Ricardo Marto

PhD student

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics

Welcome!

I am a PhD student in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. My research interests include macroeconomics, industrial organization, and labor economics.

I previously worked in the IMF’s Research Department on topics ranging from debt sustainability, fiscal and monetary policies to climate change and inequality. I hold a Master’s degree in Economics from the University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics.

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Education

PhD in Economics (ongoing)

University of Pennsylvania
MSc in Economics (with Distinction)

University College London (UCL)
BSc in Economics

Nova School of Business and Economics

Interests

Macroeconomics
Industrial Organization
Climate Economics and Natural Disasters
Education and Skills
Family Economics

Publications

More Publications

Investing in Public Infrastructure: Roads or Schools?

M. Atolia, B. Li, R. Marto, G. Melina.
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 25(7), pp. 1892-1921, 2021.

Keywords: debt intolerance, debt sustainability, developing countries, human capital, political myopia, public investment

Paper Slides VoxEU

Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States

R. Marto, C. Papageorgiou, V. Klyuev.
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 135, pp. 574-586, 2018.

Keywords: adaptation, debt sustainability, natural disasters, resilience, small states

Paper

The long-run decoupling of emissions and output: Evidence from the largest emitters

G. Cohen, J. Jalles, P. Loungani, R. Marto.
Energy Policy, Vol. 118, pp. 58-68, 2018.

Keywords: emissions, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental Okun’s Law

Paper

Work in Progress

More Publications

The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists

J. Greenwood, N. Guner, R. Marto.
2021.

Keywords: average weekly hours, blue-collar jobs, calibration, college premium, education, family economics, fertility, housework, Kuznets, leisure, market work, marriage, neutral technological progress, price of labor-saving household durables, skilled-biased technological change, white-collar jobs

Paper Data: Ask Kuznets! Model: Run your experiments!

College Admissions and the (Mis)allocation of Talent

R. Marto, Y. Wittman.
2021.

Keywords: admissions, applications, college market, credit constraints, education policy, sorting, tuition discrimination

Paper

Numerical Methods for Macroeconomists (with Julia and Matlab codes) J. Greenwood, R. Marto.
2021.

Keywords: calibration, difference equations, dynamic programming, interpolating functions, Markov chains, maximization problems, Monte Carlo simulation, nonlinear equations

Book

Working Papers

More Publications

Emissions and Growth: Trends and Cycles in a Globalized World

G. Cohen, J. Jalles, P. Loungani, R. Marto.
IMF Working Paper No. 17 / 191, 2017.

Keywords: emissions, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental Okun’s Law

Paper Slides

Collect More, Spend Better: Public Investment in Asian Frontier Markets M. Ghazanchyan, R. Marto, J. Jonas, K. Douglass.
IMF Working Paper No. 17 / 10, 2017.

Keywords: Cambodia, debt sustainability, fiscal policy, growth, public investment, revenue collection, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

Paper

Policy Work

More Publications

World Economic Outlook

International Monetary Fund

October 2017: Seeking Sustainable Growth

Article IV Staff Reports and Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

Vanuatu, 2018 Solomon Islands, 2017 Solomon Islands (Selected Issues), 2017 Vanuatu, 2016 Ecuador (Selected Issues), 2015

Small States' Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change

International Monetary Fund

Paper

Contact

rmarto AT sas DOT upenn DOT edu
Email for appointment
The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics (PCPSE),
Office 546,
133 South 36th Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104