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

Affiliations: John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business (2010-present), 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: 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), Danielan Fund Research and Travel Grant (2010), Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Faculty Grant [with E. G. Weyl] (2009-2010), 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: 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:

• Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks [with J. W. Hatfield, A. Nichifor, M. Ostrovsky, and A. Westkamp]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• Concordance among Holdouts [with E. G. Weyl]. (Working paper, online appendix.) (Software [designed by W. Weingarten].)
• Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]. (Working paper.) (Extended abstract, Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, (2010), pp. 119-120.)
• Contract Design and Stability in Matching Markets [with J. W. Hatfield]. (Working paper.)
• Course Assignment via Proxy Auctions [with M. Ruberry and J. Ullman]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• 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.)

Game Theory and Mechanism Design Papers:

• A Green-Laffont Theorem for Positive-valuation Domains. (In preparation.)
• Information Can Wreck Cooperation: A Counterpoint to Kandori (1992) [with Y. Kamada]. (Economics Letters 107(2), (2010), pp. 112-114.) (Preprint.)

Law and Economics Papers:

• Second-order Critical Loss Analysis [with C. Shapiro]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• Salary Erosion and Federal Judicial Resignation. (Working paper, first revision.)

Industrial Agglomeration Papers:

• Tipping Points and Agglomeration Bubbles [with W. R. Kerr]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• A Concentration-Based Index of Industrial Agglomeration [with B. Harrison]. (Working paper available upon request.)
• Measuring Agglomeration. (Unpublished expository paper.)

Research Assistanceships:

• Prof. Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University Department of Economics and Kennedy School, (2007-2009)
  • Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
  • 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, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, Mike Ruberry, Carl Shapiro, Jonathan Ullman, William Weingarten, Alexander Westkamp, E. Glen Weyl