|
Associate Professor of Economics Chicago Booth School of Business |
Contact details:
5807 S Woodlawn Ave Chicago, IL 60637 first.last -at- ChicagoBooth dot edu |
My research is on market design, using theory to understand how to design better rules and mechanism that will enable markets to better reach their goals.
Much of my work is on matching markets, for example college admission and the NRMP residency match. Tractable cutoff characterization can help elucidate the structure of matching markets and facilitate empirical estimation and optimization for policy goals.
Cryptocurrencies are a fascinating area for market design, as they are platforms with rules written in computer code. I taught a PhD class on the economics of distributed systems to bridge computer science theory and economic theory. If you are interested in class materials, please email me.
Before joining Chicago Booth I was in Columbia Business School and spent a year as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England. I did my PhD in Economics at Harvard, and got a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in pure math from Tel Aviv University. You can find my cv here.
My adviser published a great popular book on market design, which you can find here:
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-What-Why-Matchmaking/dp/0544291131
Much of my work is on matching markets, for example college admission and the NRMP residency match. Tractable cutoff characterization can help elucidate the structure of matching markets and facilitate empirical estimation and optimization for policy goals.
Cryptocurrencies are a fascinating area for market design, as they are platforms with rules written in computer code. I taught a PhD class on the economics of distributed systems to bridge computer science theory and economic theory. If you are interested in class materials, please email me.
Before joining Chicago Booth I was in Columbia Business School and spent a year as a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England. I did my PhD in Economics at Harvard, and got a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in pure math from Tel Aviv University. You can find my cv here.
My adviser published a great popular book on market design, which you can find here:
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Gets-What-Why-Matchmaking/dp/0544291131
Publications
Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Waiting-Lists
American Economic Review, 2022
(older working paper version)
Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
Review of Economic Studies, 2021
Selected for Highlights Beyond EC 2021
(preprint including online appendix, slides, presentation video)
Joint with Gur Huberman and Ciamac Moallemi
The importance of memory for price discovery in decentralized markets
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021
Joint with Bary Pradelski
The Cutoff Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice
Review of Economic Studies, 2020
(preprint, Supplementary Appendix)
Joint with Irene Lo
Bitcoin: An Impossibility Theorem for Proof-of-Work based Protocols
American Economic Review: Insights, 2020
Joint with Philipp Strack
Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition
Journal of Political Economy, 2017
(Simulation Code (in C#), Figures)
Joint with Itai Ashlagi and Yash Kanoria
A Supply and Demand Framework for Two-Sided Matching Markets
Journal of Political Economy, 2016 (Lead article)
(Supplementary Appendix, working paper version)
Joint with Eduardo M. Azevedo
Invited Publications
Large Matching Markets
prepared for the handbook of Online and Matching-Based Market Design
Cryptocurrencies as Marketplaces
NAE’s 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
An Economist's Perspective on the Bitcoin Payment System
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2019
Joint with Gur Huberman and Ciamac Moallemi
Working Papers
Information Acquisition in Matching Markets: The Role of Price Discovery
(Nontechnical coverage, Supplementary Appendix - Survey of Admission Systems)
Joint with Nicole Immorlica, Irene Lo, and Brendan Lucier
Stable Matching with Peer-Dependent Preferences in Large Markets: Existence and Cutoff Characterization
Price Discovery in Waiting Lists
(slides, video)
Joint with Itai Ashlagi, Pengyu Qian, and Amin Saberi
Older Papers
Universal Communication via Robust Coordination
Joint with Madhu Sudan
Lexicographic Probabilities as Similarity-Weighted Frequencies
Information Acquisition in Matching Markets: The Role of Price Discovery
(Nontechnical coverage, Supplementary Appendix - Survey of Admission Systems)
Joint with Nicole Immorlica, Irene Lo, and Brendan Lucier
Stable Matching with Peer-Dependent Preferences in Large Markets: Existence and Cutoff Characterization
Price Discovery in Waiting Lists
(slides, video)
Joint with Itai Ashlagi, Pengyu Qian, and Amin Saberi
Older Papers
Universal Communication via Robust Coordination
Joint with Madhu Sudan
Lexicographic Probabilities as Similarity-Weighted Frequencies
