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Devesh Raval

Deputy Director

Bureau, Office or Division
Office of the Director
Phone
(202) 326-2260
Email Address
draval@ftc.gov

Selected Publications

  • "Amplifying Consumers’ Voice: The FTC’s ReportFraud Website Redesign," with Michel Grosz, Marketing Science, 2024.
  • "Testing the Production Approach to Markup Estimation," Review of Economic Studies, 2023.
  • "Using Disaster Induced Closures to Evaluate Discrete Choice Models of Hospital Demand," with Ted Rosenbaum and Nathan Wilson, RAND Journal of Economics, 2022. 
  • "Micro Data and Macro Technology," with Ezra Oberfield, Econometrica, 2021. 
  • "How Do Machine Learning Algorithms Perform in Changing Environments? Evidence from Disaster Induced Hospital Closures," with Ted Rosenbaum and Nathan Wilson, Journal of Health Economics, 2021.
  • "Why is Distance Important for Hospital Choice? Separating Home Bias from Transport Costs," With Ted Rosenbaum, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2021.
  • "Whose Voice Do We Hear in the Marketplace?: Evidence from Consumer Complaining Behavior," Marketing Science, 2020. 
  • "The Micro Elasticity of Substitution and Non Neutral Technology," RAND Journal of Economics, 2019. 
  • "Do Previous Choices Matter for Hospital Demand? Decomposing Switching Costs from Unobserved Preferences," with Ted Rosenbaum, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018.
  • "What's Wrong with Capital in the 21st Century's Model?," After Piketty: The Inequality Agenda post-Capital in the 21st Century (Harvard University Press), 2017.
  • "A Semiparametric Discrete Choice Model: An Application to Hospital Mergers," with Ted Rosenbaum and Steven Tenn, Economic Inquiry, 2017.

Selected Presentations

  • Multi-Output Production and Economies of Scope. Palermo Productivity Workshop. Palermo, Italy (2024)
  • Fraud Across Borders. Economics of Payments XIII Conference. Vienna, Austria (2024)
  • Hassle Costs and Consumers' Voice: Evidence from a Website Redesign. DG-Justice, European Commission. 
    Brussels, Belgium (2023)
  • Steering in One Click: Platform Self-Preferencing in the Amazon Buy Box. Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA (2022)
  • Do Gatekeepers Develop Worse Products? Evidence from Online Review Platforms. Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA (2022)

Selected Casework

D-Link
Age of Learning, Inc. (ABCmouse)
AT&T Mobility, LLC (Mobile Billing)
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Hornbeam Special Situations, LLC
DebtPro 123 LLC
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Tate’s Auto Center

Selected Reports

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues
Blurred Lines: An Exploration of Consumers’ Advertising Recognition in the Contexts of Search Engines and Native Advertising: A Federal Trade Commission Staff Report
Combating Fraud In African American & Latino Communities: The FTC's Comprehensive Strategic Plan: A Federal Trade Commission Report To Congress
Serving Communities of Color: A Staff Report on the Federal Trade Commission's Efforts to Address Fraud and Consumer Issues Affecting Communities of Color

Education

University of Chicago
PhD Economics
University of Chicago
MA Economics
University of Virginia
BA Economics and Mathematics

Fields of Interest

  • Industrial Organization
  • Productivity
  • Applied Econometrics

Professional Experience

Deputy Director
Federal Trade Commission
2022-Present

Victor H. Kramer Foundation Fellow
Harvard Law School
2021-2022

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2013-2022

Senior Economist
Amazon.com
2012-2013

Economist
Amazon.com
2011-2012

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