Journal papers

I.P.L. Png, “Strategic Behavior in Suit, Settlement and Trial”, Bell Journal of Economics, Vol. 14 No. 2, Autumn 1983, 539-550.  Reprinted in David K. Levine and Steven A. Lippman, Eds., The Economics of Information, Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1995; Reprinted in Eric B. Rasmusen, Ed., Game Theory and the Law, Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2007.

I.P.L. Png, “Optimal Subsidies and Damages in the Presence of Judicial Error”, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 6 No. 1, June 1986, 101-105.

I.P.L. Png and D. Hirshleifer, “Price Discrimination Through Offers to Match Price”, Journal of Business, Vol. 60 No. 3, July 1987, 365-384. 

I.P.L. Png, “Litigation, Liability, and Incentives for Care”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 34 No. 1, October 1987, 61-85.

Dilip Mookherjee and Ivan Png, “Optimal Auditing, Insurance and Redistribution”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 104 No. 2, May 1989, 399-415. 

I.P.L. Png, “Reservations: Customer Insurance in the Marketing of Capacity”, Marketing Science, Vol. 8 No. 3, Summer 1989, 248-264.

I.P.L. Png and Eric Zolt, “Efficient Deterrence and the Tax Treatment of Monetary Sanctions”, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 9 No. 2, December 1989, 209-217.

David Hirshleifer and I.P.L. Png, “Facilitation of Competing Bids and the Price of a Takeover Target”, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 2 No. 4, October 1989, 587-606. 

Tom K. Lee and I.P.L. Png, “The Role of Instalment Payments in Contracts for Services”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 21 No. 1, Spring 1990, 83-99.

Dilip Mookherjee and I.P.L. Png, “Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Progressivity of Income Taxes”, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 6 No. 2, Fall 1990, 411-431.

I.P.L. Png, “Most-Favoured Customer Protection versus Price Discrimination Over Time”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 99 No. 5, October 1991, 1010-1028.

K. Sridhar Moorthy and I.P.L. Png, “Market Segmentation, Cannibalization, and the Timing of Product Introductions”, Management Science, Vol. 38 No. 3, March 1992, 345-359.

Dilip Mookherjee and I.P.L. Png, “Monitoring vis-a-vis Investigation in Enforcement of Law”, American Economic Review, Vol. 82 No. 3, June 1992, 556-565.

Hui-Wen Koo and I.P.L. Png, “Private Security: Deterrent or Diversion? International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 14, March 1994, 87-101. 

Dilip Mookherjee and I.P.L. Png, “Marginal Deterrence in Enforcement of Law”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102 No. 5, October 1994, 1039-1066.

I.P.L. Png and David Reitman, “Service Time Competition”, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 25 No. 4, Winter 1994, 619-634.

Dilip Mookherjee and I.P.L. Png, “Corruptible Law Enforcers: How Should They Be Compensated?Economic Journal, Vol. 105 No. 428, January 1995, 145-159 [with D. Mookherjee].  Reprinted in Gianluca Fiorentini and Stefano Zamagni, Eds., The Economics of Corruption and Illegal Markets, Vol. II, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1999. Reprinted in Ajit Mishra, Ed., The Economics of Corruption, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2005.

I.P.L. Png and David Reitman, “Why Are Some Products Branded And Others Not?Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 38 No. 1, April 1995, 207-224. Reprinted in Ruth Towse and Rudi W. Holzhauer, Eds., The Economics of Intellectual Property, Vol. III, Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2002.

V. Padmanabhan and I.P.L. Png, “Returns Policies: Make Money by Making Good”, Sloan Management Review, Vol. 37 No. 1, Fall 1995, 65-72.

V. Padmanabhan and I.P.L. Png, “Manufacturers Returns Policies and Retail Competition”, Marketing Science, Vol. 16 No. 1, February 1997, 81-94.

Lucian Arye Bebchuk and I.P.L. Png, “Damage Measures for Inadvertant Breach of Contract”, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 19 No. 3, September 1999, 319-331. 

Ivan P.L. Png, Bernard C.Y. Tan, and Khai Ling Wee, “National Culture and Corporate Adoption of Information Technology”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 48 No. 1, February 2001, 36-45.

Yeh-ning Chen and Ivan Png, “Information Goods Pricing and Copyright Enforcement: Welfare Analysis”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 14 No. 1, March 2003, 107-123.

Chu-chia S. Lin and Ivan Png, “Monitoring Costs and the Mode of International Investment”, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 3 No. 3, July 2003, 261-274. Data-set.

Kai-Lung Hui and Ivan Png, “Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music”, BE Press Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2003, Article 11.

V. Padmanabhan and I.P.L. Png, “Reply: Do Returns Policies Intensify Retail Competition?Marketing Science, Vol. 23 No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 614–618.

Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Sang-Yong Tom Lee, and Ivan P.L. Png, “Overcoming Online Information Privacy Concerns: An Information Processing Theory Approach”, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24 No. 2, Fall 2007, 13-42.

Il-Horn Hann, Kai-Lung Hui, Sang-Yong T. Lee, and Ivan P.L. Png, “Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance: A Static Model”, Management Science, Vol. 54 No. 6, June 2008, 1094-1103.

Ivan P.L. Png, Chen-yu Wang, and Qiu-hong Wang, “The Deterrent and Displacement Effects of Information Security Enforcement: International Evidence”, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 25 No. 2, Fall 2008, 125-144.

Ivan P.L. Png and Qiu-hong Wang, “Information Security: Facilitating User Precautions vis-à-vis Enforcement Against Attackers”, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 26 No. 2, Fall 2009, 97-122.

I.P.L. Png and Hao Wang, “Buyer Uncertainty and Two-Part Pricing: Theory and Applications”, Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 2, February 2010, 334-342.

I.P.L. Png, “On the Reliability of Software Piracy Statistics”, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Vol. 9 No. 5, September 2010, 365-373. Republished in 10th Anniversary Virtual Special Issue, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2012. Data-set.

Khim-Yong Goh, Kai-Lung Hui, and Ivan P.L. Png, “Newspaper Reports and Consumer Choice: Evidence from the Do Not Call Registry”, Management Science, Vol. 57 No. 9 September 2011, 1640-1654. Appendix.

Yi Lu, Ivan P.L. Png, and Zhigang Tao, “Do institutions not matter in China? Evidence from manufacturing enterprises”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 41 No. 1, February 2013, 74-90.

Albert G.Z. Hu and I.P.L. Png, “Patent Rights and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Panels of Manufacturing Industries”, Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 65 No. 3 July 2013, 675-698. Data-set.

Kai-Lung Hui and I.P.L. Png, “Research Note -- Migration of Service to the Internet: Evidence from a Federal Natural Experiment”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 26 No. 3, September 2015, 606-618.

Khim Yong Goh, Kai-lung Hui, and I.P.L. Png, “Privacy and Marketing Externalities: Evidence from Do Not Call”, Management Science, Vol. 61 No. 12, December 2015, 2982-3000.

Chunmian Ge, Ke-wei Huang, and I.P.L. Png, “Engineer/Scientist Careers: Patents, Online Profiles, and Misclassification Bias”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 37 No. 1, January 2016, 232-253. Appendix. Supplement.

I.P.L. Png, “Law and Innovation: Evidence from State Trade Secrets Laws”, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 99 No. 1, March 2017, 167-179. Supplement.

I.P.L. Png, “Secrecy and Patents: Theory and Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act”, Strategy Science, Vol. 2 No. 3, September 2017, 176-193. Data-set.

Qiang Fu, Jie Gong, and I.P.L. Png, “Law, Social Responsibility, and Outsourcing”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 57, March 2018, 114-146.

Teck-hua Ho, I.P.L. Png, and Sadat Reza, “Sunk Cost Fallacy and Driving the World’s Costliest Cars”, Management Science, Vol. 64 No. 4, April 2018, 1761-1778. Appendix. Data-set.

Junhong Chu, Haoming Liu, and I.P.L. Png, “Non-labor Income and the Age of Marriage: Evidence from China’s Heating Policy”, Demography, Vol. 55 No. 6, December 2018, 2345-2370. Data-set.

I.P.L. Png, “U.S. R&D, 1975-1998: A New Dataset”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 40 No. 5, May 2019, 715-735. Appendix. Data-set.

Ivan P.L. Png, Yehning Chen, Junhong Chu, Yikang Feng,  Elaine Kuan-Hui Lin, and Wan-ling Tseng, "Temperature, precipitation and sunshine across China, 1912-51: A new daily instrumental dataset", Geoscience Data Journal, Vol. 7 No. 2, November 2020, 90-101.

I.P.L. Png and Charmaine H.Y. Tan, "Cost of Cash: Evidence from Cashiers", Service Science, Vol. 13 No. 2, June 2021, 88-108, https://doi.org/10.1287/serv.2021.0272. Supplement. Data-set.


Junjian Yi, Junhong Chu, and I.P.L. Png, “Early-life exposure to hardship increased risk tolerance and entrepreneurship in adulthood with gender differences”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 119 No. 15, 5 April 2022, e2104033119. Previously entitled, “Entrepreneurship and the School of Hard Knocks: Evidence from China’s Great Famine”. Data-set.

Yun Hou, I.P.L. Png, and Xi Xiong, "When stronger patent laws reduce patenting: Empirical evidence", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 44 No. 4, April 2023, 977-1012. Data-set.

Yun Hou, I.P.L. Png and Xi Xiong, The Federal Circuit Enriched Patent Owners Without Eliciting Better Inventions, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Vol. 31 No. 2, Spring 2023, 295-326. Data-set.

Jie Gong and I.P.L. Png, "Automation Enables Specialization: Field evidence", Management Science, Vol. 70, No. 3, March 2024, 1580-1595. Data-set.

Xiaohong Xu, Ivan Png, Junhong Chu, and Yehning Chen, "The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution", Theory and Society, Vol. 53 No. 2, April 2024, 465–508.