Research
I am an applied microeconomist, broadly speaking. I spend a lot of time thinking about corruption especially, and social preferences -- two topics that are somewhat unrelated, though not completely...I have also had the very good fortune to work with scholars across a number of other areas within economics.
Featured Research
- with Aron Malatinszky and Eyub Yegen, forthcoming, American Economic Review
- Revolving Door Laws and Political Selectionwith Jetson Leder-Luis, Catherine O'Donnell, and Silvia Vannutelli, working paper
- Information-Optional Policies and the Gender Concealment Gapwith Christine Exley, Judd Kessler Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, Corinne Low, Xiaoyue Shan, Mattie Toma, and Basit Zafar, working paper
- Estimating the Value of Political ConnectionsAmerican Economic Review, 2001
- Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Ticketswith Ted Miguel, Journal of Political Economy, 2007
Papers
Recent Papers
- NBER Working Paper, 2025
- Working Paper, 2025
- Working Paper, 2025
Publications
- Journal of Financial Economics, 2026
- Journal of Public Economics, 2025
- The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, 2025