Working Papers

• "Lead Time and Innovation" with Dong Cheng and Fuat Sener. (Working Paper) 

• "Patents, Secrecy, and Financing Innovation" with Yibai Yang. (Working Paper) 

• "On the Modeling of Imitation in North-South Endogenous Growth Theory" with Florence Ut Meng Ho and Yibai Yang. (Working Paper) 

Publications

• "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Vertically Related Industries"- Economic Inquiry, in press. (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material) 

• "Innovation and Appropriation: Insights from the Chinese Patent Survey" with Dong Cheng and Fuat Sener - Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 35(1): 30-49, 2026. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version)(Supplementary Material)  

• "Innovation, Technology Transfer and the International Regulation of Patents and Trade Secrets" with Yibai Yang - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 236: 107090, 2025. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material) 

• "Patent Policy, Invention and Innovation in the Theory of Schumpeterian Growth" - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 176: 105112, 2025. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) 

• "Blocking Patents, Rent Protection and Economic Growth" with Yibai Yang  - Review of Economic Dynamics, 52: 1-20, 2024. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) 

• "Intellectual Property-Related Preferential Trade Agreements and Offshoring to Developing Countries" with Claudia Canals and Fuat Sener- Review of International Economics, 31(4): 1442-1475, 2023. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material) 

• "Product Innovation, Diffusion and Endogenous Growth"  with Fuat Sener  - Review of Economic Dynamics, 48: 178-201, 2023. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)

• "Trade Secret Protection, Multinational Firms and International Trade" - International Economics, 173: 325-342, 2023.  (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material) 

• "The Reward and Contract Theories of Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth" - European Economic Review, 147: 104178, 2022. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) (Supplementary Material)

• "Patents, Trade Secrets and International Technology Transfer" - Economics Letters, 210: 110180, 2022. (Published Version) (Working Paper Version) 

• "Secrecy, the Patent Puzzle and Endogenous Growth" - European Economic Review, 126: 103445, 2020.  (Published Version)   (Working Paper Version) 

• "Complementarity in Public and Private Intellectual Property Enforcement; Implications for International Standards" - Oxford Economic Papers, 72(3): 748-771, 2020. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version) 

• "Establishment Productivity Convergence and the Effect of Foreign Ownership at the Frontier" - World Development, 122: 245-260, 2019.   (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)

•  "Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Intellectual Property Protection in Developing Countries"  -  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 149: 389-412, 2018.   (Published Version) (Working Paper Version)

Book Chapters

• "Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Patent Puzzle" with Fuat Sener - In Handbook of Innovation and Intellectual Property, Walter Park (Editor), Elgar Publishing, 102-119, 2024. (Published Version)  (Working Paper Version)