I am Thomas Bourany, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Economics at Columbia University for the year 2025-2026. I will start as an Assistant Professor in Economics at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome starting in the Fall 2026. I completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago in 2025.
I specialize in macroeconomics, climate economics, and international trade. I am also interested in issues related to fiscal and monetary policies, as well as mathematical and computational methods in economics.
At Columbia, I am organizing the PhD reading group on Industrial Policy and Macro-Development with Lucía Casal, Filip Milosavljević, Eric Verhoogen, and Josh Whitford. Fall syllabus here and Spring syllabus here. Feel free to join!
You can download my CV here and contact me at tb3219'at'columbia.edu or thomasbourany'at'uchicago.edu.
News
May 2026: I will participate in the Philly Trade Group, to present my Job Market Paper The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements. Feel free to join if you are around Philadelphia!
Jan 2026: The paper The Winners and Losers of Climate Policies, A Sufficient Statistics Approach, joint with Jordan Rosenthal-Kay has been accepted at the Economic Journal.
Dec 2025: Paper Why HANK Matters for Stabilization Policy, joint with Xavier Ragot and Francois Le Grand: updated (and submitted).
Dec 2025: Paper Supply Chain Uncertainty and Diversification, joint with Gustavo Gonzalez and Ignacia Cuevas: Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics. New draft coming soon!
March 2025: My Job Market Paper The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements updated. New draft coming soon!
I specialize in macroeconomics, climate economics, and international trade. I am also interested in issues related to fiscal and monetary policies, as well as mathematical and computational methods in economics.
At Columbia, I am organizing the PhD reading group on Industrial Policy and Macro-Development with Lucía Casal, Filip Milosavljević, Eric Verhoogen, and Josh Whitford. Fall syllabus here and Spring syllabus here. Feel free to join!
You can download my CV here and contact me at tb3219'at'columbia.edu or thomasbourany'at'uchicago.edu.
News
May 2026: I will participate in the Philly Trade Group, to present my Job Market Paper The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements. Feel free to join if you are around Philadelphia!
Jan 2026: The paper The Winners and Losers of Climate Policies, A Sufficient Statistics Approach, joint with Jordan Rosenthal-Kay has been accepted at the Economic Journal.
Dec 2025: Paper Why HANK Matters for Stabilization Policy, joint with Xavier Ragot and Francois Le Grand: updated (and submitted).
Dec 2025: Paper Supply Chain Uncertainty and Diversification, joint with Gustavo Gonzalez and Ignacia Cuevas: Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of International Economics. New draft coming soon!
March 2025: My Job Market Paper The Optimal Design of Climate Agreements updated. New draft coming soon!