Publications
Reference dependence and lottery participation, Economic Inquiry, 2026
Delegated Contracting, Wage Compression, and Quiet Quitting, The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2026
Signaling Quality: How Refund Bonuses Can Overcome Information Asymmetries in Crowdfunding (with Timothy Cason and Alexander Tabarrok), Management Science , 2024
Optimal labor income taxation with the dividend effect (with Alexey Kushnir), Economic Theory, 2024
Work Experience, Information Revelation, and Study Effort (with Thanos Mergoupis), Oxford Economic Papers, 2024
Refund bonuses and revenue equivalence (with Timothy Lattimer), Economics Letters, 2023
The Relative Income Effect and Labor Supply, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023
Optimal Income Taxation under Monopolistic Competition (with Alexander Tarasov), Economic Theory 2022
Loss aversion, labor supply, and income taxation, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 124, 2022.
Early refund bonuses increase successful crowdfunding (with Timothy Cason and Alexander Tabarrok), Games and Economic Behavior 129, 2021.
On Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition with Endogenous Labor (with Alexey Kushnir, Alexander Tarasov), Economic Letters 201, 2021.
Contingent Wage Subsidy, Journal of Public Economic Theory 22, 2020
Donation-Based Crowdfunding with Refund Bonuses (with Timothy Cason), European Economic Review 119, 2019
Does altruism matter for remittances? (with Alexis Antoniades, Ganesh Seshan, Roberto Weber), Oxford Economic Papers 70, 2018
Enhancing Fundraising with Refund Bonuses, Games and Economic Behavior 101, 2017 (with Timothy Cason)
Asymmetric Information about Migrant Earnings and Remittance Flows, World Bank Economic Review 31, 2017 (with Ganesh Seshan)
Optimal Grading, International Economic Review 56, 2015
The Provision Point Mechanism with Refund Bonuses, Journal of Public Economics 120, 2014
How Exposure to Markets Can Favor Inequity-Averse Preferences, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84, 2012
Research grants
Explaining 'unexplained' grade inflation in the UK's universities, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), £168'000 (with M. Dickson)
The Provision Point Mechanism with Reward Money, Swiss National Science Foundation, CHF 34'000
Agency Problems with Asymmetric Transfer Values, Forschungskredit, University of Zurich, CHF 50'000
Improved Crowdfunding to Support Public Goods, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, USD 50'000 (with A. Tabarrok, T. Cason)