Inequality-Aware Market Design
Leveraging market behavior to inform and effect redistribution.
Research Articles
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Redistribution through Markets [with P. Dworczak (R) M. Akbarpour]Econometrica, 2021
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Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms [with M. Akbarpour (R) P. Dworczak]Journal of Political Economy, 2024
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A Price Theory of Price Gouging [with P. Dworczak]Working paper, 2025
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Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design [with P. Doligalski (R) P. Dworczak and M. Akbarpour]Working paper, 2025
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Optimal Membership Design [with P. Dworczak (R) M. Reuter (R) C. Lee]Working paper, 2025
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An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization [with M. Akbarpour (R) E. Budish (R) P. Dworczak]Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
Public Writing
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2020
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2020
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2018
Crypto and Web3
A new property rights layer for the Internet.
Books
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The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create [with S. Kaczynski]Portfolio/Penguin, 2024
Research Articles
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Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network [with M. Crystal and G. Goren]Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, forthcoming
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Incentive-Compatible Recovery from Manipulated Signals, with Applications to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure [with J. Milionis, J. Ernstberger, J. Bonneau, and T. Roughgarden]Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, forthcoming
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Shill-Proof Auctions [with A. Komo and T. Roughgarden]Working paper, 2025
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Defining Tokens [with M. Jennings and E. Lazzarin]a16z crypto, 2025
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Optimal Membership Design [with P. Dworczak (R) M. Reuter (R) C. Lee]Working paper, 2025
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NFTs as a Data-Rich Test Bed: Conspicuous Consumption and its Determinants [with T. Lundy, N. Raman, and K. Leyton-Brown]Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 2025
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How NFTs Create Value [with S. Kaczynski]Harvard Business Review [Online], 2021
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A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems [with J. Esber]Future, 2021
Public Writing
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Why Decentralized Crypto Platforms Are Weathering the Crash [with S. Bernstein]Harvard Business Review [Online], 2022
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Why Build in Web3 [with J. Esber]Harvard Business Review [Online], 2022
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Bitcoin and Beyond [with C. Catalini and R. Jagadeesan]Project Syndicate, 2021
Content Moderation
How to make moderation work.
Research Articles
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Robust Content Moderation: Theory and Applications [with J. M. Shapiro]NBER Working Paper, 2026
Public Writing
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It's Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media's Misinformation Problem [with J. M. Shapiro]The Atlantic, 2024
Generalized Matching
Matching markets in everything.
Surveys & Reviews
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The Theory of Matching with Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]Handbook of the Economics of Matching, 2025
Research Articles
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Strategy-Proofness, Investment Efficiency, and Marginal Returns: An Equivalence [with J. W. Hatfield and F. Kojima]European Economic Review [Nora Szech Memorial Issue], forthcoming
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Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement [with D. Delacrétaz and A. Teytelboym]American Economic Review, 2023
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Chain Stability in Trading Networks [with J. W. Hatfield, A. Nichifor, M. Ostrovsky, and A. Westkamp]Theoretical Economics, 2021
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Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms [with J. W. Hatfield and A. Westkamp]Review of Economic Studies, 2021
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Full Substitutability [with J. W. Hatfield, A. Nichifor, M. Ostrovsky, and A. Westkamp]Theoretical Economics, 2019
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Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston's Walk Zones [with U. Dur, P. A. Pathak, and T. Sönmez]Journal of Political Economy, 2018
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Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching [with J. W. Hatfield]Games and Economic Behavior [Special Issue in Honor of John O. Ledyard], 2017
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Matching with Slot-Specific Priorities: Theory [with T. Sönmez]Theoretical Economics, 2016
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Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks [with J. W. Hatfield, A. Nichifor, M. Ostrovsky, and A. Westkamp]Journal of Political Economy, 2013
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Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts [with J. W. Hatfield]American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2012
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Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts: Corrigendum [with J. W. Hatfield and R. Jagadeesan]American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020
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Vaccine Innovation and Pandemic Response
A robust response requires rapid innovation.
Research Articles
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Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply [with J. C. Castillo, A. Ahuja, S. Athey, A. Baker, E. Budish, T. Chipty, R. Glennerster, M. Kremer, G. Larson, J. Lee, C. Prendergast, C. M. Snyder, A. Tabarrok, B. J. Tan, and W. Więcek]Science, 2021
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An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization [with M. Akbarpour (R) E. Budish (R) P. Dworczak]Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
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Distributing a Billion Vaccines: COVAX Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities [with E. Budish, H. Kettler, E. Osland, C. Prendergast, and A. A. Torkelson]Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022
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Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability [with A. Ahuja, S. Athey, A. Baker, E. Budish, J. C. Castillo, R. Glennerster, M. Kremer, J. Lee, C. Prendergast, C. M. Snyder, A. Tabarrok, B. J. Tan, and W. Więcek]AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021
Surveys & Reviews
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Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Failure and Success [with A. Tabarrok]Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022
Public Writing
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We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID [with E. K. Choo]Scientific American, 2023
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2021
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America's Pharmacies Can Do a Lot More Vaccinations [with A. Tabarrok]Bloomberg Opinion, 2021
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2021
Marketplace Business
Marketplace strategy for builders.
Surveys & Reviews
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Harvard Business School Note, 2021
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Making Markets [with T. R. Eisenmann]Harvard Business School Note, 2018
Research Articles
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The Next Phase of the Data Economy: Economic & Technological Perspectives [with J. Esber, L. Kornfeld, S. Belsky, A. Chitnis, K. Chmielinski, J. A. Deighton, D. Eliot, C. A. A. Rossini, D. Searls, K. Shah, and R. Williams]Working paper, 2024
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What Makes an Online Marketplace Disruptive? [with C. Maxwell]Harvard Business Review [Online], 2021
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How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing? [with A. Wu]Harvard Business Review [Online], 2020
Number Theory
Some things are universal.
Research Articles
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, forthcoming
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Working paper, 2025
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Kyungpook Mathematical Journal, 2021
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Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes via Harmonic Weight Enumerators [with N. D. Elkies]Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 2019
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Minimal S-Universality Criteria May Vary in Size [with N. D. Elkies and D. M. Kane]Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 2013
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Weighted Generating Functions for Type II Lattices and Codes [with N. D. Elkies]Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms, 2013
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International Journal of Number Theory, 2009
Public Writing
Leonard Bernstein
A few Findings.
Research Articles
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Journal of the Society for American Music, 2009
Public Writing
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Bloomberg Opinion, 2018