Research
Using economic theory and data-driven research to design better technologies, markets, and public policies.
We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between rich and poor countries have converged while penetration rates, once technologies are adopted, have diverged. The…
Digital Economics is an annual day-and-a-half long conference hosted by Microsoft Research. This year’s theme was machine learning and economics, held at the Microsoft Research offices in New York City, on September 9-10, 2016.
When and why will observed play in a game approximate an equilibrium, and what sort of equilibria will persist? To understand this, we study the long-run outcomes of rational non-equilibrium learning. In one-shot simultaneous-move games,…
