WORK IN PROGRESS
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“Bribery, temptation and self-control” (with Ajit Mishra)
“Inclusive economic outcomes and property rights” (with Joshy Easau)
“The evolution of common law with strategic plaintiffs” (with Giri Parameswaran)
“Disclosure rules, cartel formation and whistleblowing” (with Ruben Korsten)
“Plea bargaining after Lafler” (with Bryan McCannon)
“Informational and sanction avoidance bribery: substitutes or complements” (with Katherine Dix)
WORKING PAPERS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
“An empirical analysis of housing inspections” (with Jeremy Schwartz and Kerry Tan)
“Hiding, commercial interests, and cartels” (with Ruben Korsten)
“Extortion and Harassment” (with Ajit Mishra)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES (by year)
2021
“Race, poverty and the social determinants of the coronavirus divide: U.S. county-level disparities and risk factors” (with Laura J. Samuel, PhD; Darrell J. Gaskin, PhD; Antonio J. Trujillo, PhD; Sarah L. Szanton, PhD; Eric Slade, PhD) BMC Public Health (accepted June 2021).
Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent officers” (with Ajit Mishra) accepted to Scottish Journal of Political Economy (accepted August 2021).
2020
“Self-reporting and Market Structure” (with Matthew Rablen) accepted to Economica (December 2020).
“Licensing and the informal sector in rental markets: theory and evidence” (with Jeremy Schwartz and Kerry Tan), accepted to Contemporary Economic Policy (July 2020).
2019
“Optimal Regulation Under Imperfect Enforcement: Permits, Tickets or Both?" (with Fabio Mendez and Amy Farmer) forthcoming in Scottish Journal of Political Economy
“Product market competition’s effect on earnings management when audit quality is endogenous: theory and evidence” (with Jeremy Schwartz) forthcoming in Review of Law and Economics
2018
“Avoidance and the optimal burden of proof” (with Murat Mungan) forthcoming in Economics Letters
“Announced or Surprise Inspections and Oligopoly Competition" (with Emmanuel Dechenaux) forthcoming in B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
2017
“Law enforcement among endogenously (in)competent officers” (with Ajit Mishra) forthcoming in Economic Inquiry (accepted September 2017)
“A note on licenses in the presence of corruption” (with Fabio Mendez and Amy Farmer) forthcoming in Review of Law and Economics (accepted June 2017)
2016
“Preemptive bribery and asymmetric information: Does prior knowledge matter” (with Ajit Mishra) forthcoming Journal of Public Economic Theory (accepted October 2016)
2015
“Maximal fines under announced and unannounced inspections” (with Emmanuel Dechenaux) forthcoming Journal of Public Economic Theory (accepted March 4, 2015)
“Gaming the ‘system’: Interdependent networks and investment inefficiencies” (with Allison Reilly and Seth Guikema), forthcoming Decision Analysis (accepted April 27, 2015)
"Corruption and Hold-up: the role of intermediaries" (with Ajit Mishra), forthcoming in European Journal of Law and Economics, (accepted May 22, 2015).
“Cognitive Dissonance, Ethical Behavior, and Bribery”, forthcoming in Thinking about Bribery: Neuroscience, Moral Cognition and the Psychology of Bribery (eds. Philip Nichols and Diana Roberstson), Cambridge University Press.
“The effect of de-hubbing on airfares”, forthcoming Journal of Air Transport Management 50, 45 – 52 (resubmitted September 2015, accepted October, 2015).
2014
"Announced versus surprise inspections with tipping-off," (with Emmanuel Dechenaux)
"Fair trade, market failures, and (the absence of) institutions," (with Charles Scott and Fred Derrick)
"Bribery in subsidized credit markets: evidence from Bangladesh," (with Emmanuel Dechenaux and Aaron Lowen)
2012
"Resource allocation for homeland defense: dealing with the team effect," (with Seth Guikema)
"Preemptive corruption hold-up and repeated interactions," (with Emmanuel Dechenaux)
2011
"Bribery and endogeneously monitoring effort: an experimental study," (with Aaron Lowen)
"Motivating morality (old title: Game theory and moral motivation ," (with Kelly Clark)
2010
"Corruption and monitoring technology," (with Aaron Lowen)
2009
"Preemptive collusion among corruptible law enforcers," (with Aaron Lowen)