I study how the design of digital platform markets and other information environments shapes competition, innovation, and strategic behavior.

This agenda is anchored in my work on digital platforms, where a single firm designs the competitive environment—how products are rated, who controls user data, and whether the platform itself competes with the firms built on it. It extends to strategic communication—airlines using earnings calls to coordinate capacity reductions, political campaigns choosing whether to engage their opponents’ messages—and to recent work on the relationship between AI use and managerial ability.

My research frequently addresses antitrust and regulatory policy, and has been cited in congressional testimony and presented to economists at the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. I have a methodological interest in bringing unstructured text data into economic analysis, and frequently use natural language processing and machine learning techniques in my work.

A list of published and working papers is available on my Research page.

I am an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Economics at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business, a Distinguished Affiliate at CESifo, and co-chair of the National Association for Business Economics' annual Tech Economics Conference.

I received my M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia, and my B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina.