I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. My research is in industrial organization and labor economics, and covers topics related to vertical contracting, monopsony/oligopsony power, and firm productivity.
I am also a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER, a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, and an Associate Editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
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Working Papers
(7) Welfare Effects of Buyer and Seller Power (with Mert Demirer)
(6) Labor-Market Power, Deadweight Loss, and Technology Adoption
Revise & Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
Published and Accepted
(5) Exploiting or Augmenting Labor? (with Yingjie Wu and Mingzhi Xu)
American Economic Review: Insights, Forthcoming, June 2025
(4) Estimating Factor Price Markdowns using Production Models (with Yingjie Wu and Mingzhi Xu)
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 102, September 2025 (Special Issue EARIE)
(3) Colluding Against Workers (with Vincent Delabastita)
Journal of Political Economy, 133(6) pp. 1796-1839, June 2025
(2) Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity
American Economic Review, 113(9) pp. 2382-2410, September 2023
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(1) Management, Productivity, and Technology Choices: Evidence from U.S. Mining Schools
RAND Journal of Economics, 54(1), pp. 165-186 , March 2023
In Progress
Conduct in U.S. Labor Markets (with Bradley Setzler and Chen Yeh )
Monopsony and Backloaded Compensation: Theory and Evidence from Public Accountants (with Bernardo Silveira)