Recovering Taste for Luxury from Airline Upgrade Auctions
Talk at Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Economics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2025 (Expected)
- M.A. in Economics, Duke University, 2019
- B.S. in Economics and Mathematics, Belmont University, 2016 (Summa Cum Laude)
Research experience
- Summer 2020 - Present: Research Assistant
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Duties included: Working on research topics around forecasting intermittent, demand with integer-valued outcomes, airline upgrade auction design, and market definitions.
- Supervisor: Jon Williams
- Summer - Fall 2022: Research Assistant
- Personal RA for NERA Affiliated Consultant
- Duties included: Formatting, cleaning, and combining electricity auction data using Microsoft Excel.
- Supervisor: Chantale LaCasse
- Summer 2021: User Behavior and Economics Research Intern
- CableLabs
- Duties included: Developing a time-use model of consumer demand for internet usage
- Supervisor: Jacob Malone
- Summer 2020 - Fall 2020: Research Assistant
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Duties included: Cleaned and managed data from Pharmaprojects and IMS in Stata
- Supervisor: Luca Maini and Andres Hincapie
- Fall 2017 - Spring 2019: Research Assistant
- Duke University
- Duties included: Identified acquisitions in raw data, managed data in SAS, and ran regressions in Stata.
- Resulting paper: How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
- Supervisor: James Roberts
Talks
Airline Upgrade Auctions
Talk at Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Teaching
Awards
- Gallman Scholar Fellowship, Spring 2022
- Center for Regulatory and Industrial Studies Collaborative Summer Fellowship, Summer 2021, 2022
- Duke Economics Tuition Waiver, Fall 2017 - Spring 2019
Service and leadership
- UNC Economics Graduate Student Association President, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022