Economics Research


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

Affiliations: Harvard Business School (2009-2011, 2014-present), Harvard Department of Economics (2009-2011, 2013-present), Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (2015-present), Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (2013-present), National Bureau of Economic Research (2015-present), Harvard Society of Fellows (2013-2017), Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (2012-2016), Oxford Martin School (2016), Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (2011-2013), Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2011-present), Harvard Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) (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)

Grants and Fellowships: Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grant: "Market Design Responses to Inequality" [with M. Akbarpour, P. Dworczak, and R. Jagadeesan] (2019-2021), NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Grant: "Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation" [with L. Cohen and U. G. Gurun] (2015-present), NSF Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Grant: "Preferences in Matching Market Design" (2015-present), Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research Grant: "Computer Vision-Automated Surveys for Urban Science and Economic Development" [with E. L. Glaeser, R. Hanna, B. Olken, and N. Naik] (2016-2017), Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Grant: "Predictive Cities: Leveraging New Data and Methods to Improve Urban Quality of Life" [with E. L. Glaeser, M. Luca, and M. B. Weiss] (2016-2017), International Growth Centre Small Projects Grant [with E. L. Glaeser, R. Hanna, B. Olken, and N. Naik] (2015-2016), NSF Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Sciences (ICES) Grant: "Understanding the Roles of Intermediaries in Matching Markets" [with E. Budish, A. Hortaçsu, and N. Immorlica] (2012-2016), Oxford Martin School Visiting Fellowship (2016), William F. Milton Fund Grant (2014-2015), AMS-Simons Travel Grant (2011-2014), Human Capital and Economic Opportunity/Institute for New Economic Thinking Research Grant [with J. Garlapati] (2012-2013), Terence M. Considine Fellowship in Law and Economics (2010-2011), Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program Fellowship (2010-2011), NSF 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: Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (2015), Case Centre Award [Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management Category] (2015), Center for Excellence in Education Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement in STEM and Business (2013), 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:

Microeconomic Theory Papers:

Econometrics and Machine Learning Papers:

Urban Economics and Informatics Papers:

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Collaborators: David Abrams, Mohammad Akbarpour, Micah Altman, Keisuke Bando, Jordan M. Barry, Gary S. Becker, Jörn Boehnke, Eric Budish, Matthew Cary, John P. Cashy, Christian Catalini, Jiafeng Chen, Daniel Chiu, Lauren Cohen, Peter A. Coles, Vincent P. Crawford, Aparna Das, David Delacrétaz, Arnaud Dupuy, Umut Dur, Piotr Dworczak, Cynthia Dwork, Benjamin Edelman, Clayton R. Featherstone, Dustin D. French, Hu Fu, Drew Fudenberg, William L. Galanter, Alfred Galichon, Jay Garlapati, Ioannis Giotis, Edward L. Glaeser, Satyender Goel, John M. Golden, Yannai Gonczarowski, Devon Graham, Umit G. Gurun, Rema Hanna, John William Hatfield, Kurtis Heimerl, César A. Hidalgo, Andrew Hillis, Toshiyuki Hirai, Bala N. Hota, Ali Hortaçsu, John Eric Humphries, Nicole Immorlica, Yuhta Ishii, Kathryn L. Jackson, Sonia Jaffe, Ravi Jagadeesan, Roderick Jones, Erin O. Kaleba, Jonah Kallenbach, Yuichiro Kamada, Louis Kaplow, Anna R. Karlin, William R. Kerr, Abel N. Kho, Robert Kleinberg, Fuhito Kojima, Paul M. Kominers, Satish Kumar Sarraf, Harry R. Lewis, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Shengwu Li, Richard Lowery, Michael Luca, Taylor Lundy, Hongyao Ma, Jonathan Ma, Brad A. Malin, Claire Mathieu, David O. Meltzer, Paul R. Milgrom, Ali MohammadMehr, Tal Moran, Xiaosheng Mu, Kevin M. Murphy, Nikhil Naik, Alexandru Nichifor, Muriel Niederle, Benjamin Olken, Michael Ostrovsky, Adam R. Pah, David C. Parkes, Parag A. Pathak, Alexander Peysakhovich, Ramesh Raskar, Duncan Rheingans-Yoo, Ross Rheingans-Yoo, Alvin E. Roth, Guy Rothblum, Mike Ruberry, Michael Schwarz, Ran Shorrer, Shannon A. Sims, Tayfun Sönmez, Jörg L. Spenkuch, Alexander Teytelboym, Jonathan Ullman, M. Utku Ünver, Sara Uppal, Salil Vadhan, Theresa L. Walunas, Franklyn Wang, Alexander Wei, William Weingarten, Alexander Westkamp, Simon Weber, Mitchell B. Weiss, E. Glen Weyl, Tae Yoon Lee, Hedayat Zarkoob