Sergio Salgado 🏃
Sergio Salgado

Assistant Professor of Finance

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. My research focuses on how household and firm heterogeneity shape macroeconomic outcomes and affect economic policy

I am part of the technical team behind The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) which harmonizes individual information on labor income dynamics using administrative data. If you want to join the GRID, contact me and Serdar Ozkan

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Interests
  • Macroeconomics
  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2019

    University of Minnesota

  • MSc in Economics, 2010

    University of Chile

  • BSc in Economics, 2005

    University of Santiago of Chile

My Research
(2024). Scalable versus Productive Technologies. Working Paper.
(2023). Heterogeneous Passthrough from TFP to Wages. Working Paper. R&R JOLE.
(2023). Wage Setting and Passthrough: The Role of Market Power, Production Technology, and Adjustment Costs. Working Paper.
(2023). Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy?. Working Paper. R&R Econometrica.
My Discussions
(2024). Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship.
(2022). The Effect of Within-Firm Pay Inequality on Firm Performance.