I study IO and market design, with a primary focus on the health industry.

Working Papers

Private Equity Acquisition and the Supply of Organs: Evidence from Hospital Acquisitions in the United States (with Rocco Friebel, Kishore Iyer, Ryan McDevitt, Tessa McEniry, and Yashaswini Singh)

R&R at the Journal of Health Economics

Formal and Real Organ Allocation (with Yingni Guo)

Latest draft (First draft Feb 2026)

Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory 2026

A Flexible Measure of Resource Access: Pinpointing Physician Shortages (with Yuci Zhou)

Latest draft (First draft Nov 2025)

ASHEcon 2025, BFI Health Econ Initiative 2026, NBER Geography and Health 2026

Publications

Contemporary Patterns in Out-of-Sequence Liver Allocation. American Journal of Transplantation 2026 (with Jacqueline Henson, Ryan McDevitt, Norine Chan, Andrew Barbas, Lindsay King, Andrew Muir, Debra Sudan, Stuart Knechtle, and Lisa McElroy)

Financial Ties, Market Structure, Commercial Prices, and Medical Director Compensation in Dialysis. JAMA Health Forum 2025 (with Wanrong Deng,  Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan McDevitt, Jimmy Roberts, and Heather Wong)

2025 ASHEcon Program Chair Award: Competition in Health Care Markets

Coverage: CBS News (article, TV, a message my coauthor's mom got from her friend), Managed Healthcare Executive, Healio, Physician's Weekly

Trends in Medical Debt During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum 2022 (with Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin)

Coverage: Chicago Booth Review

Work in Progress

Market Design with Intermediaries: Evidence from US Liver Transplants 

Job market paper. Draft coming soon

Profit Sharing and Patient Steering: Foreclosure from Vertical Ties in Dialysis (with Paul Eliason, Ryan McDevitt, and Jimmy Roberts)

Draft coming soon

Other Works

Bounds on the Ricci curvature and solutions to the Einstein equations for weighted graphs. arXiv 2020 (with An Huang, Bogdan Stoica, and Xiao Zhong; mathematical physics)

Miscellany

For Stata and Beyond: A Pretty Harmless Guide to Doing Research with Stata (prepared for my Ph.D. Stata course at Duke)

Health Data Summary (prepared for the Duke IO group)