WORKING PAPERS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Managing Loyalties in Hierarchical Organizations
  (with Hanzhe Li, Jin Li and Luis Vasconcelos)
  Revision requested from The RAND Journal of Economics
• Noisy Signal and Information Elicitation
  (with Zijian Qi and Luis Vasconcelos)

PUBLICATIONS

• Optimal job design and information elicitation
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 57 (2026) pp. 176 - 204 (with Zijian Qi and Luis Vasconcelos)
• "Sherlocking" and Platform Information Policy
  Management Science, Vol. 71 (2025) pp. 9812 - 9830 (with Jay Pil Choi and Kyungmin Kim)
• What makes agility fragile? A dynamic theory of organizational rigidity
  Management Science, Vol. 69 (2023) pp. 3578 - 3601 (with Jin Li and Luis Vasconcelos)
• Learning to game the system
  Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 88 (2021) pp. 2014 - 2041 (with Jin Li and Luis Vasconcelos)
• Optimal certification policy, entry, and investment in the presence of public signals
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 51 (2020) pp. 989 - 1013 (with Jay Pil Choi)
• On the trade-off between efficiency in job assignment and turnover: the role of break-up fees
  Journal of Law Economics & Organization, Vol. 34 (2018) pp. 230 - 271 (with Luis Vasconcelos)
• On the optimality of diverse expert panels in persuasion games
  Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 107 (2018) pp. 345 - 363 (with Sourav Bhattacharya and Maria Goltsman)
• Relational contracts with subjective peer evaluations
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 47 (2016) pp. 3 - 28 (with Joyee Deb and Jin Li)
• Strategic information revelation when experts compete to influence
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 44 (2013), pp. 522 - 544 (with Sourav Bhattacharya)
• Star wars: Exclusive talent and collusive outcomes in labor markets
  Journal of Law Economics & Organization, Vol. 28 (2012), pp. 754 - 782 (with Luis Vasconcelos)
• Interim performance feedback in multistage tournaments: The optimality of partial disclosure
  Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 29 (2011), pp. 229 - 265 (with Maria Goltsman)
• Optimal job design in the presence of implicit incentives
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 42 (2011), pp. 44 - 69 (with Luis Vasconcelos)
• Optimal disclosure policy when firms offer implicit contracts
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 41 (2010), pp. 549 - 573
• Deregulation redux: Does mandating access to bottleneck facilities necessarily improve welfare?
  Public Choice, Vol. 142 (2010, Special Issue), pp. 363 - 377 (with Richard S. Higgins)
• Disclosure or secrecy? The dynamics of open science
  International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 27 (2009), pp. 449 - 462 (with Scott Stern)
• Career concerns, matching, and optimal disclosure policy
  International Economic Review, Vol. 49 (2008), pp. 1211 - 50
• Sustaining implicit contracts when agents have career concerns: Role of information disclosure
  The RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 39 (2008), pp. 469 - 490