Research

Research Fields:

Industrial Organisation, Behavioural Economics, Microeconomics

Working Papers:

"Costly Participation and Default Allocations in All-Pay Contests " with Sandro Shelegia, submitted

"Some Welfare Effects of Mandatory Refunds under Imperfect Competition", with Luke Garrod and Davina Bird, in progress

Publications:

"Automated Switching Services" with Luke Garrod and Ruochen Li, forthcoming, Economics Letters (Older version)

"Being in the Right Place: A Natural Field Experiment on the Causes of Position Effects in Individual Choice" (2022) with Mark Harris and Marco Novarese, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization vol.194, p.24-40 (Older version)

"A Generalized Model of Advertised Sales" (2021) with Sandro Shelegia, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics vol.13(1) p.195-223 (Older version)

"Price Advertising, Double Marginalisation and Vertical Restraints" (2020) with Luke Garrod and Matthew Olczak, Economics Letters vol. 196, 109600 (Older version)

"Transaction Costs as a Source of Consumer Stockpiling" (2019) with Luke Garrod and Ruochen Li, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, vol.19, 20170316  (Older version)

"False Advertising" (2018) with Andrew Rhodes, RAND Journal of Economics vol.49, p.348-369 (Older Version)

"Information Matters: A Theoretical Comparison of Some Cross-Border Trade Barriers" (2016) Information Economics and Policy, vol.37 p.52-60 (Older version)

"Nonlinear Pricing and Tariff Differentiation: Evidence from the British Electricity Market" (2014) with Steve Davies and Catherine Waddams Price, Energy Journal, vol.35, p.55-77 (Older version)

"Default Effects, Transaction Costs and Imperfect Information" (2013) with Luke Garrod and Alistair Munro, Economics Letters vol.119(2) p.213-215 (Older version)

"Market Frictions: A Unified Model of Search and Switching Costs" (2012) European Economic Review vol. 56(6) p.1070-1086 (Older version)

"Advertising, Search and Intermediaries on the Internet: Introduction" (2011) Economic Journal (Feature Introduction) vol.121 p.F291-F296

"Ordered Search and Equilibrium Obfuscation" (2010) International Journal of Industrial Organization vol.28(5) p.496-506 (Older version) [Highly cited: >150 cites at Google Scholar]

"Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier?" (2010) with Catherine Waddams Price, Oxford Economic Papers vol.62 p.647-668 (Older version) Reprinted in “Competition and Regulation in Electricity Markets” (2016), S. Eyre and M.G. Pollitt (Eds.), Elgar [Highly Cited >200 cites at Google Scholar]

Policy Reports and Other Publications:

“Policy Remedies to Improve Consumers’ Information about Product Quality: Some Brief Lessons from the Academic Literature” (2018) with Andrew Rhodes, Report on behalf of Economic Insight for the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Legal Ombudsman

“The Net Book Agreement” Chapter 4 of “The Benefits of Competition: Some Illustrative Cases” Prof. Steve Davies et al, Department for Trade and Industry Economic Paper No.9 (2004)

“How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence “ (2005) with Andrew J. Oswald, IZA Discussion Paper 1619