About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Université de Montréal and an affiliate of CIREQ. I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market. My doctoral work is featured in the Maison des affaires publiques et internationales scholar portrait (in French).
My research lies at the intersection of econometrics, industrial organization, and public policy. I develop econometric methods for estimating strategic interaction models and apply structural models to study competition, market structure, and policy interventions, with applications to digital infrastructure, telecommunications, and financial services.
Job market paper
Effects of Subsidies on Welfare and Market Structure in the U.S. Broadband Industry
Abstract
Should broadband subsidies target affordability or deployment? I study the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in one welfare framework, combining cross-state event studies with a tract-level structural model of demand, pricing, and entry estimated on 170,419 products across 66,454 census tracts. I bound entry fixed costs across provider-tier markets with a moment-inequality estimator that scales where solving the entry game would not. ACP cut prices 7–10 percent at peak and shifted demand toward faster plans; BEAD’s effects are smaller and lagged, consistent with construction timelines. The programs complement rather than substitute for each other: BEAD’s gains concentrate in unserved and monopoly tracts and are flat across income; ACP’s concentrate in low-income households and are flat across market structure. Each addresses a binding constraint. Together they imply a sequencing rule: build where deployment is uneconomic, then target affordability where price still binds.
Interests
- Econometrics
- Industrial Organization
- Applied Microeconomics
- Public Economics
Education
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Ph.D. in Economics, 2021–2027 (expected)Université de Montréal
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M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics, 2016–2019ENSAE-Dakar
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B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2013–2016Université Nazi Boni, Bobo-Dioulasso
Selected awards & fellowships
- Finalist, Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award2025
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture Fellowship, ranked 2nd2024–2026
- Ph.D. Scholarship, Maison des Affaires Publiques et Internationales, FAS2026–2027
- J.W. McConnell Foundation Chair Scholarship in American Studies2025–2026
- Ph.D. Fellowship, Department of Economics and CIREQ, Université de Montréal2021–2024
- World Bank Vice President’s Program for African Statistical Schools2019–2021
Selected presentations
- 2026 African Econometric Society Conference, Cairo; AMIE Workshop; CIREQ; Industrial Organization Study Group, Montréal
- 2025 Competition Bureau of Canada (invited seminar), Gatineau; Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award Workshop, Ottawa; Congrès SCSE, Orford; CIREQ-UdeM Seminar
- 2024 CIREQ Econometrics Conference, Montréal; Canadian Econometric Study Group Annual Meeting, Toronto
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