Deputy Assistant Director
Bureau, Office or Division
Consumer Protection
Email Address
Selected Publications
- "Economics at the FTC: Estimating Harm from Deception and Analyzing Mergers," with M. Vita, K. Brand, M. Larson-Koester, N. Petek, C. Taragin, and W. Violette, Review of Industrial Organization, 2022.
- "Communication-Enhancing Vagueness," Games, 2022.
- "Threats and Promises in Bargaining," with B. Chung, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019.
- "Cognitive dissonance, motivated reasoning, and confirmation bias: Applications in Industrial Organization," with D. Stone, Handbook of Behavioral Industrial Organization (C. Tremblay and V. Tremblay, editors, Edward Elgar Publishing), 2018.
- "The effect of effectiveness: Donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment," with D. Karlan, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017.
- "Informal property rights as stable conventions in hawk-dove games with many players," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2015.
- "The political economy of regulation in markets with naive consumers," with P. Warren, Journal of the European Economics Association, 2015.
Selected Casework
Education
Harvard University
PhD Economics
Swarthmore College
BA Philosophy and Economics
Fields of Interest
- Game Theory
- Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Economics
Professional Experience
Deputy Assistant Director
Federal Trade Commission
2021-Present
Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2016-2020
Assistant Professor of Economics
Clemson University
2009-2016