Department of Economics

"Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: Medicare Payments for Dialysis Drugs" (joint with Martin Gaynor and Nirav Mehta)

"Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage"

"Secrecy Rules and Exploratory Investment: Theory and Evidence from the Shale Boom" (co-authored with Thomas R. Covert)

"Demand Spillover and Inequality in the WIC Program" (co-authored with Kathleen Hui, Yuval Salant, and Kosuke Uetake)

"Optimal Urban Transit Policy: Evidence from Chicago" Abstract: We quantify optimal urban transportation policies in the presence of congestion, network, and environmental externalities. We show theoretically that, beyond externality distortions, a budget constrained social planner introduces additional inefficiencies similar to those of a monopolist. We then move to an empirical analysis of the transportation system […]