
Deputy Assistant Director
Selected Publications
- "Why is Distance Important for Hospital Choice? Separating Home Bias from Transport Costs," with Devesh Raval, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2020.
- "Prices for Medical Services Vary Within Hospitals, But Vary More Across Them," with Matthew Panhans and Nathan Wilson, Medical Care Research and Review, 2020.
- "A Review of the Economic Literature on Cross-Market Healthcare Mergers," with Keith Brand, Antitrust Law Journal, 2019.
- "Improving Estimates of Transitions from Satellite Data: A Hidden Markov Model Approach," with Adrian Torchiana, Paul Scott, and Eduardo Souza Rodrigues, Review of Economics and Statistics (Revise and Resubmit).
- "Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand," with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson, RAND Journal of Economics (Conditionally Accepted).
- "Cultural and Geographic Proximity in the United States Automotive Industry," Economic Inquiry (Revise and Resubmit).
- "How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Perform in Changing Environment? Evidence from Disaster Induced Hospital Closures," with Devesh Raval and Nathan Wilson, Journal of Health Economics.
- "Why Do Previous Choices Matter for Hospital Demand? Decomposing Switching Costs from Unobserved Preferences," with Devesh Raval, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.
- "A Semiparametric Discrete Choice Model: An Application to Hospital Mergers," with Devesh Raval and Steven Tenn, Economic Inquiry, 2017.
Selected Presentations
- "How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Perform in Changing Environment? Evidence from Disaster Induced Hospital Closures," APPAM. Denver, CO (2019)
- "Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand," ASHEcon. Washington, DC (2019)
- "How Strong is Gravity? Using Hospital Choice to Separate Home Bias from Distance Costs," NYC Health Econonmics Day. New York, NY (2019)
- "Economics of Hospital Merger Enforcement," FTC Common Ground Conference. New York, NY (2019)
- "Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand," Israel Competition Authority. Jerusalem, Israel (2019)
Selected Casework
Education
Fields of Interest
- Industrial Organization
- Antitrust
- Health Economics
Professional Experience
Deputy Assistant Director
Federal Trade Commission
2021-Present
Editorial Board
Antitrust Law Journal
2016-Present
Economist
Federal
Trade Commission
2013-Present
Economic Advisor to Commissioner Phillips
Federal Trade Commission
2018-2020
Adjunct Professor
Johns Hopkins University
2016-2016