Academic Research

• The New Age of Collusion? An Empirical Study into Airbnb’s Pricing Dynamics: Exploring how algorithmic pricing on Airbnb influences host strategies. Using ML methods to cluster hosts combined with Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design (FRDD), I analyze the causal effects of these tools on coordinated pricing. This informs my consulting work with legal practitioners regarding antitrust claims.
• Can Community Funding Replace Intellectual Property?: Using a repeated game-theoretic framework to examine whether platforms like Patreon can act as substitutes for traditional IP laws.