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Dalhousie’s Econ department next summer!
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PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING PAPERS
[7] Optimal insurance contracts under moral hazard
[with Ralph Winter] [pdf]
Accepted, The Handbook of Insurance
[6] Monopsony Power and Upstream Innovation
[with Guillermo Marshall] [pdf] [slides]
Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 72(2), June 2024, pp. 1005–1020
[5] Equilibrium Uniqueness in Entry Games with Private Information
[with José Espín-Sanchez and Yuzhou Wang] [pdf] [Online Appendix] [slides]
RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 54(3), August 2023, pp. 512–540
[4] Early-Stage Venture Financing
[with Ralph Winter] [pdf]
Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 77, December 2022: 102291
[3] Announcing High Prices to Deter Innovation
[with Guillermo Marshall] [pdf]
Management Science, Vol. 67(4), April 2021, pp. 2448–2465
[2] Innovation and Competition: The Role of the Product Market
[with Guillermo Marshall] [pdf] [slides]
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 65, July 2019, pp. 221-247
• 2019’s IJIO Best Theoretical Paper Award.
[1] Sequential Innovation, Patent Policy, and the Dynamics of the Replacement Effect
[pdf] [Online Appendix] [slides]
RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 50(3), September 2019, pp. 568–590
WORKING PAPERS
[1] On the Interaction between Patent Screening and its Enforcement
[with Gerard Llobet and Javier Suárez] [pdf] [slides]
[2] Health Insurance Markets with Endogenous Risks
[with Vitor Luz Farinha] [pdf]
[3] Efficiency in Second-Price Auctions with Participation Costs
[with José Espín-Sanchez] [pdf]
[4] Mergers in Innovative Industries: A Dynamic Framework
[with Guillermo Marshall] [pdf]
[5] When to License Sequential Inventions [pdf]
[6] Second Price Auction with Participation Costs
[with José Espín-Sanchez and Yuzhou Wang] [pdf]
This paper was subsumed by publication [5].
WORK IN PROGRESS
[1] Herculean Equilibrium and Risk Dominance
[with José Espín-Sanchez] (in preparation)
[2] Location, Spillovers, and Patent Races
[3] Vertical Structure, Downstream innovation, and Pricing
[with Guillermo Marshall]
Contact Information
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604.822.6409 (office)
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alvaro.parra [at] sauder.ubc.ca