He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2013, M.S. degree in Applied Math and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an M.A. degree in Economics from New Economic School. His research interests lie in the areas of International Finance and Macroeconomics with a particular focus on monetary, fiscal, and macroprudential policies interactions. His most recent publications are “Growth-Rate and Uncertainty Shocks in Consumption: Cross-Country Evidence” (joint with Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson) and “Government Spending Multipliers under Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan” (joint with Wataru Miyamoto and Thuy Lan Nguyen) appeared in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.