Deputy Assistant Director
Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
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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
Yale University
PhD Economics
Yale University
MA Economics
University of Pennsylvania
BA Economics
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