If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein

Working papers

1. A collusion-proof dynamic mechanism (with Endre Csóka, Alex Rodivilov and Heng Liu), 2023
2. Efficient combinatorial assignment (with Thành Nguyen and Shai Vardi), 2023
3. Equilibrium in pseudomarkets (with Thành Nguyen)
4. Approximate combinatorial auctions with budgets (with Thành Nguyen)
5. The computational complexity of the housing market (with Edwin Lock and Zephyr Qiu)
6. Matching and Prices (with Ravi Jagadeesan), 2023
   • Extended abstract at EC’21.
7. EPIC fail: How below-bid pricing backfires in multiunit auctions (with Sanna Laksa and Daniel Marszalec), invited to resubmit,  2020.
8. On Consumer Theory with Indivisible Goods (with Elizabeth Baldwin, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Paul Klemperer), 2021.
9. Trading networks with bilateral contracts (with Tamas Fleiner, Zsuzsanna Janko, and Akihisa Tamura), 2018.
   • Extended abstract at WINE’18.
10. A simple model of cascades in networks (with Yongwhan Lim and Asuman Ozdaglar, 2016.

Selected published and forthcoming papers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett

1. Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement (with Narges Ahani, Paul Gölz, Ariel D. Procaccia, and Andrew C. Trapp), forthcoming at Operations Research.
   • Extended abstract at EC’21.
   • Research Highlight at the Communications of the ACM (Daniel Freund‘s Technical Perspective)
2. An adaptive targeted field experiment: Job search assistance for refugees in Jordan (with Stefano Caria, Simon Quinn, Max Kasy, Grant Gordon, and Soha Osman), Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(2): 781–836, 2024.
   • RCT pre-registration: AEA RCT Registry.
3. Matching mechanisms for refugee resettlement (with David Delacretaz and Scott Duke Kominers), American Economic Review, 113(10): 2689-2717, 2023.
   • Coverage: Financial Times.
   • Older version: Refugee resettlement
4. Contagion in graphons (with Selman Erol and Francesca Parise), Journal of Economic Theory, 211, 105673, 2023
   • Extended abstract in EC’20.
5. The equilibrium existence duality (with Elizabeth Baldwin, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Paul Klemperer),  Journal of Political Economy, 131(6): 1440-1476, 2023.
   • Extended abstract at EC’20.
6. Complexity of stability in trading networks (with Tamas Fleiner, Zsuzsanna Janko, and Ildiko Schlotter), International Journal of Game Theory, 52:629-648, 2023.
7. Matching with semi-bandits (with Max Kasy), Econometrics Journal, 26(1), pp. 45-66, 2023.
   • A non-archival version at EEAMO’21.
   • Max’s beautiful replication code.
8. Placement optimization in refugee resettlement (with Narges Ahani,  Tommy Andersson, Alessandro Martinello, and Andrew C. Trapp), Operations Research, 69(5): 1468-1486, 2021.
   • Check out our Refugees.AI project.
   • Coverage: The Atlantic; Financial Times.
   • Annie® MOORE was runner-up in the 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards (Policy Engagement category).
9. Stability in matching markets with complex constraints (with Hai Nguyen and Thanh Nguyen), Management Science, 67(12): 7291-7950, 2021.
   • Extended abstract at EC’19.
10. Economic complexity and the green economy (with Penny Mealy), Research Policy, 2020.
    • See our interactive Green Transitions Navigator for more analysis.
11. Trading networks with frictions (with Tamas Fleiner, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Zsuzsanna Janko), Econometrica, 87(5): 1633-1661, 2019.
    • Online appendix.
    • Extended abstract at EC’18.
12. Targeted carbon tax reforms (with Maia King and Bassel Tarbush), European Economic Review, 119: 526-547, 2019.
13. Interpreting economic complexity (with Penny Mealy and J. Doyne Farmer), Science Advances, 5(1):eaau1705, 2019.
14. Social groups and social network formation (with Bassel Tarbush), Games and Economic Behavior, 103: 286-312, 2017.
15. Gross substitutes and complements: A simple generalization, Economics Letters, 123(2): 135-138, 2014.

Full-length peer-reviewed conference papers

1. “Optimizing Sponsored Humanitarian Parole” (with Fatemeh Farajzadeh, Ryan Killea, and Andrew Trapp), EAAMO’23, 3^rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, 2023.
2. Matching markets with contracts for electric vehicle smart charging (with Thomas Morstyn and Malcolm McCullogh), IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2018. (One of Best Papers on Power System Planning, Operation, and Electricity Markets).
3. Competitive rumour spread in social networks (with Yongwhan Lim and Asuman Ozdaglar), ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 44(3): 7-14, 2016.
4. Homophily in online social networks (with Bassel Tarbush), WINE’12, Conference on Web and Internet Economics, 2012.

Publications in other disciplines

Data Science

1. Identifying key players in dark web marketplaces through Bitcoin transaction networks, (with Elohim Fonseca dos Reis, Abeer ElBahrawy, Ignacio De Loizaga, and Andrea Baronchelli), Nature Scientific Reports, 14, 2385, 2024.
2. Macroscopic properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces (with Alberto Bracci, Jörn Boehnke, Abeer ElBahrawy, Nicola Perra, and Andrea Baronchelli), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Nexus), 1(4), pgac201, 2022.
3. Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces (with Matthieu Nadini, Alberto Bracci, Abeer ElBahrawy, Philip Gradwell, and Andrea Baronchelli), Nature Scientific Reports, 12:5425, 2022.
4. Dark web marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine (with Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Damon McCoy, Ian Gray, Angela Gallo, and Andrea Baronchelli), European Physical Journal: Data Science, 10(6), 2021.
   • Check out our DarkMarkets.Live project.
   • Coverage: Daily Mail.
5. Collective dynamics of dark web marketplaces (with Abeer ElBahrawy, Laura Alessandretti, Leonid Rusnac, Daniel Goldsmith, and Andrea Baronchelli),  Nature Scientific Reports, 10:18827, 2020.
   • Check out our DarkMarkets.Live project.

Electrical engineering

1. Integrating P2P energy trading with probabilistic distribution locational marginal pricing (with Thomas Morstyn, Cameron Hepburn, and Malcolm McCullogh), IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 11(4): 3095-3106, 2020.
2. Designing decentralized markets for distribution system flexibility (with Thomas Morstyn and Malcolm McCullogh), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 34(3): 2128-2139, 2019.
3. Bilateral contract networks for peer-to-peer energy trading (with Thomas Morstyn and Malcolm McCullogh), IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 10(2):2026-2035, 2019.

Refugee studies

1. The Local Refugee Match: Aligning refugees’ preferences with the capacities and priorities of localities (with Will Jones), Journal of Refugee Studies, 2017.
   • Coverage: Financial Times; Washington Post.
2. Matching systems for refugees (with Will Jones), Journal of Migration and Human Security, 5(3): 666-680, 2017.
3. The International Refugee Match: A system that respects refugees’ preferences and the priorities of states (with Will Jones), Refugees Survey Quarterly, 36(2): 84–109, 2017.
   • Coverage: New York Times.
4. Choices, preferences and priorities in a matching system for refugees (with Will Jones), Forced Migration Review, 51: 80-82, 2016.

Reviews, book chapters, and permanent working papers

1. “Generalized Matching: Contracts and Networks” (with Ravi Jagadeesan, John Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alex Westkamp) in Echenique F., Immorlica, N. and V. Varizani (eds.), Online and Matching-based Market Design, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
2. “Improving refugee resettlement: insights from market design” (with Justin Hadad), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 38(3), 434–448, 2022.
3. Central bank digital currencies risk becoming a digital Leviathan (with Andrea Baronchelli and Hanna Halaburda), Nature Human Behaviour, 6: 907–909, 2022.
   • Coverage in Le Monde.
4. Discovering auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson (with Shengwu Li ⓡ Scott Duke Kominers ⓡ Mohammad Akbarpour ⓡ Piotr Dworczak), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123(3): 709–750.
5. The parable of the auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom’s Discovering Prices (with Scott Duke Kominers), Journal of Economic Literature, 58(4), 2020.
   • Publisher’s page for the book
6. Adaptive targeted infectious disease testing (with Max Kasy), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36(S1): S77–S93, 2020.
   • Economics Observatory article about testing capacity allocation with Andrea Galeotti and Max Kasy.
7. Is natural capital really substitutable? (with François Cohen and Cameron Hepburn), Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 44(1): 425-448, 2019.
   • TL;DR: No.
8. Networks and economic policy (with Matt Elliott and Sanjeev Goyal), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 35(4): 565–585, 2019.
   • Special issue on the economics of networks
9. Steering the climate system: an extended comment (with Linus Mattauch, Richard Millar, Frederick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai, Anselm Schultes, Frank Venmans et al.), Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 347 and Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 315, 2019.
10. Natural capital market design, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 35(1): 138-161, 2019.
11. Green growth (with Cameron Hepburn and Alex Pfeiffer), The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik), Chapter 40, 2018.
12. An invitation to market design (with Scott Duke Kominers and Vincent P. Crawford), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 33(4): 541-571, 2017.
    • Special issue on market design
13. Climate change policy after Brexit (with Cameron Hepburn), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 33(S1): S144–S154, 2017.
14. Reforming the EU ETS – Where are we now? (with Cameron Hepburn), Energy Tax and Regulatory Policy in Europe: Reform Priorities (edited by Ian Parry, Karen Pittel, and Herman Vollebergh), Chapter 1, The MIT Press, 2017.
15. The third wave in the economics of climate change (with J. Doyne Farmer, Cameron Hepburn and Penny Mealy), Environment and Resource Economics, 62(2): 1-29, 2015.
16. Innovation, path dependence and climate policy (with Philippe Aghion, Cameron Hepburn and Dimitri Zenghelis), Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Policy Paper, 2014.
17. Resilient and inclusive prosperity within planetary boundaries (with Eric Beinhocker, J. Doyne Farmer and Cameron Hepburn), China & World Economy, 22(5): 1-16, 2014.
18. Political economy of climate change policy (with Franklin Steves), Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment Working Paper 13-02, 2013.
19. Part II: Policy instruments for sustainable road transport (with Georgina Santos and Hannah Behrendt), Research in Transportation Economics, 28(1): 46-91, 2010.
20. Part I: Externalities and economic policies in road transport (with Georgina Santos, Hannah Behrendt, Laura Maconi and Tara Shirvani), Research in Transportation Economics, 28(1): 2-45, 2010.

Edited book in progress

• Fair by Design: Economic Design Approaches to Inequality (with Scott Duke Kominers), Oxford University Press (based on HCEO Market Design Perspectives on Inequality conference)

Policy reports

1. The Wealth of Nature: Increasing National Wealth and Reducing Risk by Measuring and Managing Natural Capital (with Francois Cohen, Kirk Hamilton, Cameron Hepburn, and Frank Sperling), Report for the Green Economy Coalition, 2017.
2. Special Report on Climate Change: The Low Carbon Transition, Chapter 4 (with Franklin Steves and Daniel Treisman), Report for the EBRD, June 2011.
3. Life in Transition: After the Crisis (with Franklin Steves), Chapter 4, Report for the EBRD, April 2011.

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