Employment
2022 – Present: Associate Professor, University of York
2018 – 2022: Assistant Professor, University of York
Fall 2016: Visiting Research Fellow, UC Berkeley
2013 – 2018: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Bonn
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Toronto, 2013
MSc., Economics, University of Bonn, 2007
Publications
Innovation Through Competitive Experimentation, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2024
Relational Enforcement (with Jan Koepfle), Theoretical Economics, 2025
Strategic Investment and Learning with Private Information (with Nicolas Klein), Journal of Economic Theory, 2022
Seller Experimentation and Trade, Review of Economic Design, 2022
Who Goes First? Strategic Delay under Information Asymmetry, Theoretical Economics, 2018
Unmediated Communication with Partially Verifiable Types, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011
Current Research
Oligopolistic Information Markets (with Roland Strausz), 2025
Buyer Verification and Endogenous Quality (with Willy Lefez), 2026
A Theory of Auditor Selection (with Deniz Kattwinkel, Jan Knoepfle and Alexa Scherf), 2026
The Tension Between Trust and Oversight in Long Term Relations (with Jan Knoepfle), 2025, R&R at Management Science
Endorsements and Referrals: Product Recommendations in Bilateral Trade (with Bojia Li and Lily Yang), 2025
Flexible Learning via Noise Reduction (with Kemal Özbek), 2025
The Verification Bottleneck, 2026
Workplace Interactions, Trust and Decision-Making in Organizations, Work in progress
Recent Taks
2025: Annual Conference of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI); SAET Annual Meeting (Ischia); York-Durham-Edinburgh Theory Workshop (Edinburgh); session organizer at the SAET Conference, Ischia, on “New Perspectives on Costly Learning”; University of Duisburg-Essen (invited); Lancaster University (invited).
2024: European Workshop in Economic Theory (Manchester); Conference for Mechanism and Institution Design (CMID), Budapest; BSE Summer Forum; York-Durham-Edinburgh Theory Workshop; University of Barcelona (invited).
2023: European Workshop in Economic Theory (Naples); Durham Economic Theory Workshop; Stony Brook Game Theory Conference; European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Manchester); Conference for Mechanism and Institution Design (CMID); Symposium in Honor of Sven Rady, Bonn (invited); University of Copenhagen (invited).
Teaching
Advanced Microeconomics (MSc), University of York, 2023
Game Theory, University of York, 2019 – Present
Intermediate Microeconomics, University of York, 2019 – Present
Industrial Organization, University of York, 2018 – 2023
Dynamic Methods for Economists, University of Bonn, 2016 – 2017
Advanced Microeconomic Theory, University of Toronto, 2009 – 2011
Refereeing
Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, Bulletin of Economic Research, Journal of Public Economic Theory
Grants and Awards
Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2025 (£26,121)
University Research Priming Fund, 2023, (£2,500)
HCM Research Fellowship, Fall 2016
Doctoral Completion Award, 2012
University of Toronto Fellowship, 2007–2011