Research
Publications
Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power, 2020, Marketing Science. Volume 39, p. 996-1015, (with P. Belleflamme and W. Lam).
Revisiting Stability in One-to-One Matching Problems, 2019, Economic Theory Bulletin, 7: 59..
Antidumping as a signaling device under the WTO's ADA non-disclosure clause, 2018, Review of World Economics, 154: 649-673. (with A. Khatibi)
The intricate tale of demand and supply of personal data, 2018, Concurrences, N° 3-2018, Art. N° 87528, pp. 45-52 (with P. Belleflamme).
Endogenous Network Formation in a Tullock Contest, Mathematical Social Sciences, 2017 (with G. Grandjean and D. Tellone).
Monopoly price discrimination and privacy: The hidden cost of hiding, Economics Letters, 2016, volume 149, issue C, pages 141-144, (with P. Belleflamme).
Dominance Invariant One-to-One Matching Problems, International Journal of Game Theory, 2014, 43, 925–943, (with A. Mauleon, E. Molis & V. Vannetelbosch).
Von Neumann-Morgenstern Farsightedly Stable Sets in Two-Sided Matching, Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 6(3), September 2011. (With A. Mauleon & V. Vannetelbosch)
Collusion in Auctions: Between Bid Rotation and Efficiency, Economics Bulletin, 2011, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 714-721.
Endogenous network formation in patent contests and its role as a barrier to entry, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2011, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(4), pages 529-551, December (With Marco Marinucci)
Trade Policy in the Face of Price and Non-Price Strategies, the Portuguese Economic Journal, 2011, Springer, vol. 10(1), pages 3-21 (with A. Khatibi).
On the role of Retaliation in Trade Agreements. Journal of International Economics, 2008, Volume 76, Issue 1, p. 61-77. (with A. Martin).
Game Theory Textbook
Together with my colleague Prajit Dutta I'm writing the second edition of: Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice, MIT Press. Expected publication: 2022. First draft is available on request by sending me an e-mail at wrv13@columbia.edu
Work in progress/working papers
§ Robert Somogyi and Wouter Vergote, Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition with Capacity Uncertainty - Feasting on Leftovers, 2020, working paper. Submitted Online Appendix
§ Network formation between rivals, with G. Grandjean, 2017, working paper.
§ Two sided seller/buyer platforms with imperfect price discrimination and privacy, with Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz.
Other Publications
Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate? Message to Regulators: Fix the Economics First, Then Focus on the Right Regulation, 2019, in Delvolder, Bram (Ed), The Platform Economy. Unravelling the Legal Status of Online Intermediaries, Intersentia, p. 3-30. joint with A. Strowel.
Econometric study on parcel list prices, report prepared for the European Commission, December 2015 (with A. Claes). (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8610)
This study was featured in The Financial Times, the WSJ Europe and El Pais, among others.
Testimony on Forecasting Claims Against the Proposed National Trust (with D. Martin, P. Hinton, R. Miller and F. Sabry), NERA, US Senate, November 2005