Research
Published and forthcoming papers
Fainmesser, Itay P., Andrea Galeotti, and Ruslan Momot (2023), Digital Privacy, Management Science, 69 (6), 3157-3173 (lead article).
Finalist, MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Award 2023.
Featured article, The Management Science Review.
Media coverage: [HUB Daily] [Newswise] [Tech Xplore (Science X)] [Knowledge@HEC] [ForeignAffairs] [The Conversation] [MK (Korean)] [Kellogg Insight] [News11Paper] [Luohan On Air (podcast)] [Management Science Review]
Working paper version available here.
Fainmesser, Itay P. and Andrea Galeotti (2021), The Market for Online Influence, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13 (4), 332-372.
Media coverage: [HUB Daily] [Changing Business Magazine] [London Business School Review] [La Réclame (French)]
Fainmesser, Itay P., Dominique Lauga, and Elie Ofek (2021), Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products, Management Science, 67 (11), 7023-7045.
Working paper version available here.
Fainmesser, Itay P. and Andrea Galeotti (2020), Pricing Network Effects: Competition, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 12 (3), 1-32 (lead article).
Working paper version available here.
Fainmesser, Itay P. (2019), Exclusive Intermediation in Unobservable Networks, Games and Economic Behavior, 113, 533-548.
Accepted MS available here.
A previous version of the paper, titled Intermediation and Exclusive Representation in Financial Networks, includes results with many clients and many agents and an application to financial markets.
A version of the application to financial markets that is compatible with the published version of the paper is available here.
Fainmesser, Itay P. and David A. Goldberg (2018), Cooperation in Partly Observable Networked Markets, Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 220-237.
Accepted MS available here.
Online Appendix: Third-Party Observability and Welfare
Fainmesser, Itay P. and Andrea Galeotti (2016), Pricing Network Effects, Review of Economic Studies, 83 (1), 165-198.
Online Appendix I: Deterministic and Random Networks of Influence
Online Appendix II: General Correlation Analysis
Online Appendix III: Non-linear Pricing
Online Appendix IV: Proof of Proposition 11
Fainmesser, Itay P. (2013), Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets, Journal of Economic Theory, 148 (1), 64-103.
Accepted MS available here.
Fainmesser, Itay P. (2012), Community Structure and Market Outcomes: A Repeated Games in Networks Approach, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 4 (1), 32-69.
Fainmesser, Itay P., Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal (2009), A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings, Journal of Sports Economics, 10 (6), 582-600.
Working papers
Consumer Profiling via Information Design (with Andrea Galeotti and Ruslan Momot)
Strategic Conformity in Affiliated Marketing (with Xudong Zheng)
Work in progress
Content Transparency and Product Endorsements on Instagram (with Kevin Chung and Manuel Hermosilla)
How Influencers Affect Markets for Goods and Services (With David McAdams)