I am an Associate Professor at the University of Bern and a Vice President of the Swiss Competition Commission.
My research focuses on applied microeconomic theory, in particular the questions related to competition policy, economics of innovation and contest design.
I maintain a list of conferences (with a focus on IO and theory), including submission deadlines and links.
Email: igor.letina@unibe.ch
Startup Acquisitions: Acquihires and Talent Hoarding
- with Jean-Michel Benkert and Shuo Liu (revised July 2024)
- Slides
Research Joint Ventures: The Role of Financial Constraints
- with Philipp Brunner and Armin Schmutzler
- European Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 165, 104742
- Slides
Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies
- with Armin Schmutzler and Regina Seibel
- International Economic Review, 2024, Vol. 65(2), pp. 591-622 (lead article)
- Slides
Optimal Contest Design: Tuning the Heat
- with Shuo Liu and Nick Netzer
- Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, Vol. 213, 105616
- Best paper award, 2021 Conference of the China Information Economics Society
- Working Paper, Slides
Designing Dynamic Research Contests
- with Jean-Michel Benkert
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020, Vol. 12(4), pp. 270-289
- Working Paper, AEA Research Highlight
Delegating Performance Evaluation
- with Shuo Liu and Nick Netzer
- Theoretical Economics, 2020, Vol. 15(2), pp. 477–509
Inducing Variety: A Theory of Innovation Contests
- with Armin Schmutzler
- International Economic Review, 2019, Vol. 60(4), pp. 1757-1780
- Working Paper
Optimal Search from Multiple Distributions with Infinite Horizon
- with Jean-Michel Benkert and Georg Nöldeke
- Economics Letters, 2018, Vol. 164, pp. 15-18
- Working Paper
The Road not Taken: Competition and the R&D Portfolio
- RAND Journal of Economics, 2016, Vol. 47(2), pp. 433–460
- Online Appendix, Working Paper