Research
Research
Job Market Paper
Tapping into Scientific Talent: The Rise of Corporate and Public R&D in Japan's Chemical Industry [Draft].
Finalist: SMS Annual Conference 2026 Best PhD Paper Prize
Published Papers
Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach [SSRN], (with Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024.
Winner, Best Proposal Award for Rigor in Research, Competitive Strategy Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society Conference 2023
Media Coverage: [Slate] [Cascade PBS]
From Perfect to Practical: Partial Identification Methods for Causal Inference in Strategic Management Research [SSRN], (with Justin Frake, Anthony Gibbs, Brent Goldfarb, Evan Starr, and Shotaro Yamaguchi). Strategic Management Journal, 2025.
Working Papers
If We Build It, We Will Come: Institution Development in Academia and the Evolution of Career Choices by Top Talent during Japan’s Industrialization [NBER], (with Serguey Braguinsky and Rajshree Agarwal). 2nd Revise & Resubmit, Management Science.
Who Becomes an Inventor? The (Important) Role of Knowledge Absorption from Higher Technical Education [Draft], (with Shotaro Yamaguchi, Serguey Braguinsky, and Chad Syverson).
Nominee: SMS Annual Conference 2025 Best PhD Paper Prize
Nominee: SMS Annual Conference 2025 Strategic Human Capital Interest Group Best PhD Paper Prize
Work in Progress
Business Expectation and Firm Performance in an Interconnected Economy, (with Atsushi Ohyama).
Academic Performance and Selection into Entrepreneurship: Science and Engineering Education during Japan's Industrialization, (with Shotaro Yamaguchi, Serguey Braguinsky, and Rajshree Agarwal).
Invited Conference and Seminar Presentations
NBER Economics of Talent Conference, Boston, United States, Oct 2026.
Academy of Management 86th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, United States, August 2026.
CCC Doctoral Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2026.
Strategic Management Society 45th Annual Conference, San Francisco, United States, Oct 2025.
Seminar at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Tokyo, Japan, Jul 2025.
Seminar at Waseda University Research Institute of Business Administration, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2025.
Strategic Management Society 44th Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct 2024.
Strategic Management Society 43rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2023.