Economics Research


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

Affiliations: Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (2011-present), Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2011-present), Harvard Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) (2011), Harvard Business School (2009-2011), Harvard EconCS Group (2009-2011), John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business (2010-2011), Harvard University Department of Economics (2009-2011), Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (2008-2011)

Fellowships: AMS-Simons Travel Grant (2011-2013), Terence M. Considine Fellowship in Law and Economics (2010-2011), Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Fellowship (2010-2011), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2009-2011), Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Faculty Grant [with E. G. Weyl] (2009-2011), Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science Travel Grant (2010), Danielan Fund Research and Travel Grant (2010), 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: Third Place in Romanian Institute of Science and Technology "Best PhD Thesis in Computational Game Theory" Competition (2011), Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Selectee (2010), AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student (2010), George Caspar Homans Prize (2009)

Market Design Papers:

Game Theory Papers:

Econometric Theory Papers:

Industrial Agglomeration Papers:

Law and Economics Papers:

Research Assistanceships:

Collaborators: David Abrams, Micah Altman, Peter A. Coles, Cynthia Dwork, Benjamin Edelman, Clayton R. Featherstone, Drew Fudenberg, Brett Harrison, John William Hatfield, Nicole Immorlica, Yuhta Ishii, Sonia Jaffe, Yuichiro Kamada, William R. Kerr, Fuhito Kojima, Harry R. Lewis, Tal Moran, Alexandru Nichifor, Muriel Niederle, Michael Ostrovsky, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, Guy Rothblum, Mike Ruberry, Carl Shapiro, Jonathan Ullman, Salil Vadhan, William Weingarten, Alexander Westkamp, E. Glen Weyl