Papers by Thomas Bourany

Thomas Bourany

PhD Student in Economics · University of Chicago

PhD student in economics at the University of Chicago (as of the Stevanovich Center page), working on macroeconomics, climate economics and international trade, with a focus on carbon taxation and climate-policy design.

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Published The Economic Journal Online 24 Feb 2026 Published Jul 2026

The Winners and Losers of Climate Policies: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Thomas Bourany · Jordan Rosenthal-Kay

This paper asks who wins and loses from climate policies — carbon taxes, renewable subsidies, and carbon tariffs — across 193 heterogeneous countries, and by how much. The motivation is that the …

Fiscal Policy International Inequality Macro Dynamics

Published Classic Online 1 Sep 2023

A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous Agent Models

Anmol Bhandari · Thomas Bourany · David Evans · Mikhail Golosov

This paper reformulates perturbation approximation of heterogeneous-agent models as the problem of finding directional derivatives that solve small, analytically-characterized linear systems -- a …

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