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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NEWS AND UPCOMING
- Our Income
Dynamics and the Family workshop, co-organized with Chris Busch,
Fabian Kindermann, and Hanna Wang as part of the BSE Summer Forum, will take place
June 13-14, 2024. For more information and to
check past years' program click
here. This year's program coming soon!
- I'm visiting the University
of Mannheim
from May 16 to May 31, 2024 and LMU in Munich
from June 1 to June 6, 2024.
PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED PAPERS
Does Self-Employment Pay? The Role of Unemployment and Earnings Risk
(with Joaquin Garcia-Cabo)
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Accepted
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)
Consumption Dynamics and Welfare Under Non-Gaussian Earnings Risk
(with with Fatih Guvenen and Serdar Ozkan)
Under Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona
(with Treb Allen, Simon Fuchs, Sharat Ganapati, Alberto Graziano, and Judit
Montoriol-Garriga)
- new draft coming soon!
Consumption and Tail Earnings Shocks
- latest draft
WORK IN PROGRESS
Income Dynamics of Couples: Correlated Risks and Heterogeneous
Within-Household Insurance (with Chris Busch and Fane
Groes)
The Insurance Value of Public Insurance Against Idiosyncratic Income Risk
(with Chris Busch)
Early-Career Job Instability and Life-Cycle Income Dynamics (with Antonio
Cabrales and Maia Güell)
Last update: September 2023.