David Rezza Baqaee

David Baqaee is an Associate Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is also a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Prior to joining UCLA, he worked as an assistant professor of economics at LSE. In his research, he studies how the interconnected, detailed production structure of the microeconomy affects the behavior of aggregate macroeconomic variables like GDP, employment, and productivity. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Canterbury, in New Zealand, in 2010 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2015. Before starting his graduate studies, he was a research analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand