Acting Director
Bureau, Office or Division
Office of the Director
Phone
(202) 326-2275
Email Address
Selected Publications
- "Improving Estimates of Transitions from Satellite Data: A Hidden Markov Model Approach," with Adrian Torchiana, Paul Scott, and Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
- "In the Shadow of Antitrust Enforcement: Price Effects of Hospital Mergers from 2009-2016," with Keith Brand and Chris Garmon, Journal of Law & Economics, 2023.
- "Using disaster-induced closures to evaluate discrete choice models of hospital demand," with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson, The RAND Journal of Economics, 2022.
- "Prices for Medical Services Vary Within Hospitals, but Vary More Across Them," With Matthew Panhans and Nathan Wilson, Medical Care Research and Review, 2021.
- "Why is Distance Important for Hospital Choice? Separating Home Bias from Transport Costs," with Devesh Raval, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2021.
- "How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Perform in Predicting Hospital Choices? Evidence from Changing Environments," with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson, Journal of Health Economics, 2021.
- "Why Do Previous Choices Matter for Hospital Demand? Decomposing Switching Costs from Unobserved Preferences," with Devesh Raval, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.
- "A review of the economic literature on cross-market health care mergers," with Keith Brand, Antitrust Law Journal, 2018.
- "A Semiparametric Discrete Choice Model: An Application to Hospital Mergers," with Devesh Raval and Steven Tenn, Economic Inquiry, 2017.
Selected Presentations
- Can Divestitures Lessen Competition? Evidence from the Reynolds/Lorillard Merger. Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC (2024)
- In the Shadow of Antitrust Enforcement: Price Effects of Hospital Mergers from 2009-2016. ASHEcon Conference. St. Louis, MO (2023)
- Can Divestitures Lessen Competition? Evidence from the Reynolds/Lorillard Merger. FDA. (2023)
- In the Shadow of Antitrust Enforcement: Price Effects of Hospital Mergers from 2009-2016. Southern Economic Association. Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2022)
Selected Casework
Education
Yale University
PhD, Economics
Yale University
MA, Economics
University of Pennsylvania
BA, Economics
Fields of Interest
- Industrial Organization
- Antitrust
- Health Economics
- Spatial Economics
Professional Experience
Deputy Director for Research and Management
Federal Trade Commission
2023-Present
Deputy Assistant Director
Federal Trade Commission
2020-2023
Economic Advisor to Commissioner Phillips
Federal Trade Commission
2018-2020
Editorial Board
Antitrust Law Journal
2016-Present
Economist
Federal
Trade Commission
2013-2020