About Me

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I am an applied economist specializing in labor and urban economics. My research examines how firm structure, competitive behavior, and industrial policy shape regional labor markets, the geography of innovation, and long-run patterns of economic inequality across U.S. cities and regions.

A central focus of my work is the economics of large firms and place-based policy. Governments at all levels increasingly deploy large subsidies to attract major employers, such as manufacturing plants, R&D facilities, and headquarters, as industrial policy for regional development. My research investigates whether these investments deliver on their promises: who actually gets the jobs created by large firm entry, where those workers come from, and how firms integrate new establishments into their existing organizational structures.

A parallel line of research examines the spatial organization of innovation. I study how firms allocate their inventive workforces across locations, and what forces, including rising housing costs and internal labor market frictions, constrain the diffusion of new technologies and contribute to the growing geographic concentration of innovative activity in a small number of U.S. cities.

Across both lines of work, I use restricted-access U.S. Census administrative microdata such as the Longitudinal Business Database, LEHD, Long Form Census, and the American Community Survey as a Special Sworn Status researcher with the U.S. Census Bureau. These data allow me to link firms to workers, workers to locations, and establishments to parent organizations at national scale, providing a uniquely granular view of how firm-level decisions aggregate into regional economic outcomes.

I am currently an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where I have taught courses in competitive strategy and managerial economics across undergraduate, graduate, and part-time programs. I earned my Ph.D. at Duke University, M.A. in economics from Boston University, and B.S. and B.A. degrees in finance, economics, and mathematics from Indiana University.