Tobias Wenzel

Lecturer and Professor

University of Düsseldorf & DICE

Junior Research Associate

ZEW Mannheim

Research Department Digital Economy

Email: tobias.wenzel@hhu.de         

CV

• • since 10/2022: Lecturer and Professor (since 01/2024), University of Düsseldorf & DICE

  • since 10/2022: Junior Research Associate, ZEW Mannheim, Research Department Digital Economy

  • 10/2020  - 09/2022: Researcher, ZEW Mannheim, Research Department Digital Economy

  • 09/2018 - 08/2022: Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

  • 04/2015 - 08/2018: Senior Lecturer, University of Bath

  • 07/2010 - 03/2015: Assistant Professor, Düsseldorf Institute for Competion Economics (DICE), University of Düsseldorf

  • 2008 - 2010: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Erlangen - Nürnberg

  • 2005 - 2008: Doctoral Studies, TU Dortmund and Ruhr Graduate School in Economics

  • 2001 - 2005: Studies in Economics, University of Mannheim and University of Lausanne

Journal Publications

• Collusion, inattentive consumers and shrouded prices, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.

• Imperfect information about consumer rights: Implications for efficiency and distribution (with Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe), American Law and Economics Review, forthcoming.

• • More cost-sharing, less cost? Evidence on reference price drugs (with Annika Herr and Torben Stühmeier), Health Economics, 2023, 32, 413-435. 

• • Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets (with Yiquan Gu and Alexander Rasch), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 93, Article 103754. 

• • Drip pricing and its regulation: Experimental evidence (with Alexander Rasch and Miriam Thoene), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 176, 353-370. 

• • Curbing obfuscation: Empower consumers or regulate firms? (with Yiquan Gu), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, 70, Article 102582. (Working paper version)

• • Shrouding add-on information: an experimental study (with Hans-Theo Normann), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121(4), 1705-1727.

• • Focusing and framing of risky alternatives (with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 289-304.

• • Demand shifts due to salience effects: Experimental evidence (with Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Katrin Koehler and Mirjam Lange), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15(3), 626-653.

• • Consumer confusion, obfuscation, and price regulation (with Yiquan Gu), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64(2), 169-190.

• • Price-sensitive demand and market entry (with Yiquan Gu and Alexander Rasch), Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95(4), 865-875.

• • Shopping hours and price competition with loyal consumers (with Miguel Flores), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16(1), 393-407.

• • Putting on a tight leash and levelling playing field: an experiment in strategic obfuscation and consumer protection (with Yiquan Gu), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2015, 42, 120-128.

• • Partial shrouding in asymmetric markets, Economics Letter, 2015, 136, 223-226.

• • The impact of piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers (with Alexander Rasch), Telecommunications Policy, 2015, 39, 735-744.

• • Strategic obfuscation and consumer protection policy (with Yiquan Gu), Journal of Industrial Economics, 2014, 62(4), 632-660.

• • Consumer myopia, competition and the incentives to unshroud add-on information, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 98, 89-96.

• • Content provision and compatibility in a platform market (with Alexander Rasch), Economics Letters, 2014, 124, 478-481.

• • Independent service operators in ATM markets, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61(1), 26-47.

• • Naive consumers, banking competition and ATM pricing, Review of Network Economics, 2013, 12(3), 271-286.

• • Piracy in a two-sided software market (with Alexander Rasch), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 88, 78-89.

• • Price-dependent demand in spatial models (with Yiquan Gu), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12(1), Article 6.

• • Regulating advertising in the presence of public service broadcasting (with Torben Stühmeier), Review of Network Economics, 2012, 11(2), Article 1.

• • On file sharing with indirect network effects between concert ticket sales and music recordings (with Ralf Dewenter and Justus Haucap), Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25(3), 168 - 178.

• • Transparency, entry and productivity (with Yiquan Gu), Economics Letters, 2012, 115(1), 7-10. 

• • Semi-collusion in media markets (with Ralf Dewenter and Justus Haucap), International Reviev of Law and Economics, 2011, 31(2), 92 - 98.

• • Deregulation of shopping hours: the impact on independent retailers and chain stores, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113(1), 145 - 166.

• • Getting beer during commercials: adverse effects of ad-avoidance (with Torben Stühmeier), Information Economics and Policy, 2011, 23(1), 98 - 106.

• • Transparency, price-dependent demand and product variety (with Yiquan Gu), Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 216 - 219.

• • Liberalization of opening hours with free entry, German Economic Review, 2010, 11(4), 511 - 526.

• • A note on the excess entry theorem in spatial models with elastic demand (joint with Yiquan Gu), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2009, 27(5), 567 - 571. 

Working Papers

• • Complex pricing and consumer-side attention (with Christian Fischer and Alexander Rasch).

  • Endogenous prominence, maximal obfuscation, and consumer policy (with Ioana Chioveanu and Yiquan Gu).

  • Search costs in concentrated markets (with Claudia Möllers and Torben Stühmeier).

  • Business models in commercial media markets: Bargaining, advertising and mixing (with Alexander Rasch and Miriam Thoene).