Research

Playing to the Algorithm: How Spotify’s Recommendations Shape Music Production

In Progress,

This paper models how recommender systems on streaming platforms (e.g., Spotify) affect the characteristics of music record labels choose to release.

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Distributing the Windfall from Transformative Technologies (with Anton Korinek)

In Progress,

This paper analyzes how an actor developing a transformative technology can best distribute the resulting windfall in order to benefit humanity at large.

Costs, Discount Factors, and Coordination in the Airline Industry (with Federico Ciliberto and Alon Eizenberg)

In Progress,

This paper proposes an empirical framework to set-identify competitive conduct in a cross-section of airline markets.

Demand Estimation for Novice Art on Digital Platforms (with Ishita Chakraborty and Sharmistha Sikdar)

In Progress,

This paper uses a structural estimation of the demand for novice art to understand causal factors for such demand on digital platforms like Etsy.

Media Bias and Business Models (with Jenna Blochowicz)

In Progress,

This paper examines how differences in business models affects the partisan bias of media companies.