",
  year = "2021", }

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• "Deadly Debt Crises: COVID-19 in Emerging Markets," Apr 2021
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  with Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai, revise & resubmit Review of Economic Studies
  

  Deadly Debt Crises: COVID-19 in Emerging Markets

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  @unpublished{ARELLANO2020bwp,
  author = "Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "Deadly Debt Crises: COVID-19 in Emerging Markets",
  note = "NBER Working Paper No. 27275",
  month = "5",
  year = "2020", }

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• "Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies (NK-Default)," Jan 2020
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  with Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai, reject & resubmit American Economic Review
  

  Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies

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  @unpublished{ARELLANO2020wp,
  author = "Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "Monetary Policy and Sovereign Risk in Emerging Economies (NK-Default)",
  note = "NBER Working Paper No. 26671",
  month = "1",
  year = "2020", }

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In Progress…

• "Predictable Interest Rate Movements, Implications for Emerging Markets," Mar 2022
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  with Lei Li, initial draft

  Predictable Interest Rate Movements, Implications for Emerging Markets

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  @unpublished{LI2022wp,
  author = "Lei Li and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "Predictable Interest Rate Movements, Implications for Emerging Markets",
  month = "3",
  year = "2022", }

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• "Non Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement," Feb 2021
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  with Alexis Anagnostopoulos and Eva Cárceles-Poveda, initial draft

  Non Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement

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  @unpublished{ACM2021wp,
  author = "Alexis Anagnostopoulos and Eva Cárceles-Poveda and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "Non Linear Dividend Taxation and Shareholder Disagreement",
  note = "Working Paper",
  month = "2",
  year = "2021", }

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• "The Maturity and Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt," Jun 2016
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  with Yan Bai and Seon Tae Kim, in limbo

  The Maturity and Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt

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  @unpublished{BAI2016wp,
  author = "Yan Bai and Seon Tae Kim and Gabriel Mihalache", 
  title = "The Maturity and Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt",
  note = "NBER Working Paper No. 20896",
  month = "6",
  year = "2016", }

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Publications

• "Sovereign Default Resolution Through Maturity Extension,"
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  Journal of International Economics, Volume 125C, 2020, ISSN 0022-1996

  Sovereign Default Resolution Through Maturity Extension (JIE, 2020)

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  @article{MIHALACHE2020103326,
  title = "Sovereign default resolution through maturity extension",
  journal = "Journal of International Economics",
  volume = "125C",
  pages = "103326",
  year = "2020",
  issn = "0022-1996",
  doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103326",
  url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199620300453",
  author = "Gabriel Mihalache", }

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• "Default Risk, Sectoral Reallocation, and Persistent Recessions,"
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  with Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai
  Journal of International Economics, Volume 112, 2018, ISSN 0022-1996

  Default Risk, Sectoral Reallocation, and Persistent Recessions (JIE, 2018)

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  @article{ARELLANO2018182,
  title = "Default risk, sectoral reallocation, and persistent recessions",
  journal = "Journal of International Economics",
  volume = "112",
  pages = "182 - 199",
  year = "2018",
  issn = "0022-1996",
  doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.01.004",
  url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022199618300047",
  author = "Cristina Arellano and Yan Bai and Gabriel Mihalache", }

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• "The Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt,"
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  with Yan Bai and Seon Tae Kim
  Economics Letters, Volume 161, 2017, ISSN 0165-1765

  The Payment Schedule of Sovereign Debt (EL, 2017)

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  @article{BAI201719,
  title = "The payment schedule of sovereign debt",
  journal = "Economics Letters",
  volume = "161",
  pages = "19 - 23",
  year = "2017",
  issn = "0165-1765",
  doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.09.003",
  url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176517303701",
  author = "Yan Bai and Seon Tae Kim and Gabriel Mihalache", }

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Resources

• Computation: Compilers, IDEs, languages, libraries for numerical methods
• Sovereign default reading list: key papers on quantitative models of (equilibrium) sovereign default
• A Fortran+MATLAB Workflow, for moving data or results back and forth

Teaching

All materials, including syllabi and recordings, are distributed via Blackboard. Class-specific office hours are listed in the syllabus. For other appointments, please email. Students, please use gabriel.mihalache@stonybrook.edu and include the class name in the subject. Thank you!

Fall 2022

• ECON 8862 International Economics 2

Previously (Stony Brook University)

• ECO 305 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
• ECO 325 International Economics (pre-2020)
• ECO 325 International Trade
• ECO 386 International Finance
• ECO 531 Introduction to Computational Methods in Economics (MA)
• ECO 610 Advanced Macroeconomic Theory (PhD)
• ECO 613 Computational Macroeconomics (PhD)

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Door Decorations

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:

• "Japan's Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan" – G.W. Smith, 2006
• "The End of Four Big Inflations" – T.J. Sargent, 1981
• "University of California at Berkley graduation speech" – T.J. Sargent, 2007
• "Brazil: Inflation and stabilization plans" – Ayres et al., 2019