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Supply and Demand of Medical Knowledge

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Estimating Endogenous Coalitional Mergers: Merger Costs and Assortativeness of Size and Specialization

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Strategic Speed Choice by High-Frequency Traders under Speed Bumps

When Populism Meets Globalization: Analysis of Tax Competition (with Daiki Kishishita). Tax competition and political agency problems, Canadian journal of Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 4, Pages: 1782-1810

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Supplier Encroachment under a Two-Part Tariff Contract and Unobservable Multilateral Contracting

An Approximation Method for Discrete Markov Decision Models with a Large State Space

Gradual Adjustment and Equilibrium Uniqueness under Noisy Monitoring

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A Characterization of Minimal Impartial Rules for Awarding Prizes

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General Equilibrium Dynamics with Naive and Sophisticated Hyperbolic Consumers in an Overlapping Generations Economy, Economica, May 2017

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A Theory of Multidimensional Information Disclosure

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Destruction of Competition by Competition Law: Evidence from Unbundling Regulation on Fiber-Optic Networks in Japan

Access to Health Infrastructure and Child Health Development: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa

The Effect of the Introduction of a Health Insurance Program on Precautionary Saving Behavior at the Household Level

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