I am an assistant professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research at Tilburg University. I received my PhD in Economics from Boston University.
I am a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in the Industrial Organization and Development Economics groups. I am also an affiliate member of the Financial Inclusion Through INteroperability (FIT IN) Initiative at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
My fields of interest are Empirical Industrial Organization, Development Economics, and the Economics of Crime.
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K504, Warandelaan 2, 5037AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
I am a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in the Industrial Organization and Development Economics groups. I am also an affiliate member of the Financial Inclusion Through INteroperability (FIT IN) Initiative at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
My fields of interest are Empirical Industrial Organization, Development Economics, and the Economics of Crime.
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K504, Warandelaan 2, 5037AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Publications
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Law Enforcement and Bargaining Over Illicit Drug Prices: Structural Evidence from a Gang's Ledger
(with Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Marc Rysman)
Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 20, Issue 3, June 2022, Pages 1198–1230.
Working paper version here.
Working Papers
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Social Impacts of New Radio Markets in Ghana: A Dynamic Structural Analysis
Revise & Resubmit, RAND Journal of Economics.
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The Effects of Law Enforcement in the Illegal Money Lending Market
(with Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Nicola Pavanini)
CEPR Discussion Paper DP16779. -
Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit
(with Marc Rysman and Robert M. Townsend)
CEPR Discussion Paper DP17869.
PhD Students
- Michela Bonani (joint with Florian Schuett) - first placement: ESSEC Business School (post-doc)
- Xiaoyue Zhang (joint with Jaap Abbring and Jeffrey Campbell) - first placement: MIT Sloan postdoc before joining DIW Berlin
- Hazal Sezer (joint with David Schindler)
- Tinghan Zhang (joint with Tobias Klein)
Current Teaching (2022-2023)
- 230333 Microeconomics 3 for Research Master in Economics (since 2018)
- 230347 Advanced Microeconometrics for Research Master in Economics (since 2019)
- 30J211 Statistics 2 for BSc in International Business Administration (since 2019)
- 35B208 Modeling In Practice/Improving Society Lab for BSc in Econometrics and Operations Research (since 2019)
- 390302 Thesis Supervisor for MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (since 2019)
- 300TET Thesis Supervisor for BSc in Econometrics and Operations Research (since 2019)
Previous Teaching
- 300831 Thesis Supervisor for Research Master in Economics, Tilburg University, 2019-2023
- EC201 Intermediate Microeconomics, Boston University, 2016-2017
- Teaching Fellow for EC101 Introductory Microeconomic Analysis, Boston University, 2013-2015
- Teaching Assistant for EC1030 Mathematics and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Fall 2011-Spring 2012