Articles

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Second Chance Offers in Auctions (with Brett Katzman and Timothy Mathews), Journal of Economics (2013)

This paper examines situations in which a seller might make a second chance (take-it-or-leave-it) offer...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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“Selling Licenses for a Process Innovation: The Impact of the Product Market on the Selling Mechanism, Canadian Journal of Economics (2008)

This article considers the sale by a research lab of licences for a cost-reducing innovation....

 

Unpublished Papers

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Optimal Licensing Contract under Private Information and Weak Intellectual Property Rights (2013)

I consider a model of licensing in a regime of weak patents when the innovator...

 

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Lobbying and the Adoption of Medical Technology under Certificate of Need Laws (with Govind Hariharan and Timothy Mathews) (2013)

This paper theoretically analyzes the impact of lobbying under the Certificate of Need (CON) laws...

 

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Workplace Deviance and Recession (with Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay) (2012)

We examine the relationship between the incidence of workplace deviance (on-the-job crime) and the state...

 

Presentations

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Workplace Deviance and Recession, Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference (2012)
 

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Allocation of Medical Technology under Certificate of Need Laws (with Govind Hariharan and Timothy Mathews), Southern Economic Association Annual Conference (2010)