About
David Baqaee is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), affiliated with the Department of Economics in the College of Letters and Science. His research focuses on aggregation and heterogeneity in macroeconomics, particularly examining how resource misallocation from market power, nominal rigidities, and increasing returns to scale impacts aggregate productivity. He has contributed to prestigious journals such as Econometrica and the American Economic Review.
- Education: Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University; B.Sc. Mathematics and Economics, University of Canterbury
His research interests span applied economic theory, industrial organization, macroeconomics, and network economics. Recent work explores trade wars, sanctions' long-term effects, energy import dependencies, and the interplay between monetary policy and supply-side dynamics. He has served as an associate editor for Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
His publications reflect a focus on policy-relevant macroeconomic questions, including the consequences of geopolitical events, trade restrictions, and pandemic impacts on global supply chains. His methodologies emphasize disaggregated models and input-output networks to capture microeconomic foundations of aggregate phenomena.
