Accepted papers and working drafts from the lab.

Adrasteia: AI Agent Workflow for Economic Paper Writing

Adrasteia presents a human-in-the-loop AI agent workflow for economic paper writing, spanning assumption search, model structuring, argument revision, and referee-style critique.

Smart Contracts, Dumb Money: Open Source Lemons

The project examines information quality, adverse selection, and investor behavior in open-source smart-contract environments and digital asset markets.

Smoothing the Cliff: Fair and Incentive-Compatible Priority Allocation via Randomized Mechanisms

This paper studies randomized allocation mechanisms designed to smooth cliff effects while preserving fairness and incentive compatibility in priority-based environments.

A Blessing in Disguise? DeFi Exploits and Short-Horizon Responses in U.S. Commercial Paper Spreads

DeFi exploits generate short-run spillovers into traditional financial markets via money market fund reallocations, creating a measurable cross-market transmission channel.

The Private Enforcer: Algorithmic Deterrence and the Shadow Tax on Insider Trading

In DeFi markets, MEV acts as a private enforcement mechanism that penalizes informed trading and creates a shadow tax on strategic trading behavior.

Carbon vs. Silicon: Can AI Outperform Top-Tier Economists in Scientific Knowledge Production?

An AI-and-economics project examining whether advanced AI systems can match or outperform top-tier economists in originality, technical rigor, and heuristic value.

Connection Is All You Need? Pedigree, Placement, and Publication in Elite Academic Markets

An ongoing project on how pedigree, placement, and network connections shape publication outcomes in elite academic markets.

Advisor: Panle Jia Barwick (University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER)

Killer Referees: Competition, Signaling, and Editorial Assignment

An in-progress study of editorial assignment, referee competition, and signaling dynamics in top academic journal review processes.