RESEARCH

PUBLICATION IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

• Insourcing versus Outsourcing in Vertical Structure (with R. Strausz), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, forthcoming (2024)

• Vertical Relationships with Hidden Interactions (with J. Kim), Games, 14, Article 69, special issue on Industrial Organization and Organizational Economics (2023)

• Information Acquisition and Countervailing Incentives (with S. Yun), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 107, Article 102848 (2023)

• Aggregate Information and Organizational Structures (with G. Celik and R. Strausz), Journal of Industrial Economics, 71, 256-290 (2023)

• Overachieving and Obsessive Behavior as Signaling Devices under Career Concern (with A. Rodivilov and X. Zhao), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 178, 311-331 (2022)

• Public Good Overprovision by a Manipulative Provider (with G. Celik and R. Strausz), RAND Journal of Economics, 52, 314-333 (2021)

• Supervisory Information and Loss Aversion (with S. Yun), Economics Letters, 204, Article 109908 (2021)

• Obstructive Monitoring (with A. Finkle), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 29, 873-891 (2020)

• Distorted Input Ratios in Vertical Relationships (with M. Peitz), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122, 1480-1509 (2020)

• Managing R&D in Vertical Relationships (with C. Dai), Economic Inquiry, 57, 1510-1525 (2019)

• Optimal Loyalty-Based Management, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 26, 429-453 (2017)

• Limited Communication and Responsibility Budgeting (with S. Yun), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 173, 548-564 (2017)

• Price Discrimination with Demarketing (with J. Kim), Journal of Industrial Economics, 64, 773-807 (2016)

• Incentives and Management Styles, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 40, 22-31 (2015)

• Information Provision before a Contract is Offered (with J. Kim), Economics Letters, 124, 490-493 (2014)

• Delegation and Dynamic Incentives (with R. Strausz), RAND Journal of Economics, 45, 495-520 (2014)

• Upfront Financing vs. Staged Financing: The Role of Verifiability (with S. Yun), Quantitative Finance, 14, 1069-1078 (2014)

• Innovation and Waste in Supply Chain Management (with M. Peitz), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 86, 191-199 (2013)

• Upstream Market Power and Wasteful Retailers (with M. Peitz), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115, 234-253 (2013)

• Underwriter Syndication and Corporate Governance (with H. Jo and Y. Kim), Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 38, 61-86 (2012)

• Voluntary Quality Disclosure under Price-Signaling Competition (with F. Caldieraro and A. Stivers), Managerial and Decision Economics, 32, 493-504 (2011)

• Granting an Exit Option to Conduct an Audit (with S. Yun), Bulletin of Economic Research, 63, 438-463 (2011)

• Disregarding the Attorney's Advice: An Agency Perspective (with A. Finkle), Review of Law and Economics, 6, 197-217 (2010)

• Risk Taking as Self Discipline in Contractual Relationships (with S. Starbird), International Journal of the Economics of Business, 16, 289-304 (2009)

• Informed Principal and Information Gathering Agent (with S. Yun), Review of Economic Design, 12, 229-244 (2008)

• Collusion and Outcome Equivalency, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 164, 449-459 (2008)

• Information Acquisition and Optimal Project Management, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 26, 1032-1043 (2008)

• Warranties as a Device to Extract Rent from Low-risk Users of a Product (with D. Hakes), Managerial and Decision Economics, 29, 1-7 (2008)

• Contracts under Wage Compression: A Case of Beneficial Collusion, Southern Economic Journal, 74, 143-157 (2007)

• Conducting Inaccurate Audits to Commit to the Audit Policy (with A. Finkle), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 25, 379-389 (2007)

• Gathering Information by a Partially Informed Agent (with S. Yun), International Game Theory Review, 8, 675-694 (2006)

• Optimal Task Design: To Integrate or Separate Planning and Implementation? (with F. Khalil and D. Kim), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 15, 457-478 (2006)

• Organizational Flexibility and Co-operative Task Allocation among Agents (with J. Lawarrée), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 161, 621-635 (2005)

• Exit Option in Hierarchical Agency (with D. Kim and J. Lawarrée), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 22, 1265-1287 (2004)

• Choice of Technology in Outsourcing: An Endogenous Information Structure (with S. Yun), Information Economics and Policy, 16, 165-178 (2004)

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION

•  An Economic Theory of Alcoholics and Workaholics (with A. Finkle), Economic Inquiry (in Miscellany Section), 52, 896-899 (2014)

• Optimal Contracting Policy for E-Mall Services (with M. Parameswaran), Proceedings of IEEE E-Commerce Technology (2008)

WORKING PAPERS

• Motivating Loyal Bureaucrats in Sequential Agency (with A. Rodivilov)

• Gaining Control by Losing Control (with J. Kim and A. Rodivilov)

• Restricting Managerial Decisions: Insider Vs Outsider (with S. Yun)

• Information Alliance in Common Agency (with R. Lima, H. Moreira, and A. Rodivilov)

• Soft-Landing Contracts (with B. Ganglmair and J. Klix)

ON-GOING RESEARCH

• Distribution Channel and Product Quality (with R. Strausz)

• Inviting Competition to Discriminate Prices (with G. Celik)

• Innovation and Organizational Structures

• Task Design as an Incentive Device (with A. Dosis)

• Competition Policy and Brain Drain (with Y. Kurokawa)