[Complete CV in PDF: October 2024]; abridged html version below
Fields of Interest
Innovation, Microeconomic Theory, Economic History, History of Thought
Academic Positions
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab Toronto
Co-Founder, All Day TA
Research Fellow, Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy
Faculty Affiliate, School of Cities
Education
Northwestern, Kellogg School of Management
PhD - Managerial Economics and Strategy
MS - Managerial Economics and Strategy
Virginia Commonwealth University
MS - Mathematics
Boston University
MA - Economics
BA - Intl. Relations, Economics [summa cum laude]
Previous Positions
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar
Professeur Visité d'Entrepreneuriat
Creative Destruction Lab
Lab Economist
Duke University Fuqua School
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Assistant Economist
Research Associate
Department of Commerce FCS Beijing
Research Intern
Publications
Entrepreneurial Migration (w/ J. Guzman)
Review of Economics and Statistics
Value Capture in the Face of Known and Unknown Unknowns (w/ M. Ryall and B. Schipper)
Strategy Science
R&D Competition and the Direction of Innovation (w/ J. Lemus & G. Marshall)
International Journal of Industrial Organization
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
Markets for Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies (w/ H. Williams)
The Handbook of Industrial Organization, Volume 5
The Impact of Open Access Mandates on Invention (w/ Y. Ozcan)
Review of Economics and Statistics
The Economic and Long-Term Health Consequences of Canadian Covid Lockdowns (w/ E. Buajitti, V. Goel & L. Rosella)
Canadian Public Policy
Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
Review of Industrial Organization
In-Text Patent Citations: A User's Guide (w/ Y. Ozcan and B. Sampat)
Research Policy
Allocation of Decision Rights Under Human & Artificial Intelligence (w/ S. Athey & J. Gans)
American Economic Review P&P
Startup Acquisitions, Error Costs, and Antitrust Policy (w/ E. Hovenkamp)
University of Chicago Law Review
Young Stars in Economics: What They Do and Where They Go
Economic Inquiry
A Theory of Multihoming in Rideshare Competition (w/ J. Gans)
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
The Direction of Innovation (w/ J. Lemus)
Journal of Economic Theory
Which Entrepreneurs are Coachable, and Why? (w/ A. Tilcsik & B. Zhu)
American Economic Review P&P
Working Papers
Industrial Reversals of Fortune: The Meaning of Invention in the Early Airplane Industry
R&R, Journal of Economic History
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)
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups (w/ M. Hoffman & A. Sariri)
Sequential Search on a Partition
Other Publications
How Can a Population Health Approach Be Both Useful and Credible?
Healthcare Papers, January
The Perils of Path Dependence
in book Survive and Thrive (eds J. Gans & S. Kaplan)
Contracts for Adaptive Programming (w/ P. Carter)
Overseas Development Institute Report
Semiparametric Estimation of Land Price Gradients Using Large Data Sets (w/ P.-D. Sarte)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 95.1
On the Evolution of Income Inequality in the United States (w/ L. Martinez)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 94.2
The Evolution of City Population Density in the United States (w/ P.-D. Sarte & B. Minton)
FRB Richmond Economic Quarterly 93.4