Research

Publications

• "Optimal Policing with (and without) Criminal Search" (with Carol Gao), Review of Economic Design, 29, 213-244, 2025 [lead article] [PDF]

• "Bitcoin Adoption and Beliefs in Canada" (with Daniela Balutel, Chris Henry, and Marcel Voia), Canadian Journal of Economics, 55(4), 1729-1761, 2022 [PDF]

• "A Theory of Crime and Vigilance" American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(3), 255-303, 2022 [PDF]

• "Co-worker Altruism and Unemployment" (with Marek Weretka), Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 224-239, 2021 [PDF]

• "Affective Empathy in Non-cooperative Games" (with Marek Weretka) Games and Economic Behavior, 121, 548-564, 2020 [PDF] [SSRN]

• "Monopoly Regulation under Asymmetric Information: Prices versus Quantities" (with Leonardo J. Basso and Nicolás Figueroa) RAND Journal of Economics, 48(3), 557-578, 2017 [lead article] [PDF] [SSRN]

Working Papers

• "Misinformation in Social Media: The Role of Verification Incentives," 2024 (with Gonzalo Cisternas), Revise-and-Resubmit (2nd round),  Journal of the European Economic Association [PDF]

• "On the Intensity of Enforcement and Crime," 2025 [PDF]

• "The Role of Beliefs in Entering and Exiting the Bitcoin Market," 2024 (with Daniela Balutel, Chris Henry, and Marcel Voia)

• “Bitcoin Experimentation in Canada: Adoption and Beliefs,” 2019 (with Kerry Nield) [PDF]