Research
Information Economics
Information and Delay in an Agency Model, Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 41(3), Autumn 2010, pp. 598-615
Financing Experimentation, with Rocco Macchiavello, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 6(1), February 2014, pp. 315-49
Vague lies and lax standards of proof: On the law and economics of advice, with Marta Troya Martinez, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, vol. 28(2), Summer 2019, pp. 298-315
Bargaining with Informational and Payoff Externalities, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, vol. 30(2), Summer 2021, pp. 398-419
Score Disclosure, with Levent Celik, April 2024 (CEPR Discussion Paper No. 16707), minor revision at Economic Journal
Cheap Talk with Two Audiences: An Experiment, with Roberto Hernán-González, Praveen Kujal and Marta Troya Martinez, December 2021
Vertical Integration and Algorithm Bias, with Doh-Shin Jeon (in progress)
Older (aka shelved) papers
Learning and Microlending, with Rocco Macchiavello, September 2008 (CEPR Discussion Paper No. 7011)
An older and longer version of "Financing Experimentation" but with more results for microfinance
Ex Ante Information in Adverse Selection March 2011
Contracts with Informational Externalities May 2007
Corruption
Competition in Bureaucracy and Corruption, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 92(2), July 2010, pp. 107-114
Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment, with John Hamman and Danila Serra, Experimental Economics, vol 17(1), March 2014, pp. 78-99 [this paper is a co-winner of the Editor's prize for the best paper published in 2014]
Optimal Patronage May 2020 (CEPR Discussion Paper No. 10343)
Contest Theory
Biased Contests for Symmetric Players, with Dmitry Ryvkin, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 103, May 2017, pp. 116-144 [this paper has been selected by the Editors for the John Nash Memorial Special Issue]
How Noise Affects Effort in Tournaments, with Dmitry Ryvkin, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 188, July 2020, 105065
The Shape of Luck and Competition in Winner-Take-All Tournaments (previously Winner-Take-All Tournaments), with Dmitry Ryvkin, Theoretical Economics, vol. 15 (4), November 2020, pp. 1587-1626
Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails, with Dmitry Ryvkin, Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 190, November 2020, 105116
Hunting for the Discouragement Effect in Contests, with Dmitry Ryvkin, Review of Economic Design, Special Issue on Contests: Theory, Evidence, and Applications, August 2022.
Optimal Prizes in Tournaments Under Nonseparable Preferences, with Dmitry Ryvkin, February 2021 (this paper supersedes Optimal Prizes in Tournaments with Risk-Averse Agents)
Tournaments with a Standard, with Dmitry Ryvkin and Jun Zhang, March 2024 (an older version is CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17107)
Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck, with Margaret Meyer and Marc Möller, July 2024 (submitted)