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 primary field of interest is Empirical Industrial Organization, with applications in Development Economics, Finance and Crime.
I am currently a co-organizer of the CEPR Virtual IO Seminar. You can register for future meetings here. I am also a co-organizer of the Econometrics Seminar at Tilburg.
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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 primary field of interest is Empirical Industrial Organization, with applications in Development Economics, Finance and Crime.
I am currently a co-organizer of the CEPR Virtual IO Seminar. You can register for future meetings here. I am also a co-organizer of the Econometrics Seminar at Tilburg.
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K504, Warandelaan 2, 5037AB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Publications
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The Effects of Policy Interventions to Limit Illegal Money Lending
(with Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Nicola Pavanini)
CEPR Discussion Paper DP16779.
Recently accepted at the Journal of Financial Economics. -
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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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.
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association.
Current Teaching (2023-2024)
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230333 Microeconomics 3 for Research Master in Economics (since 2018)
Course webpage here. -
230347 Advanced Microeconometrics for Research Master in Economics (since 2019)
Course webpage here. - 30J211 Statistics 2 for BSc in International Business Administration (since 2019)
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30J125 Programming and Quantitative Skills for BSc in International Business Administration (since 2023)
Online textbook here. - 35B208 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
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EC201 Intermediate Microeconomics, Boston University, 2016-2017.
Course webpage here. - 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
Current and Past PhD Students
- Tinghan Zhang (co-supervised with Tobias Klein).
- Hazal Sezer (co-supervised with Burak Uras; promoter: Daan van Soest).
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Xiaoyue Zhang (co-supervised with Jaap Abbring and Jeffrey Campbell).
Defended: September 22, 2023.
Dissertation: Distortions and industrial upgrading in China.
First placement: Postdoc at MIT Sloan before joining DIW Berlin, Germany. -
Michela Bonani (co-supervised with Florian Schuett; promoter: Tobias Klein).
Defended: June 9, 2023.
Dissertation: Essays on innovation, cooperation, and competition under standardization.
First placement: Postdoc at ESSEC Business School, Cergy, France.