I am an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. I study the economics of competition and other topics in industrial organization using a combination of theory and data.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Research Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Antitrust and Competition Policy
- Applied Econometrics
- Microeconomics
Current Research
Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences
(with H. Döpper, N. H. Miller, and J. Stiebale)
What Drives Variation in Investor Portfolios? Evidence from Retirement Plans
(with M. Egan and H. Yang)
[NBER Working Paper w29604]
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
(with I. Mercadal)
Consumer Inertia and Market Power
(with M. Remer)
Revision requested, RAND Journal of Economics
Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions
(with N. H. Miller)
Selected Publications
Competition in Pricing Algorithms
(with Z. Y. Brown)
Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Recovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
(with M. Egan and H. Yang)
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies
Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions
Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation
(with T. Deryugina and J. Reif)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020