Michael Luca presents a research paper at his Alma Mater

Michael Luca, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School returned to department of economics from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2003. He presented a paper showing on discrimination in the sharing economy. Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. Michael and his coauthors demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an important unintended consequence: racial discrimination.

Photo: Michael Luca, third from the right, with the Economics professors who taught him while at UAlbany.