EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor (Lecturer), 2022 -
UCL School of Management, London, UK
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Lecturer, 2022
Imperial College London, London, UK
Assistant Professor (Junior Chair), 2017 - 2022
Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Toulouse School of Economics Associate Researcher 2022 -
CEPR Research Affiliate, 2021-
CESifo Research Network Affiliate, 2019-
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, 2012-2017
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Committee: Victor Aguirregabiria (chair), Avi Goldfarb, Heski Bar-Isaac
M.Sc. in Economics, 2008-2009
London School of Economics, London, UK
B.Soc.Sc. in Economics (summa cum laude), 2004-2008
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary: Quant Marketing / Empirical Industrial Organization (firm competition, market regulation, online markets, influencers)
Secondary: Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics
WORKING PAPERS
"Learned Complementarity"
with Adam N. Smith & Max Pachali
“Interaction of Spectrum Auctions and Mobile Market Competition: Review of Theory and Evidence from European 4G Auctions” (2024) Revised & Resubmitted IJIO
with David Salant
“Competing with Superstars in the Mobile App Market" (2022)
NET Institute Working Paper 18-02
“Estimating the Effects of Deregulation in the Ontario Wine Retail Market” (2016)
with Victor Aguirregabiria and Junichi Suzuki
ACCEPTED / FORTHCOMING
“How Much Influencer Marketing is Undisclosed? Evidence from Twitter” (2024) Accepted Marketing Science
with Yanting He and Stephan Seiler
"Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter" (2024) Accepted Economic Journal
with Juan S. Morales
"The Effects of Advertising Disclosure Regulations on Social Media: Evidence from Instagram" (2023) Accepted RAND
with Matthew Mitchell
Extended abstract published in proceedings of ACM-EC 2020
“Estimating Complementarity with Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers” (2023) Accepted RAND
with Scott Orr, Jean-William P. Laliberté and Mathieu Marcoux
PUBLICATIONS
"Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market" (with Stephanie Assad, Robert Clark and Lei Xu), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 132(3), pp.723-771, 2024. (lead article)
“Variety-Based Congestion in Online Markets: Evidence from Mobile Apps”, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 16(2), pp.180-203, 2024.
“Autonomous Algorithmic Collusion: Economic Research and Policy Implications” (with S. Assad, E. Calvano, G. Calzolari, R. Clark, V. Denicolo, J. Johnson, S. Pastorello, A. Rhodes, L. Xu and M. Wildenbeest), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 37(3), pp.459-478, 2021.
“Market Incentives for Business Innovation: Results from Canada” (with C. Bérubé and M. Duhamel), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Vol. 12(1), pp.47-65, 2012.
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Managing Algorithm Development among Third Party Contractors"
with Elizabeth Lyons
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, INVITED WORKSHOPS
CESifo Distinguished Affiliate Award, 2019
NET Institute Summer Grant, NYU, 2018
Hartle Award, University of Toronto, 2018
Summer Institute for Field Experiments, University of Chicago, 2017
NBER Digitization PhD Workshop, Stanford University, 2015-2017
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2015-2017
CRESSE Fellowship in Competition Policy, 2015
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC, 2012-2015
Highest degree GPA in Economics, University of Ottawa, 2008
Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, University of Ottawa, 2004-2008
EXPERIENCE
Instructor, University College London (London, UK) 2023-
International Strategy (Undergraduate)
Instructor, Imperial College London Business School (London, UK), 2022
PhD Course on Algorithms and Econometrics
Instructor, Toulouse School of Economics (Toulouse, France), 2018-2021
Topics in Applied Industrial Organization (M2 Course)
Economics of the Internet (M2 Course)
Digital Economics (M2 Course)
Empirical Industrial Organization (PhD Course)
Instructor, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), 2016
Empirical Industrial Organization (Undergraduate)
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), 2012-2017
Undergraduate and MBA courses
Research Assistant, University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), 2013-2014
Mitchell Hoffman (Rotman School of Management)
Avi Goldfarb (Rotman School of Management)
Economist, Government of Canada (Ottawa, ON), 2009-2012
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2025
UCLA
2024
CMA, Yelp, Frontier, Oxford, Copenhagen
2023
LSE, Keystone, Amazon, City, University of London Workshop on Competition and Regulation in Digital Markets, CEPR Workshop on Digital Mergers, DigiEcon Day Cambridge, Israeli IO Day (cancelled)
2022
Indian School of Business, DigEcon Workshop at Norwich, ENSAI Economic Days, FCC
2021
CEPR Virtual IO Seminar, Bocconi, Virtual Quant Marketing Seminar, Padova, Chicago Booth Marketing, Stanford, UCLA Anderson Marketing, Stockholm School of Economics, Imperial College Marketing, EARIE, QME, Bank of Colombia, Cambridge-Judge, UCL School of Management, Queen's Smith, eQMS, APIOC
2020
University of East Anglia, LSE (postponed), University of Bologna, IO^2, Oxford Workshop on Consumer Search and Digital Platforms (cancelled), ACM-EC, NBER Economics of AI, TSE Digital Workshop, Telecom Paris, Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management, CESifo Economics of Digitization Conference, University of Amsterdam conference on Algorithmic Collusion, FTC
2019
TSE Digital Economics Conference, Imperial College, TSE Food Economics Conference, MaCCI Summer Institute, CESifo Economics of Digitization Conference, Israeli IO Day
2018
CEMFI, TSE Digital Workshop, CSIO-IDEI Workshop, Canadian Economics Association, Université de Montréal, BECCLE Competition Policy Conference, TSE Food Economics Workshop, Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Digital Economics Workshop, UCL School of Management, CREST/ECODEC Workshop, Telecom Paris, NET Institute Conference
2017
TSE, Sciences Po, Tilburg, Ryerson, Bank of Canada, IIOC, 8th Annual Consumer Search and Switching Costs Workshop, 8th Annual Searle Internet Commerce Conference, University of Toronto, CRESSE, EARIE, Jornadas de Economia Industrial, Trento, Mannheim
2016
Canadian Economics Association, Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, KU Leuven, University of Toronto, Jornadas de Economia Industrial, EARIE
2015
Canadian Economics Association, University of Toronto
REFEREEING
Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quantitative Marketing & Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, The Economic Journal, Management Science, Marketing Science, RAND, AEJ: Micro, AEJ:EP, European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Economic Review, Economic Letters, Economic Inquiry, Economic Issues
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-organizer of Virtual Digital Economy Seminar: 2020-
Co-organizer of CEPR Virtual IO Seminar Series: 2020
Co-organizer of TSE Digital Workshop: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21
Co-organizer of TSE Digital Economics Conference: 2019-2022
TSE Placement Committee 2019/20, 2020/21
SKILLS
Statistical Software:
STATA, MATLAB, EViews
Programming:
Python, Visual Basic
Other:
QGIS, LaTeX
Languages:
English, Russian (fluent), Hebrew (fluent),
French (intermediate), Spanish (v. basic)
Cooking:
Curry, marinara, borscht