Research

Areas of Research Interest:

Applied Microeconomic Theory; Industrial Organization; Digital Piracy and Copyright Violations; Patent Licensing and Technology Shelving; Competition Policy.

Working Papers and Research Projects:

1. Innovation, Licensing and Strategic Shelving (joint with Yuanzhu Lu).

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/14DAYxVuvr0OQkwZQQl4VNXyytrlVuDu5/view?usp=sharing 

Slides (AI Generated):

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ki9oWvVfagj9kthgUEqLPwTtd6iyMOFV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115020669016026701095&rtpof=true&sd=true 

"What causes the recent dominance of big firms in some industries"  - A policy relevant question of our time 

• Particularly the big tech companies, and its impact on the market and the society. 

• Consequently, the need is to reform the existing competition policies and firm regulations to let the market operate more efficiently.

• Which benefits the greater society in a more equitable way.

Policy Briefing - Innovation, Licensing and Strategic Shelving

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hapTD6ed83T6rqDEQFaGlUzQnLnioV5/edit?usp=sharing&rtpof=true&sd=true 

Policy Briefing Slides (AI Generated):

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PWLazT83qKkBt_XKVhUdCzUtSnNaMfn4/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115020669016026701095&rtpof=true&sd=true 

2. Killer Mergers in Network Goods Market (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee). 

drive.google.com/file/d/1lHQbSwDTuQ026PNwOOYH2Y_groeyVpXW/view?usp=sharing 

3. Product innovation and pro-competitive horizontal merger with network externalities (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DZBsMSnIsNjT1M4FpgsKRo4qH2KjUmUT/view?usp=sharing 

4. Patient Well-Being, Hospital-Physician Relationship under Other-Regarding Behavior (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pSekHUcTa4En7JUIwxzvX5x394y-YbWI/view?usp=sharing 

Papers under Review:

1. Technological improvement, innovation quality and anti-piracy enforcement (joint with Banerjee). Revise and Re-submit in European Journal of Law and Economics.    drive.google.com/file/d/16iwfsuoYdkr37XXrKTa8DWWk_ZVnQtB0/view?usp=sharing (Earlier version)

Recent Publications (2023-2025):

1. Optimal Incentives with Other-regarding Principal and Agents (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee) - Forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory.  

              https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpet.70066 

2. Cross Ownership and Product Differentiation (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee) – Forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Economics.  onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/caje.12759 

3. Pro-competitive horizontal merger with cost reducing investments and network externalities (joint with Banerjee and Mukherjee) – Forthcoming in Economic Theory Bulletin.  link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40505-024-00285-7 

4. Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition ((joint with Fauli-Oller and Sandonís) – Forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology.  www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10438599.2025.2484239 

5. Patent Licensing and Strategic Shelving (joint with Lu, Banerjee, and Ghosh) – Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 66, 2025.  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11151-024-09995-5 

6. Mergers and Licensing with Horizontal Differentiation (joint with Fauli-Oller and Sandonís) – Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 26, 2024.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpet.70004 

7. Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Licensing with Shelving (joint with Yuanzhu Lu). Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol 126, 2023.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016548962300077X?via%3Dihub  

8.  Optimal Patent Licensing – Two- or Three-Part Tariff (joint with S. Banerjee and A. Mukherjee). Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 25, 2023. This paper received enough downloads to rank within the top 10% of papers published in JPET.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpet.12630 

For Full List of Publications, see the page CV: