Talks
My presentations at international conferences:
2023: “Finite-Length Patents and the Dynamics of Functional Differential Equations: What did Elhanan Helpman not tell three decades ago?” 29th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2023, Society of Computational Economics), Université Côte d’Azur – Nice, France, 3 – 6 July 2023.
2021: “Amortizing Securities as a Pareto-efficient Alternative to Medical Patents.” Virtual Seminar, the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, March 26, 2021.
2019: “Amortizing Securities as a Pareto-Efficient Reward Mechanism.” International Conference on Decision Economics (DECON 2019), Avila, Spain, June 26-28, 2019.
2018: “Vertical Innovation, Foreign Direct Investment and Asymmetric Imitation: A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Protection. 24th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2018, Society for Computational Economics), Milan, Italy, June 18-21, 2018.
2017: “North-South Harmonization of Intellectual Property Rights: Who Wins, Who Loses?” 27th Annual Conference on Leading Issues in Trade and Finance (International Trade and Finance Association ), Poznan, Poland, May 3-June 3, 2017.
2016: “Computing Transitional Cycles for a Deterministic Time-to-Build Growth Model.” 22nd International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2016, Society for Computational Economics), Bordeaux, France, June 26-28, 2016.
2015: “Finite-Length Patents and Functional Differential Equations in a Non-scale R&D-based Growth Model.” 21st International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2015, Society for Computational Economics), Taipei, Taiwan, June 20-22, 2015.
2013: “Switching from Patents to an Intertemporal Bounty: Transitional Dynamics and Welfare Evaluation.” 17th Annual International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (ICMAIF), Department of Economics, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece, May 30 – June 1, 2013.
2012: “Establishing an Intertemporal Bounty System for the Formation of a Global Green Economy.” Global Sustainable Finance Conference 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 5-6, 2012. [The conference was under the auspices of The World Federation of Development Financing Institutes, and endorsed by United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEPFI).]
2011: “Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Optimal Patent Life.” 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2011, Society for Computational Economics), San Francisco, June 29 – July 1, 2011. [This conference was sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.]
2010: “Patent Replacement and Welfare Gains” Workshop in Honor of Stephen J. Turnovsky, May 20 – 22, 2010, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria. [This workshop was sponsored by Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna; Society for Computational Economics (SCE); and Austrian Federal Ministry of Science.