I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCLA Anderson School of Management with research interests in the economics of innovation, venture capital, technology strategy, and health care.

My research agenda broadly explores the interaction between regulatory institutions and innovation decisions by established firms and startups. In particular, a recent paper studies the importance of “imperfect” or non-standard intellectual property rights on competition in the US pharmaceutical industry, and another paper explores how regulated entry into markets alters firms’ product portfolio choices. My work has been awarded the NBER-IFS Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Value of Medical Research and a National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation Research Grant.

I received my PhD in Managerial Science & Applied Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. I also hold an MS in Health Care Management from Wharton, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an AB in Economics (with honors) and International Relations from Brown University.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and as a Research Economist at Precision Health Economics, a health economics consulting firm based in Los Angeles.