Hi! My name is Michael 👋
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics at the University of Georgia. I am an empirical IO economist with interest in labor economics, franchising, and broadband.
My latest working paper studies the effects of Chattanooga, Tennessee's municipal broadband project on its local labor market performance.I am also an assistant with the James C. Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation at the University of Georgia. I was a Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
Prior to graduate school, I worked as a program manager at Mercatus, contributing to projects related to regulatory processes, technological innovation, and entrepreneurship. My writings on antitrust, aviation, broadband, cost-benefit analysis, drones, and social media regulation have appeared in USA Today, POLITICO Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Hill, and Tribune News Service.
I also have experience as a freelance web developer and enjoy coding projects.