Innovation, Microeconomic Theory, Economic History, History of Thought, AI, Entrepreneurship, Progress
2024-Present
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
2024-Present
Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab Toronto
2022-Present
Co-Founder, All Day TA
2022-Present
Research Fellow, Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy
2018-Present
Faculty Affiliate, School of Cities
2009-2014
Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management
PhD - Managerial Economics and Strategy
2011
MS - Managerial Economics and Strategy
2008
Virginia Commonwealth University
MS - Mathematics
2006
Boston University
MA - Economics
2006
BA - Intl. Relations, Economics [summa cum laude]
2014-2021
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
2021
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
Professeur Invité d'Entrepreneuriat
2015-2024
Creative Destruction Lab
Lab Economist
2016
Duke University Fuqua School
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
2007-2008
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Assistant Economist
2006-2007
Research Associate
2005
Department of Commerce FCS Beijing
Research Intern
Forthcoming
Entrepreneurial Migration (w/ J. Guzman)
Review of Economics and Statistics
September 2022
Value Capture in the Face of Known and Unknown Unknowns (w/ M. Ryall and B. Schipper)
Strategy Science
May 2022
R&D Competition and the Direction of Innovation (w/ J. Lemus & G. Marshall)
International Journal of Industrial Organization
January 2022
Downstream Health Impacts of Employment Losses During the Covid-19 Pandemic (w/ E. Buajitti, I. Giesinger, V. Goel & L. Rosella)
Canadian Journal of Public Health
2021
Markets for Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies (w/ H. Williams)
The Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume 5
December 2021
The Impact of Open Access Mandates on Invention (w/ Y. Ozcan)
Review of Economics and Statistics
June 2021
The Economic and Long-Term Health Consequences of Canadian Covid Lockdowns (w/ E. Buajitti, V. Goel & L. Rosella)
Canadian Public Policy
June 2020
Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
Review of Industrial Organization
May 2020
In-Text Patent Citations: A User's Guide (w/ Y. Ozcan and B. Sampat)
Research Policy
May 2020
Allocation of Decision Rights Under Human & Artificial Intelligence (w/ S. Athey & J. Gans)
American Economic Review P&P
March 2020
Startup Acquisitions, Error Costs, and Antitrust Policy (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
University of Chicago Law Review
July 2019
Young Stars in Economics: What They Do and Where They Go
Economic Inquiry
Spring 2019
A Theory of Multihoming in Rideshare Competition (w/ J. Gans)
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
November 2017
The Direction of Innovation (w/ J. Lemus)
Journal of Economic Theory
May 2017
Which Entrepreneurs are Coachable, and Why? (w/ A. Tilcsik & B. Zhu)
American Economic Review P&P
Industrial Reversals of Fortune: The Meaning of Invention in the Early Airplane Industry
R&R, Journal of Economic History
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups (w/ M. Hoffman & A. Sariri)
R&R, American Economic Journal: Applied
Profitable Double Marginalization (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
Nonprice MFNs and Entry Deterrence in Platform Markets (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
An Investment Theory of Bargaining (w/ M. Ryall)
Sequential Search on a Partition
2024
Innovation
Elgar Encylopedia on the Economics of Competition, Regulation and Antitrust
2024
Balancing Market Innovation Incentives and Regulation in AI (w/ F. Teodoridis)
Brookings Institute Technology Policy & Regulation, Sep 24 2024
2022
How Can a Population Health Approach Be Both Useful and Credible?
Healthcare Papers, January
2017
The Perils of Path Dependence
in book Survive and Thrive (eds J. Gans & S. Kaplan)
2016
Contracts for Adaptive Programming (w/ P. Carter)
Overseas Development Institute Report
2009
Semiparametric Estimation of Land Price Gradients Using Large Data Sets (w/ P.-D. Sarte)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 95.1
2008
On the Evolution of Income Inequality in the United States (w/ L. Martinez)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 94.2
2007
The Evolution of City Population Density in the United States (w/ P.-D. Sarte & B. Minton)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 93.4