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Publications
  • “Welfare-Reducing Mergers in Differentiated Oligopolies with Free Entry,” with Daniel Piccinin, Economic Record, forthcoming. [pdf]
  • “Cooperative R&D under Uncertainty with Free Entry,” with Daniel Piccinin, International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming. [pdf].
  • "Propersities to Engage in and Punish Corrupt Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore," 2009, with Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri, and Lata Gangadharan, Journal of Public Economics, 93(7-8), 843-851. [pdf]
  • "Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students," 2009, with Vivi Alatas, Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri, and Lata Gangadharan, Experimental Economics, 12(1), 113-132. [pdf]
  • “Gender and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis," 2009, with Vivi Alatas, Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri, and Lata Gangadharan, Southern Economic Journal, 75(3), 663-680. [pdf]
  • "Buyer-Supplier Interaction, Asset Specificity, and Product Choice," 2007, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25(5), 988-1010. [pdf]
  • "The Decision to Patent, Cumulative Innovation, and Optimal Policy," 2005, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23(7-8), 535-562. [pdf]
  • "Optimal Licensing Policy in Differentiated Industries," 2005, Economic Record, 81(252), 51-64. [pdf]
  • "On the Interaction between Patent and Trade Secret Policy," 2004, Australian Economic Review, 37(4), 427-435. [pdf]
 
Working Papers
  • "Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it," with Suzanne Scotchmer, NBER Working Paper No. 14940. (under review) [pdf]
  • "Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment," with Lata Gangadharan and Nikos Nikiforakis. (revise and resubmit, American Economic Review) [pdf]
  • "An Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Incentives to Share Knowledge," with Cary Deck. (under review) [pdf]
  • "Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt," with Deborah Cobb-Clark and Juan Baron, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3904. (under review) [pdf]
  • “Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D,” with Suzanne Scotchmer. [pdf]
  • “Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development,” with Deborah Minehart, US DOJ, Antitrust Division, EAG Discussion Papers, EAG 07-7. (under review) [pdf] [Appendix]
  • “Horizontal Mergers with Free Entry inDifferentiated Oligopolies,” with Daniel Piccinin, University of Melbourne, Department of Economics, Research Paper #976. [pdf]
 
Work in Progress