Wrapped up my grad program in December 2022 with a thesis on The Impact of the 2018 Wine Tariffs on domestic wine.
Research topics I'm interested in:
- The impact of policy changes on social welfare
- Specifically, tariffs and international trade, on prices and production
- Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
- Currently studying Matthew Jackson's Social and Economic Networks textbook
- Using it for research with Dr. Michail Fragkias in urban science creation using NetworkX
- Anything in my daily life that I can try to model and refine
- Why is data so freaking difficult to obtain for most the questions we care about?
- And how the heck can we weed out causal effects?
- Recently wrapped up research using structural causal models (specifically ANMs) in the economic development of the Pearl River Delta Region of China with Fragkias
- Messy data isn't new; econometricians have been identifying workarounds for awhile
- See: "Data and Econometricians—The Uneasy Alliance" by Zvi Griliches (1985)
- Currently researching the relationship between patents and GMP with Fragkias and Joshaghani
- And how the heck can we weed out causal effects?
Some methods I enjoy:
- Time Series (ARIMA, VAR, State Space)
- Gravity Models
- k-NN, Clustering, various classification techniques
- Causal Inference: 2SLS, DID, IV, SCM (Judea Pearl & Jonas Peters)
- Shout out to Angrist & Pischke's Mostly Harmless Econometrics
If you're interested in chatting or collaborating on a project, feel free to email me at [email protected].
Thanks for stopping by!