My fields of interest are industrial organization, public economics, health economics, and economic history. Here is a link to my current research statement.
Publications
Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
NBER Working Paper 24663 and CEPR Discussion Paper 14394
Accepted The Review of Economics and Statistics
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
with Andres Dean and Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper 12982
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3)
U.S. Postal Savings Banks and the Collapse of B&Ls During the Great Depression
with Matthew Jaremski and Steven Sprick Schuster
Center for Growth and Opportunity, Working paper 2020.005
Southern Economic Journal, 89, 2023
Incumbent Regulation and Adverse Selection: You Can Keep Your Health Plan, But at What Cost?
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
with Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80
NBER Working Paper 25246
Economic crisis and the demise of a popular contractual form: Building & Loans in the 1930s
with Price Fishback and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36
NBER Working Paper 21786
Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
NBER Working Paper 24663 and CEPR Discussion Paper 14394
Accepted The Review of Economics and Statistics
Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits
with Andres Dean and Mariana Zerpa
IZA Discussion Paper 12982
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3)
U.S. Postal Savings Banks and the Collapse of B&Ls During the Great Depression
with Matthew Jaremski and Steven Sprick Schuster
Center for Growth and Opportunity, Working paper 2020.005
Southern Economic Journal, 89, 2023
Incumbent Regulation and Adverse Selection: You Can Keep Your Health Plan, But at What Cost?
with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso
Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
with Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80
NBER Working Paper 25246
Economic crisis and the demise of a popular contractual form: Building & Loans in the 1930s
with Price Fishback and Kenneth Snowden
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36
NBER Working Paper 21786
Working papers
Difference-in-Differences When Unites are Substitutes: Evidence from Place-Based Policies
with Guillermo Alves and William Burton
CEPR Discussion Paper 18916
Revise and Resubmit Journal of the European Economic Association
Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds
with Pablo Blanchard and Rodrigo Gonzalez-Valdenegro
CEPR Discussion Paper 21152
Reject and Resubmit American Economic Review
Group Health Insurance Versus ACA Marketplaces: Selection, Subsidies and Welfare
with Caitlyn Fleming, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso (submitted)
NBER Working Paper 33938 and CEPR Discussion Paper 20350
Revise and Resubmit Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
Who Benefits when inertia is reduced?: Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
CEPR Discussion Paper 14292
Revise and Resubmit American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Markups and Mergers in the US Hospital Industry
with Jan De Loecker (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 21938
(for data construction see Bagnoli, De Loecker and Fleitas (2021)
Market design for High VRE Systems
with Igal Hendel and Ramon Mendez-Galain (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 21952
Occupational Licensing Without Learning
with Pablo Blanchard and Nicolas Malfetano
CEPR Discussion Paper 22018
Patient Choice, Payment Systems and Multidimensional Quality
with Enrico Camarda (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 20283
Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The costs of lock-in in health care markets: evidence from hospital choice in Uruguay
Difference-in-Differences When Unites are Substitutes: Evidence from Place-Based Policies
with Guillermo Alves and William Burton
CEPR Discussion Paper 18916
Revise and Resubmit Journal of the European Economic Association
Regulation by Public Options: Evidence from Pension Funds
with Pablo Blanchard and Rodrigo Gonzalez-Valdenegro
CEPR Discussion Paper 21152
Reject and Resubmit American Economic Review
Group Health Insurance Versus ACA Marketplaces: Selection, Subsidies and Welfare
with Caitlyn Fleming, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Anthony Lo Sasso (submitted)
NBER Working Paper 33938 and CEPR Discussion Paper 20350
Revise and Resubmit Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
Who Benefits when inertia is reduced?: Competition, quality and returns to skill in health care markets
CEPR Discussion Paper 14292
Revise and Resubmit American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Markups and Mergers in the US Hospital Industry
with Jan De Loecker (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 21938
(for data construction see Bagnoli, De Loecker and Fleitas (2021)
Market design for High VRE Systems
with Igal Hendel and Ramon Mendez-Galain (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 21952
Occupational Licensing Without Learning
with Pablo Blanchard and Nicolas Malfetano
CEPR Discussion Paper 22018
Patient Choice, Payment Systems and Multidimensional Quality
with Enrico Camarda (submitted)
CEPR Discussion Paper 20283
Dynamic Competition and Price Regulation When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The costs of lock-in in health care markets: evidence from hospital choice in Uruguay
Work in progress
Heterogeneity in Consumer Climate Adaptation: Evidence from a Water Scarcity Crisis
with Santiago Acerenza, Nestor Gandelman and Leandro Zipitria
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
with Gautam Gowrisankaran, Amanda Starc, Ashley Swanson and Robert Town
Static and Dynamic Incentives in Selection Markets
with Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo Azevedo
Heterogeneity in Consumer Climate Adaptation: Evidence from a Water Scarcity Crisis
with Santiago Acerenza, Nestor Gandelman and Leandro Zipitria
The Power of Exclusion: Pharmacy Networks and Bargaining in Medicare Part D
with Gautam Gowrisankaran, Amanda Starc, Ashley Swanson and Robert Town
Static and Dynamic Incentives in Selection Markets
with Juan Pablo Atal and Eduardo Azevedo