Research Interests: Mathematical economics, Market and mechanism design, Matching theory, Game theory, Agglomeration, Economics of entry, Law and economics, Eminent domain

Affiliations: Harvard Business School (2009-present), Harvard University Department of Economics (2009-present), Harvard EconCS Group (2009-present), Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (2008-present)

Fellowships: Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Faculty Grant [with E. G. Weyl] (2009-2010), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2009-2011), National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (declined, 2009), Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science Summer Research Scholars Program Fellowship (2008), Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering Program Assistant Fellowship (2008)

Awards: AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student (2010), George Caspar Homans Prize (2009)

Papers:

• Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]. (Working paper.) (Extended abstract forthcoming, Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, (2010).)
• Many-to-Many Matching with Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]. (Working paper, first revision.)
• Course Assignment via Proxy Auctions [with M. Ruberry and J. Ullman]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• Many-to-Many Matching with Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]. (Working paper, first revision.)
• Information Can Wreck Cooperation: A Counterpoint to Kandori (1992) [with Y. Kamada]. (Forthcoming, Economics Letters.) (Preprint.)
• Matching with Preferences over Colleagues Solves Classical Matching. (Games and Economic Behavior 68(2), (2010), pp. 773-780.) (Preprint.)
• Sticky Content and the Structure of the Commercial Web. (Working paper, NetEcon'09 version.)
• Dynamic Position Auctions with Consumer Search. (Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5564, (2009), pp. 240-250. {Zbl pre05574794.}) (Preprint.)
• Discrete Choice and the Social Multiplier. (Working paper.)
• A Concentration-Based Index of Industrial Agglomeration [with B. Harrison]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• Salary Erosion and Federal Judicial Resignation. (Working paper, first revision.)

Current Projects:

• Concordance Among Holdouts [with E. G. Weyl].
• Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield].
• Tipping Points and Agglomeration Bubbles [with W. R. Kerr].

Comments:

• Response to May 2007 article by Frank Giarratani, Gene Gruver, & Randall Jackson on Industry Agglomeration. (Economic Development Quarterly 22(3), (2008), pp. 264-266.)

Expository Articles:

• Measuring Agglomeration. (Unpublished.)

Research Assistanceships:

• Prof. Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University Department of Economics and Harvard Kennedy School, (2007-present)
  • Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
  • Housing Dynamics
  • Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles
• Prof. William R. Kerr, Harvard Business School, (2008-2009)
• Prof. Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University Department of Economics, (2008)
• Prof. Susan Athey, Harvard University Department of Economics, (2008)
• Position Auctions with Consumer Search

Collaborators: Brett Harrison, John William Hatfield, Yuichiro Kamada, William R. Kerr, Mike Ruberry, Jonathan Ullman, E. Glen Weyl