Research
Publications:
1. Patent Privateering, Litigation, and R&D Incentives (with Emil Temnyalov). The RAND Journal of Economics. Volume 48, Issue 4, Winter 2017, Pages 1004-1026 - Online Appendix - Journal Link
2. The Direction of Innovation (with Kevin Bryan). Journal of Economic Theory. Volume 172, November 2017, Pages 247–272. Journal Link
3. Delayed Entry Settlements at the Patent Office (with Erik Hovenkamp) International Review of Law and Economics. Volume 54, June 2018, Pages 30-38 - Online Appendix - Journal Link
4. When the Clock Starts Ticking: Measuring Strategic Responses to TRIPS's Patent Term Change (with Guillermo Marshall) Research Policy. Volume 47, Issue 4, May 2018, Pages 796-804. Journal Link
5. Therapeutic Translation of Genomic Science: Opportunities and Limitations of GWAS. (with Manuel Hermosilla) Economic Dimensions of Personalized Medicine (Berndt, Goldman, and Rowe, editors). Chapter 2. The University of Chicago Press, 2019. NBER Link
6. Pay-for-Delay with Follow on Products. (with Emil Temnyalov). Review of Industrial Organization. Volume 56, May 2020, Pages 697–714. Journal Link
7. Liability Insurance: Equilibrium Contracts under Monopoly and Competition. (with Emil Temnyalov and John L. Turner) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. Volume 13, Number 1, February 2021, Pages 83-115. Journal Link
8. Dynamic Tournament Design - Evidence from Prediction Contests. (with Guillermo Marshall). Journal of Political Economy. Volume 129, Number 2, February 2021. Journal Link
9. Price Leadership and Uncertainty about Future Costs. (with Fernando Luco). Journal of Industrial Economics. Volume 69, Number 2, Pages 305-337, 2021. Journal Link
10. Antitrust Limits on Patent Settlements: A New Approach. (with Erik Hovenkamp). Journal of Industrial Economics. Volume70, Issue2, June 2022, Pages 257-293. Online appendix - Journal Link.
Winner of the 2018 Young Economist Award, JEL Conference on Industrial Organization, Barcelona (Sept., 2018).
Winner Academic Articles Article in category Intellectual Property -- Concurrences 2022. Link
11. Post-Grant Adjudication of Drug Patents: Agency And/Or Court. (with Erik Hovenkamp, Arti K. Rai, and Saurabh Vishnubhakat). Berkeley Technology LJ. February 2023. Volume 67:139. Journal Link
12. R&D Competition and the Direction of Innovation. (with Kevin Bryan and Guillermo Marshall). International Journal Industrial Organization. Volume 82, May 2022. Journal Link
13. Has the PTAB made a difference in drug settlements and generic entry? (with Erik Hovenkamp, Arti K. Rai, and Saurabh Vishnubhakat). Nature Biotechnology. Volume 40, 1569–1572 (2022).
14. The Benefit of the Doubt: Patent Examination under Strategic Obfuscation. (with Nicolas Figueroa). Management Science. Journal Link
15. Mergers and Organizational Disruption: Evidence from the US Airline Industry. (with Julia Gonzalez and Guillermo Marshall). Accepted, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
16. Diversification and Information in Contests. (with Emil Temnyalov). Economic Theory, November 2023. Journal Link
17. Product Hopping and Innovation Incentives. (with Olgu Ozkul). Journal of Competition, Law, and Economics, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2023, pp. 580-609. Journal Link
18. Product Development with Lurking Patentees. (with Erik Hovenkamp and John L. Turner). Forthcoming, The RAND Journal of Economics.
19. Contingent Prizes in Dynamic Contests. May, 2022 (with Guillermo Marshall). Forthcoming, The RAND Journal of Economics.
Working Papers:
Teamwork in Contests. March, 2022 (with Guillermo Marshall). Revise and Resubmit, The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Signaling in Dynamic Contests with Heterogenous Rivals. February, 2022 (with Nicolas Figueroa and Jorge Catepillan).
Eavesdropping and Innovation. May, 2022 (with Yi Chen and Thomas Jungbauer).
A Comparison of Contests and Contracts to Deliver Cost-effective Energy Conservation (with Teevrat Garg, Guillermo Marshall, and Chi Ta) - In Progress