research

PUBLISHED and Forthcoming PaperS:

Regulatory Competition and the Market for Corporate Law, with Ofer Eldar - AEJ:Microeconomics Vol. 12, No. 2, May 2020 (pp. 60-98) - Featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

A Comparison of Testing and Estimation of Firm Conduct, with Christopher Sullivan - Economics Letters Vol. 212, March 2022 (pp. 110316) - preprint

Differentiated-Products Cournot Attributes Higher Markups Than Bertrand-Nash, with Daniel Quint, Christopher Sullivan and Sarah Waldfogel - Economics Letters Vol. 219, October 2022 (pp. 110804) - preprint

Estimation of Discrete Games with Weak Assumptions on Information, with Camilla Roncoroni - Review of Economic Studies Vol. 90, Issue 4, July 2023, (pp. 2006–2041), Featured Article - Young Economists' Essay Award at EARIE 2016, Young Economist Prize at XXXI Jornadas de Economía Industrial - preprint

The Rise of Urgent Care Centers: Implications for Competition and Access to Health Care, with Corina Mommaerts, Natalia Serna, and Christopher Sullivan - Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics Vol. 2, Issue 2, May 2024 (pp. 201—243) - preprint

Testing Firm Conduct, with Marco Duarte, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Christopher Sullivan - Quantitative Economics Vol. 15, Issue 3, July 2024 (pp. 571—606) - preprint

The Competitive Conduct of Consumer Cooperatives, with Marco Duarte and Camilla Roncoroni - Forthcoming at RAND Journal of Economics - YouTube video of CEPR VIOS talk

Triplet Embeddings for Demand Estimation, with Jonathon McClure and Alan Sorensen - Extended Abstract in EC 22: “Embeddings and Distance-based Demand for Differentiated Products” - Accepted at AEJ:Microeconomics

Working Papers:

Estimation of Games under No Regret: Structural Econometrics for AI, with Niccolò Lomys

Multi-homing Policies and Collusion: Unintended Consequences for Digital Platforms, with John Higgins, Daniel Quint, and Christopher Sullivan (submitted).

Learning Firm Conduct: Pass-Through as a Foundation for Instrument Relevance, with Adam Dearing, Daniel Quint, Christopher Sullivan, and Sarah Waldfogel (submitted). NBER working paper #32863 (Aug. 2024). This paper supersedes Falsifying Models of Firm Conduct, with Daniel Quint, Christopher Sullivan, and Sarah Waldfogel

An Equilibrium Model of Rollover Lotteries, with Giovanni Compiani and Lones Smith

Testing Information Ordering for Strategic Agents, with Sukjin Han and Hiroaki Kaido

Political Connections and Market Structure, with Camilla Roncoroni - Public Utility Research Prize for the Best Paper in Regulatory Economics at IIOC 2017

SOME Work in Progress:

Enhancing the Merger Simulation Toolkit with ML/AI, with Harold Chiang, Jack Collison, and Christopher Sullivan - slides

Beyond Constant Cost: Conduct Testing with Economies of Scale, with Marco Duarte, Daniel Quint, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Christopher Sullivan - slides

Estimating Algorithmic Collusion: Robust Identification and Inference in Repeated Games, with Antonio Cozzolino, Cristina Gualdani, and Niccolò Lomys

software packages:

pyRVtest: A Python package for testing firm conduct, with Marco Duarte, Mikkel Sølvsten, Christopher Sullivan, and Anya Tarascina

Teaching

• ECON 301: Intermediate Microeconomics (Fall 2016, 2019-2022, 2024; Spring 2018)

• ECON 690/725/899: Machine Learning for Economists - M.A. Level (Fall 2018-2022, 2024)

• ECON 762/761: Empirical Industrial Organization - Ph.D. Level (Fall 2016, 2019-2022, 2024; Spring 2018, 2019)

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