Oleg has research interests in applied microeconomics, industrial organisation health economics and public economics.
Articles
Ramsey-Friedman Optimality with Banking Time (with Max K. Gillman), Topics in Macroeconomics (2012)
This paper conducts a Ramsey analysis within an endogenous growth cash-in-advance economy with policy commitment....
The Social Cost of Blackmail, Review of Law & Economics (2012)
Despite the fact that blackmail constitutes a voluntary transaction between two parties, it is deemed...
Is the age gradient in self-reported material hardship explained by resources, needs, behaviours or reporting bias? (with Peter Siminski), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2010)
Older people report much less hardship than younger people in a range of contexts, despite...
Intellectual property rights and crop-improving R&D under adaptive destruction (with GianCarlo Moschini), Environmental and Resource Economics (2008)
This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological...
Patents, research exemption, and the incentive for sequential innovation (with GianCarlo Moschini), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (2008)
We develop a quality ladder model to study the R&D incentive impacts of intellectual property...
Contributions to Books
The Economic Incentive to Innovate in Plants: Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights (with Gian Carlo Moschini), in J. Kasen (ed.), Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change (2007)
The exclusivity conferred to inventors by intellectual properly rights (IPRs) provides an ex ante incentive...