research

policy works

• Startup acquisition and merger policy

with Christopher Teh (TSE)

Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, accepted.  

• Market definition for multi-sided platforms in Australia: Epic Games v Apple 

     with Luke Wainscoat (Brattle)

     Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law, invited submission.  

• Competition and Inclusion: Co-operatives’ Role in the Australian Retail, Care, and Farming Sectors 

with Filip Premik (Monash), Paul Thambar (Monash), Frank Yao (Monash), and Dan Yu (Alberta)

in progress

• Revisiting Arrow's replacement effect

     with Lijun Pan (Nanjing) and Christopher Teh (TSE)

• Constrained merger policy design

     with Andrew Rhodes (TSE) and Christopher Teh (TSE)

• Robust merger policy and innovation

      with Nicolas Schutz (Mannheim) and Christopher Teh (TSE)

     Presented at MaCCI Annual Conference 2026

• Platform recommendations and disintermediation

with Andrei Hagiu (BU) and Julian Wright (NUS)

Presented at APIOC 2025

• Bundling and investment in two-sided markets

     with Martin Peitz (Mannheim)

• Pay as you share:  publishers, platforms, and regulation 

with Arthur Campbell (Monash) and Geoffrey Go (Australian Treasury)

• Startup acquisition and innovation 

with Christopher Teh (TSE)

publications

• Acquisition-induced kill zones 

with Christopher Teh and Dyuti Banerjee

Management Science, accepted.

• Regulating platform fees 

with Julian Wright

Journal of European Economic Association, vol. 23(2), pages 746–783, 2025. 

• Strategic limitation of market accessibility: search platform design and welfare 

with Christopher Teh and Makoto Watanabe

Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 216, 105798, 2024.

• Softening competition through unilateral sharing of customer data

with Chongwoo Choe and Jiajia Cong

Management Science, vol. 70(1), pages 526-543, 2024.

• To insure or not to insure? promoting trust and cooperation with insurance advice in markets

with Ben Grodeck, Franziska Tausch, and Erte Xiao

European Economic Review, vol. 160, 104586, 2023.

• Platform investment and price parity clauses

with Julian Wright

Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 71(2), pages 323-592, 2023.

• Welfare improving horizontal mergers in successive oligopoly

with Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita

Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 70(1), pages 89-118, 2022.

•  Search platforms: showrooming and price parity clauses

with Julian Wright

Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 51,  pages 32-58, 2020.

•  A search model of rental markets: who should pay the commission?

with Andras Niedermayer

International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 58, pages 214-235, 2018. 

•  Advertising as a search deterrent

Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 48, pages 949-971, 2017. 

This article was based on Chapter 1 of my Ph.D. thesis at UNSW.

•  Strategic advertising and directed search

with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Benoit Julien

International Economic Review, vol. 58(3), pages 783-806, 2017. 

This article was based on Chapter 2 of my Ph.D. thesis at UNSW.

•  Non-monotonic group-size effect in repeated provision of public goods

with Galina Zudenkova

European Economic Review, vol. 89, pages 116-128, 2016.

• Optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a search-theoretical model with money and unemployment

with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Benoit Julien

Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 17(06), pages 1330-1354, September 2013.  

This article was based on Chapter 3 of my Ph.D. thesis at UNSW, and was mentioned in NPE-DGE blog.

• Industrial upgrade, employment shock and land centralization in China

with Shunfeng Song and Jianghuai Zheng

Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 30(4), pages 523-532, October 2012. 

This article was based on a term paper that I wrote during my M.Ec study at Nanjing University.