Assistant Professor of Finance: Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow

Berkeley Haas

maxted at haas.berkeley.edu


Working Papers

Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data (with Sean Chanwook Lee)

  • This paper was formerly titled “Household Borrowing and MPCs in Heterogeneous-Agent Models”

The Beta-Delta-DELTA Sweet Spot (with David Laibson)

A Simple Mapping from MPCs to MPXs (with Benjamin Moll and David Laibson)

Present Bias Unconstrained: Consumption, Welfare, and the Present-Bias Dilemma

  • Conditionally Accepted, Quarterly Journal of Economics

  • An early draft, which builds to the main results in a more graphical way, can be found here

Publications

Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy (with David Laibson and Benjamin Moll)

  • Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming [DOI]

Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle (with David Laibson, Sean Chanwook Lee, Andrea Repetto, and Jeremy Tobacman)

  • Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming [DOI]

A Macro-Finance Model with Sentiment

  • Review of Economic Studies, 2024 [DOI]

Present Bias Causes and Then Dissipates Auto-Enrollment Savings Effects (with John Beshears, James Choi, and David Laibson)

  • AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022