I am a Financial Economist in the Money and Payments Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. My work focuses on understanding how network formation affects macroeconomic outcomes. I received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2019.

Disclaimer. The views expressed on this website are my own and do not indicate concurrence by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.

Working Papers

Moore’s Law and Economic Growth
(Previous Title: Combinatorial Growth and Physical Constraints: Evidence from Electronic Miniaturization)

Working Paper

Economics and Finance Publications

Endogenous Production Networks
Joint work with Daron Acemoglu
Econometrica, Volume 88: pp. 33-82, 2020

Prior-Independent Mechanisms via Prophet Inequalities with Limited Information
Joint work with Robert Kleinberg and S. Matthew Weinberg
Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 118: pp 511-532, 2019

Momentum, Mean-Reversion and Social-Media: Evidence from StockTwits and Twitter
Joint work with Shreyash Agrawal, Andrew Lo and Taranjit Singh
The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Portfolio Management, Volume 44: pp. 85-95, 2018

Computational Principal-Agent Problems
Joint work with Silvio Micali
Theoretical Economics, Volume 13: pp. 553–578, 2018

The Wisdom of Twitter Crowds: Predicting Stock Market Reactions to FOMC Meetings via Twitter Feeds
Joint work with Andrew Lo
The Journal of Portfolio Management, Volume 42 : pp. 123–134, 2016

Sentiment Analysis in Financial News
Undergraduate Thesis, 2009
BA, Harvard University

Legal Analytics Publications

Law is Code: A Software Engineering Approach to Analyzing the United States Code
Joint work with William Li, David Larochelle, Phil Hill and Andrew Lo
Journal of Business and Technology Law,  Volume 10, Number 5, 2015

Quantifying U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Using Authorship Attribution Techniques
Joint work with William Li, David Larochelle, Jay Cox, Robert Berwick and Andrew Lo
Stanford Technology Law Review, Volume 16, Number 3, 2013

Computer Science Publications

How to Incentivize Data-Driven Collaboration Among Competing Parties
Joint work with Shafi Goldwasser and Sunoo Park
7th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference (ITCS 2016)

Prophet Inequalities With Limited Information
Joint work with Robert Kleinberg and S. Matthew Weinberg
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2014)

The Query Complexity of Scoring Rules
Joint with Silvio Micali.
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, Volume 2 Issue 3, 2014

Super-Efficient Rational Proofs
Joint Work with Silvio Micali
14th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 2013)

Parametric Digital Auctions
Joint with Silvio Micali
4th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2013)

Optimal and Efficient Parametric Auctions
Joint with Costantinos Daskalakis, Silvio Micali and S. Matthew Weinberg
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2013)

Rational Proofs
Joint work with Silvio Micali.
44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2012)

Crowdsourced Bayesian Auctions.
Joint with Jing Chen and Silvio Micali.
3rd Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2012)