Publications
Current CV [Fall 2026]
Publications
The Strong Maximum Circulation Algorithm: A new method for aggregating preference rankings.
With Nathan Atkinson, Dorit Hochbaum, and James B. Orlin. 2025. INFORMS Journal on Optimization 7(2): 142-155.
Subcoalition Cluster Analysis: A new method for modeling conflict in organizations.
With Daniel Schiff. 2025. Management Science 71(9): 7948-7969.
Robust Electoral Competition: Rethinking Electoral Systems to Encourage Representative Outcomes.
With Nathan Atkinson. 2024. Maryland Law Review 84(1): 102-142.
Beyond the Spoiler Effect: Can Ranked Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization?
With Nathan Atkinson and Edward Foley. 2024. University of Illinois Law Review 2024(5): 1655-1698.
A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage.
With Kieran Allsop. 2024. Journal of Sports Economics 25(1): 30-53.
Conflict, Chaos, and the Art of Institutional Design.
2024. Organization Science 35(1): 138-158.
Socioeconomic Vulnerability and the Duration of Storm-caused Power Outages.
With Chenghao Duan and Chuanyi Ji. 2023. PNAS Nexus 2(10): pgad295.
Adaptive Rationality, Garbage Cans, and the Policy Process.
2021. In: Carnegie Goes To California: Advancing and Celebrating the Work of James G. March, Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 76: 79-96.
Hyperopic Search: Organizations learning about managers learning about strategies.
2020. Organization Science 31(4): 821-838.
With Sarah Soule. 2019. Environmental Politics 28(4): 685-706.
Ignorant Decision Making and Educated Inertia: Some political pathologies of organizational learning.
2018. Organization Science 29(1): 39-57.
Working Papers / In Progress
Structured Attention as an Organizational Truce.
with Nathan Atkinson.
with Chengwei Liu.
Policy Reports and Op-eds
SVB Failed—and So Did the Feds.
2023. The Dispatch.
The Flaw in Ranked-choice Voting: rewarding extremists.
With Nathan Atkinson. 2022. The Hill.
Real-world Assessments of COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy.
With Kieran Allsop and James C. Capretta. 2021. AEI Economic Perspectives.
After This Weird NBA Season, We Have A Better Idea Of How Much Fans Matter.
2021. FiveThirtyEight.
Modeling Protection from COVID-19 Based on Vaccine Supply and Administration Rates.
With Kieran Allsop and James C. Capretta. 2021. AEI Economic Perspectives.
Awaiting the Signal: Assessing the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
With James C. Capretta. 2020. AEI Economic Perspectives.
The Economic Cost and Spatial Diffusion of the Opioid Crisis, 2009-2018.
With Alex Brill. 2020. AEI Economic Perspectives.
Progressivity, Redistribution, and Inequality.
With Alex Brill. 2020. National Affairs.
A History Lesson on Ramping Up Production of Critical Goods.
2020. The Dispatch.
With Sarah Soule. 2019. Legbranch.org.
Will Homebuilding Finally Evolve? Lessons from the American experience with factory-built housing.
With Lynn Fisher. 2019. AEI Economic Perspectives.
The Partisan Divide Over the Carbon Tax is All Smoke.
With Alex Brill. 2018. RealClearPolicy.
With Jordan Brower. 2017. Critical Inquiry.
Carbon Leakage: Making the best of a second-best policy.
2009. Tax Notes.
The X Tax: The Progressive Consumption Tax America Needs?
With Alan Viard and Robert Carroll. 2008. AEI Tax Policy Outlook.
Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
From 2009 to 2011, I was special assistant to Vice Chairman William M. Thomas on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The commission’s work was published as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report in 2010. I believe that the Commission’s report continues to be the most thorough description of the events that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis and is necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding the causes of the crisis.