Research

Publications

• "Deceptive Features on Platforms," with Robert Somogyi, Economic Journal, 2024 (134) 2470 - 2493.

[Link to article] [Web Appendix] [link to presentation in Mannheim Virtual IO Seminar]

• "The Only Dance in Town: Unique Equilibrium in a Generalized Model of Price Competition," with David Ronayne, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2021 (69) 595 - 614. 

[Download].

• "Browsing versus Studying:  A Pro-Market Case for Regulation," with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi, The Review of Economic Studies, 2021 (88): 708 - 729. 

         [Download] Media Coverage: Financial Times, Independent. Short Video on the Project.

• "Dynamic Competition in Deceptive Markets," RAND Journal of Economics, 2020 (51): 375 - 401.

[Download][Web Appendix], awarded the "Young Economists' Essay Award" at the Conference of the EARIE 2018.

• "Automatic-Renewal Contracts with Heterogeneous Consumer Inertia," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2019 (28): 765 - 786. 

[Download][Web Appendix], earlier title: "Screening Procrastinators with Automatic-renewal Contracts".

• "Congestion Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach," with Philipp Heller and Sebastian Schmitz, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2019 (53): 74-98. 

[Download][Web Appendix].

Working Papers

• "Consumer Protection in Economies with Limited Attention," with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi, 2024.

[Link to article] [We appendix] 

• "Distracted from Comparison: Product Design and Advertisement with Limited Attention," with Benson Tsz Kin Leung, 2024.

         [Link to article] [Wep Appendix] 

• "Harvesting Ratings," with Robin Ng, 2024.

         [Link to article] [Wep Appendix] 

Other Publications

• "Economic Research on Loyalty Price Discrimination," (A survey written for the Competition and Markets Authority), with Paul Heidhues and Michael Rauber, 2020.

[Link to article]  

• Belleflamme, Paul, and Johannes Johnen (forthcoming). “Two-Sided Platforms,” in the Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Competition, Regulation and Antitrust, Michael D. Noel (Editor). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Draft available as "Non-Price Strategies of Marketplaces: A Survey," with Paul Belleflamme, 2023. [Link to article]