Hailing from Bratislava, Slovakia, I have spent much of my adult life abroad. I finished high school in Canada, obtained my B.A. at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, did an exchange at Keble College at the University at Oxford, and received my PhD at École Polytechnique - CREST  in France. 

I enjoy applied work and have broad research interests. I spent a large portion of my last two years of Ph.D. devising and applying methods to best estimate risk and time preferences and to then map them onto psychological personality traits. I find this work fascinating both because it requires mastering and using state of the art econometrics and because it touches on the very foundations of how individuals make decisions. At the same time, I have been working with QuantCube, a Parisian artificial intelligence startup, to build a large proprietary data set containing the full review history as well as price and rank information since 2015 for over 30 different product categories sold on Amazon.  Given the vast amount of data at my disposal, I was able to implement a series of innovative reduced-form econometric analyses to identify a causal link between consumer reviews and smartphone sales. I find this project a particularly good complement to my structural work as it led me to acquire a whole different set of research skills. Finally, I have more complete papers (one already published) in trade and labor which I began prior to commencing my Ph.D.

My private sector experience involves working for two years for Cornerstone Research, an economic consultancy in Boston, MA. As an analyst, I worked on a wide range of cases in finance, company valuation, and intellectual property. I have also interned at MAPP in France where I worked on the Lafarge-Holcim merger and analyzed the nature of competition in the European cement industry. Currently I am collaborating with QuantCube in Paris to identify the impact of consumer reviews on sales.

In my free time I enjoy skiing, ice hockey, and horseback riding.