Biography

Interests

  • Price Theory
  • Information Economics
  • Competition and Innovation
  • Political Economy

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2020

    University of Minnesota

  • MA in Economics, 2017

    University of Minnesota

  • MSc in Economics of Public Policy, 2014

    Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

  • BA in Physics and Political Science, 2012

    St. Olaf College

Publications

(2022). Inframarginal Externalities: COVID-19, Vaccines, and Collective Action. Public Choice.

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(2022). Testing the Hayek Hypothesis: Recent Theoretical and Field Experimental Evidence. PLoS ONE.

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(2022). Evolution, Uncertainty, and the Asymptotic Efficiency of Policy. Public Choice.

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(2022). On Price Stability with a Job Guarantee. Contemporary Economic Policy.

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(2018). Preventing plunder: Military technology, capital accumulation, and economic growth. Journal of Macroeconomics.

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(2017). Positive public economics: reinterpreting 'optimal' policies. Journal of Economic Methodology.

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Working Papers

(2024). Labor Monopsony and Antitrust Enforcement: A Cautionary Tale.

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(2023). Markups and Business Dynamism across Industries.

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(2023). Time Use and the Efficiency of Heterogeneous Markups. Reject and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies.

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(2023). Market Microstructure and Informational Efficiency. Under Review.

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(2023). Comparison Shopping: Learning Before Buying From Duopolists.

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(2021). Bargaining with Opportunity Discovery (title redacted for entrepreneurship journal).

(2021). Investment without Coordination Failures. Under Review.

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(2020). Coasean Causal Inference: Using Models as Foils.

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(2017). Political Persuasion.

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(2016). Entrepreneurship as Coordination.

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Other Publications

(2024). Greed and corporate concentration do not cause inflation. The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy.

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(2023). The Under-Appreciated Thomas Sowell. The Independent Review.

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(2018). Exchange, Search Theory, and Buchanan's Foundations of Politics. Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan.

(2017). The Breakdown of Spontaneous Order: Smith and Hayek Diverge. New York University Journal of Law and Liberty.

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Economic Forces

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