Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Merton College, University of Oxford

## Research

My research interests are primarily in population dynamics, social and economic networks, statistical size distributions, and inequality.

### Papers

Hotelling competition and the gamma distribution
Games and Economic Behavior 2018 [article, code] In any symmetric equilibrium of the pure location game, as the number of firms becomes large, the market share distribution converges to a Gamma(2,2) distribution. The result holds regardless of the distribution of consumers.

Social groups and social network formation with Alex Teytelboym
Games and Economic Behavior 2017 [article, code, appendix] Dynamic network formation model on a fixed number of nodes and overlapping social groups. Homophily can be non-monotonic over time.

Counterfactuals in “agreeing to disagree”
Mathematical Social Sciences 2016 [article] Giving the Sure-Thing Principle a counterfactual interpretation resolves issues with the original “agreeing to disagree” result.

### In progress

Targeted carbon tax reforms with Maia King and Alex Teytelboym
Conditionally accepted [draft]

Intergenerational aspirations, capital dilution, and the dynamics of inequality with Francis Dennig
Working paper [draft]

## Teaching

DPhil University of Oxford 2014, supervisor: John Quah, examiners: Alan Kirman and Péter Eső
MPhil University of Oxford 2009

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