I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. 

I received my PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2025.

My research interests are in information design, industrial organization, digital economics and monotone comparative statics.

My wife Bec Tang is an amazing photographer.

CV: (link)

Working Papers:

The Limits of Differentiated Competition: (Paper) PRELIMINARY!

Startup Acquisitions and Innovation: with Chengsi Wang. (Paper) 

R&R at International Journal of Industrial Organization 

Introspective Information Design: revising; available upon request.

Organizational Culture, Discrimination and Transparency: with Richard Holden. (Paper)

Efficient Capital Acquisition Between Offer and Acceptance: with Keiichi Kawai. (Paper)

Allocating Scarce Information: with Richard Holden and Anup Malani. (Paper)

In progress:

Supermodular Value Functions: with Pawel Dziewulski and John Quah

Constrained Merger Policy Design: with Andrew Rhodes and Chengsi Wang

Robust Merger Policy and Innovation: with Nicolas Schutz and Chengsi Wang

Publications:

Targeted Persuasion: with Gabriele Gratton and D.J. Thornton. (Paper) NEW!

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming. 

Acquisition-induced Kill Zones: with Chengsi Wang and Dyuti Banerjee. (Paper) (Online Appendix) 

Management Science, 2026. (Older version with extended policy discussion: (Link))

Startup Acquisitions and Merger Policy: with Chengsi Wang. (Paper)

Journal of European Competition Law and Practice, 2026.

Strategic Limitation of Market Accessibility: Search Platform Design and Welfare: with Chengsi Wang and Makoto Watanabe. (Paper) (Online Appendix) 

Journal of Economic Theory, 2024.

Progressivity and Redistributive Effects of Income Taxes: Evidence from India: with Gaurav Datt and Ranjan Ray. (Paper) 

Empirical Economics, 2021.