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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University's School of Management, with a secondary appointment at the Yale Department of Economics.

 

I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Monetary Economics, and a Co-Editor at the Latin American Journal of Central Banking. 

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. My research focuses on applied macroeconomics,  macro development, innovation, and monetary economics.

 

Email: david.argente@yale.edu

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Working Papers

Published and Accepted Papers

Consumer Surplus of Alternative Payment Methods 

with Fernando Alvarez

Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming

How do Firms Build Market Share? The Role of Demand Frictions  

with Doireann FitzgeraldSara MoreiraAnthony Priolo

American Economic Review: Insights, forthcoming

The Life Cycle of Products: Evidence and Implications 

with Munseob Lee and Sara Moreira

Journal of Political Economy, 2024

Are Cryptocurrencies Currencies? Bitcoin as Legal Tender in El Salvador

with Fernando Alvarez and Diana Van Patten

Science, 2023

Product Life Cycle, Learning, and Nominal Shocks 

with Chen Yeh

Review of Economic Studies, 2022

On the Effects of the Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber 

with Fernando Alvarez

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022

 

Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US 

with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022

 

The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases 

with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022

Cash: A Blessing or a Curse? 

with Fernando AlvarezFrancesco Lippi, and Rafael Jiménez

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022

 

A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown, Testing and Tracing 

with Fernando Alvarez and Francesco Lippi

American Economic Review: Insights, 2021

Cost of Living Inequality during the Great Recession 

with Munseob Lee

Journal of European Economic Association, 2021

Cash-Management in Times of COVID-19 

with Fernando Alvarez

B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2021

 

Innovation and Product Reallocation in the Great Recession 

with Munseob Lee and Sara Moreira

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2018

Work in Progress

Breaking Uniform Pricing

with Marcos Lissauer

Price Setting During a Currency Changeover

with Fernando Alvarez, Alberto Cavallo, and Francesco Lippi

Bias in the PCE Price Index

with Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee

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