I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Southern Methodist University. I am also a CESifo Research Network Affiliate. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, I studied at CEMFI and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

My research combines income and spending micro-data with quantitative life-cycle and spatial models to answer questions on macroeconomic policy and labor economics; with a particular focus on measuring the propagation and pass-through of income and price changes to individuals' welfare.

Contact: romadera@smu.edu
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PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED PAPERS

Skewed Idiosyncratic Income Risk over the Business Cycle: Sources and Insurance (with Chris Busch, David Domeij, and Fatih Guvenen) AEJ: Macroeconomics, April 2022
Income Contingent University Loans: Policy Design and an Application to Spain (with Antonio Cabrales, Maia Güell, and Analia Viola) - Economic Policy, July 2019

WORKING PAPERS (from most recent copy)

Does Self-Employment Pay? The Role of Unemployment and Earnings Risk (with Joaquin Garcia-Cabo) Revise and Resubmit at the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (with Treb Allen, Simon Fuchs, Sharat Ganapati, Alberto Graziano, and Judit Montoriol-Garriga) - updated, April 2021
Consumption and Tail Earnings Shocks - latest draft

WORK IN PROGRESS

Early-Career Job Instability and Life-Cycle Income Dynamics (with Antonio Cabrales and Maia Güell)
Income Dynamics of Couples: Correlated Risks and Heterogeneous Within-Household Insurance (with Chris Busch and Fane Groes)
Self-Employment Promotion as Active Labor Policy: A Quantitative Evaluation using UI Capitalizations (with Joaquin Garcia-Cabo and Zoe Xie)