Research at BEA | Staff Biography

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, Boston MA, 2008
• M.A., Political Economy, Boston University, Boston MA, 2006
• B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Columbia University, New York NY, 2003

Current Areas of Interest

• Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics

Working Papers

• "Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures"
  • with Abe Dunn
• "Geographic Variation in Commercial Medical-Care Expenditures: A Framework for Decomposing Price and Utilization"
  • with Abe Dunn and Eli Liebman
• "Medical Care Price Indexes for Patients with Employer-Provided Insurance: Nationally-Representative Estimates from MarketScan Data"
  • with Abe Dunn, Eli Liebman, and Sarah Pack
  • BEA Working Paper (WP2010-17) September 2010
• "Price Discrimination and Business-Cycle Risk"
  • with Kristopher S. Gerardi and Marco Cornia
  • November 2010
• "Implications of Consumer Heterogeneity on Price Measures for Technology Goods"
  • with Ana Aizcorbe
  • July 201
• "The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis"
  • with Adam M. Copeland
  • July 2010
• “Decomposing the Foreclosure Crisis: House Price Depreciation versus Bad Underwriting”
  • with Kristopher S. Gerardi and Paul S. Willen
  • September 2009
• “Subprime Outcomes: Risky Mortgages, Homeownership Experiences and Foreclosures”
  • with Kristopher S. Gerardi and Paul S. Willen
  • December 2007

Selected Publications

• “Does Competition Reduce Price Dispersion? New Evidence From the Airline Industry”
  • with Kristopher S. Gerardi
  • The Journal of Political Economy. February 2009. vol. 117 (1)
• “Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve: A Vertical Production Chain Approach”
  • Journal of Money,Credit and Banking. vol. 40(4) 628-666. June 2008