Andrew Wooders

About

I am currently a PhD student at The Kellogg School of Management. Before joining Kellogg, I completed my undergraduate studies in mathematics and economics at the University of Chicago and interned at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Pluribus Labs LLC, and MobLab Inc. My CV can be found here.

Research

My research interests are in asymmetric information and empirical industrial organization; in particular, adverse selection and moral hazard in product returns

• Mitigating Customer Returns before Checkout: The Role of Selection and Moral Hazard (Job Market Paper)

• When Your Best Customers are Your Worst: Moral Hazard and the Hidden Costs of Product Returns, with Eric Anderson and Duncan Simester

My other work is on empirical auctions

• Minimax Play at Armageddon Chess, with Todd Kaplan, Miguel Fonseca, and John Wooders

• The Impacts of Social Activism on Discrimination