Welcome! I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Economics at NYU.
My research focuses on industrial organization, health economics,
and econometrics.
You can find my CV
here.
Research
Work in Progress
Demand Estimation with Market-Share Rankings
With Kenneth Lai
*Presented at EARIE 2026
Abstract
We propose a partial identification approach to estimate demand
systems with market-level data when market shares are unobserved,
but rankings of product sales are available. As is standard, we
model consumer choice as arising from comparing product-specific
utilities, which is the sum of systematic utilities (equal for all
consumers) and idiosyncratic taste components. Market shares
rankings restrict the feasible set of systematic utilities via
demand inversion, which leads to moment inequalities that partially
identify demand parameters. Our identified set is sharp under weak
regularity, and the approach applies to a wide class of demand
specifications, including random-coefficient models. The method
accommodates endogenous product characteristics and can incorporate
exact knowledge about some of the market shares for tighter
identification. To compute confidence sets, we implement a
computationally attractive procedure based on convex optimization
for demand coefficients in the multinomial and nested logit models.
In Monte Carlo simulations, our method systematically provides
meaningful bounds with correct statistical coverage around the true
demand parameters. In contrast, the leading approach in the
literature of imputing market shares using power-law models before
estimating demand results in substantial under-coverage of the true
parameter.
Slides
[Draft available upon request]
Policy Papers
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Government vs. Community Action Across the
United States
With Adam Brzezinski, Valentin Kecht, and David Van Dijcke
COVID Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers 7, CEPR, 2020
Abstract
Are lockdown policies effective at inducing physical distancing to
counter the spread of COVID-19? Can less restrictive measures that
rely on voluntary community action achieve a similar effect? Using
data from 40 million mobile devices, we find that a lockdown increases
the percentage of people who stay at home by 8% across US counties.
Grouping states with similar outbreak trajectories together and using
an instrumental variables approach, we show that time spent at home
can increase by as much as 39%. Moreover, we show that individuals
engage in limited physical distancing even in the absence of such
policies, once the virus takes hold in their area. Our analysis
suggests that non-causal estimates of lockdown policies’ effects can
yield biased results. We show that counties where people have less
distrust in science, are more highly educated, or have higher incomes
see a substantially higher uptake of voluntary physical distancing.
This suggests that the targeted promotion of distancing among less
responsive groups may be as effective as across-the-board lockdowns,
while also being less damaging to the economy.
Paper