Articles

Economics of Digital Media Firms

with Ted Castronova

In this paper we explore the three most popular models of monetization in digital media: Premium, Free-to-Play, and Play-to-Earn. We provide equilibrium price and consumption in a industrial organization setting as well as insights about behavior in each model. 

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Mismatch in the Workplace

In this paper, I explore the so-called mismatch hypothesis in the context of US lawyers in their first 5-10 years out of law school. I use a triple DID approach in order to causally estimate the impact of affirmative action on marginal beneficiaries of the policy. I do not find concrete evidence in support or disagreement with the hypothesis, however, I find that beneficiaries of the policy have statistically insignificantly higher likelihoods of leaving the law profession and, for those in the middle of the skill distribution, lower likelihoods of being promoted within 5 years of their career.
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