​Hello, hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (www.asb.edu.my), a partnership between the Malaysian Central Bank and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. I also hold an appointment at MIT Sloan as a Research Affiliate. I am an applied microeconomist with expertise in industrial organization, market design, labor economics, and public policy. I have studied two-sided matching platforms, retirement markets, pedagogical innovations in economic education, entrepreneurship, and labor informality within vulnerable groups in Southeast Asia. If you have any questions: melati@mit.edu. Click here to view my CV.