I am an Associate Professor of Economics at Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, GA. I work primarily in Industrial Organization. My research can be classified into the following three categories, with an overlap between the first two: 1. Economics of Innovation. 2. Auction Theory. 3. Economics of Crime.
Articles
Endogenous R&D and Intellectual Property Laws in Developed and Emerging Economies (with Abhra Roy), Southern Economic Journal (2012)
The incentive of providing protection of intellectual property has been analyzed, both for an emerging...
Commitment and Excess Capacity with Licensing: An Old Debate With a New Look (with Arijit Mukherjee), Journal of Economics (2011)
The theoretical literature demonstrates that excess capacity is not an equilibrium phenomenon if each firm’s...
Improving Bid Efficiency for Humanitarian Food Aid Procurement (with Jomon A. Paul and Mike Maloni), International Journal of Production Economics (2011)
The competitive bid process used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to procure food...
Optimal Patent Policy with Endogenous Cross-Border Acquisitions (with Abhra Roy), Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2011)
The issue of optimal patent protection is of great importance since the inclusion of the...
Licensing and Patent Protection (with Arijit Mukherjee), Economics Bulletin (2010)
We show the impact of technology licensing on optimal patent policy. Strong patent protection that...
Unpublished Papers
Workplace Deviance and Recession (with Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay) (2011)
We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the business...
Second Chance Offers in Second Price and English Auctions (with Brett Katzman and Timothy Mathews) (2011)
This paper examines situations in which a seller might make a second chance (take-it-or-leave-it) offer...