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)
Last update: May 2022.