Research
Research
Published Papers
Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach [SSRN], (with Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr). Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.
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). Revise & Resubmit, Management Science.
Who Becomes an Inventor? The (Important) Role of Knowledge Absorption from Higher Technical Education [Preliminary Draft], (with Shotaro Yamaguchi, Serguey Braguinsky, and Chad Syverson).
Work in Progress
Tapping into Scientific Talent: The Rise of Corporate and Public R&D in Japan's Chemical Industry.
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).
Presentations (Only as a Presenter)
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.