Associate Professor & John Rau Kelley School of Business Faculty Fellow in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy (BEPP), Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Contact Information:
marpease (at) iu.edu
Publications:
"Costly Search with Adverse Selection: Solicitation Curse vs. Acceleration Blessing", with Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (May 2017), pp. 1756-2171.
"Optimal Information Design for Search Goods", with Michael Choi and Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Volume 109 (May 2019), pp. 550-556.
"Shopping for Information: The Implications of Consumer Learning for Optimal Pricing and Product Design", Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 71, Issue 3 (September 2023), pp. 883-923.
"Blind Disclosure" with Aaron Kolb, Daniel W. Sacks, and Joshua Quick, AEJ: Microeconomics, Vol. 15, No. 2 (May 2023), pp. 41-79.
"Unemployment Duration under Flexible Information Acquisition" with John Kim and Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim, International Economic Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, (February 2024), pp. 471-503.
Working Papers:
"In the Interest of Full Disclosure: Consequences of the Grand Bargain in Patenting" with Mike Andrews and Rajkamal Vasu, R&R at AEJ:Microeconomics
"Playing it Safe: Actions Attractive to the Risk Averse" with Mark Whitmeyer (previously titled "Safety, In Numbers")
"Inverting Akerlof: Quantifying Private Information in Markets for Patents" with Mike Andrews and Rajkamal Vasu
"Follow the Leader? Coordination Motives in Sequential Information Acquisition" with Mark Whitmeyer
"Advertising Auctions" with Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim
"How to Make an Action Better" with Mark Whitmeyer
Research Interests:
Economic Theory, Industrial Organization, Dynamic Games, Disclosure
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Iowa, May 2017
Advisor: Prof. Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim