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Quan Le

I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. My research is in Industrial Organization with a focus on media economics, economic history, and the economics of digital platforms.

[qle@hbs.edu] [CV]

Research

Working Papers

Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies

American Economic Review, Revise and Resubmit
2026
[paper] [online appendix]

Urban Migration, Public Health Amenities, and Local Newspapers in 1870-1940 U.S.

Work in Progress

If You Can't Beat Them, Ban Them: Hotel Market Power and Short-Term Rental Regulations

Publications

American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers

with Melissa Dell, Jacob Carlson, Tom Bryan, Emily Silcock, Abhishek Arora, Zejiang Shen, Luca D'Amico-Wong, Pablo Querubín, and Leander Heldring
Neural Information Processing Systems — Datasets and Benchmarks, 2023
[paper] [dataset] [GitHub]

Teaching

Harvard Business School

Strategy, MBA Required Curriculum, 2025-26

Princeton

Junior Independent Workshop
Economics of Risk and Uncertainty, with Leeat Yariv (2020–2022)
Firm Competition and Strategy, with Kate Ho (2020–2022) and Jakub Kastl (2023)

Community Resources

[a community guide for RAs in economics]
[collections of links for undergrads getting started in economics]
[remembering my advisor Kate Ho]