Research Economist, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

I am a research economist in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. My research interests are in applied economic theory, particularly industrial organization, game theory, and mechanism design. I also have secondary interests in experimental economics and political economy.

My current work with Aaron Benanav develops a generalized framework for rational choice under value pluralism, replacing single-objective optimization with multi-objective evaluation. I am also interested in questions of overlapping ownership in oligopolistic markets and the design of coordination mechanisms under imperfect information.

My empirical work applies econometric methods to questions in the economics of crime and the political economy of critical mineral supply chains. Previously, I was a staff research associate for Robert Brenner at UCLA, where I conducted empirical research on long-run trends in profitability, capital accumulation, trade, and the rise of the financial sector across advanced and late-developing economies, with a particular focus on US, European, and East Asian industrial development.

I completed an MS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.