Published Research
Evaluating Antitrust Remedies for Platform Monopolies: The Case of Facebook - 2023
Antitrust regulators should should use the theory of digital platforms to better design remedies, and should have the power to compel platforms to give them the data necessary to estimate the effects of remedies.
How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm - 2022
We measure the growth in API use by businesses, and measure the impact of adoption on firm outcomes. We find that APIs help platforms grow by 'inverting' the firm: i.e. recruiting external partners to develop complementary innovations and connect their resources to those of other firms.
Evaluating the Efficiency of US Social Distance Rationing During COVID-19 - 2021
We evaluate the efficiency of US social distancing policy, extending our analysis in 'Rationing Social Contact'. We find that policymaking failed to efficiently ration contact both across locations and time.
A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495-1918 - 2021
An analysis linking European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict. Random cuts of family ties between monarchs due to death are shown to increase bilateral war frequency and severity.
Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19 - 2020
We measure the welfare loss due to unpriced social distancing externalities and lack of coordination.
Joint with final authors Dean Eccles and Sinan Aral and others
Published at Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences
Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations - 2020
We measure the relative transmission reduction benefit and social cost of closing 26 categories of US locations. From February to March 2020, there were larger declines in visits to locations that our measures indicate should be closed first.
Joint with Avi Collis and Christos Nicolaides
Published at Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences
Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing OASI to Payable Benefits: A Comparison of Seven Overlapping Generations Models - 2019
Estimation of the economic effects of reducing social security benefits with seven large scale agent based models.
Joint with convening Authors Jaeger Nelson and Kerk Philips and others
Can Russia Survive Economic Sanctions - 2017
We find that capital import controls on Russia would reduce domestic lifetime welfare for most generations, even if Russia seized all foreign assets in response.